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A Yoga Teaching: Ahimsa (non-violence)

In a previous post, I wrote about reacting from ego rather than responding from calm abiding and clear seeing. An everyday example of ego’s reactivity

YOGA ACTIONS for Headless Sirsasana

Sirsasana or Headstand is referenced as the King of Asanas because of its many benefits. Turning ourselves upside down promotes both physiological and psychological health.

A Yoga Teaching: Immortality

We are spiritual beings on a human journey. Yogis learn that their “beingness” comprises three bodies — gross, subtle, and causal. Within these bodies are

YOGA ACTIONS for Supta Baddha Konasana

In a stress-filled world challenged with increasing levels of anxiety and depression, restorative yoga is a boon to the mind, body, and spirit. Supta Baddha

A Yoga Teaching: Pleasure vs. Happiness

A primary teaching of yoga holds that true happiness, referred to as bliss or joy, comes from within. That is to say, no external thing,

YOGA ACTIONS for Uttansana

Our back body is not easily seen unless we look in a mirror. Unfortunately, what is hidden from our eyesight can also be lost to

A Yoga Teaching: Better, Worse, Different

Yogis embrace this simple truth about all change — first, it gets better; then it gets worse; then it ‘gets’ different. In its simplicity, change

YOGA ACTIONS for Niralamba Sarvangasana

Our nervous system is comprised of the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic systems. When we react to daily events with a fight-or-flight response, we are operating within

A Yoga Teaching: Soul Consciousness

Those on the yoga path often hear from our teachers that we are human beings on a spiritual journey. However, as that journey progresses and

YOGA ACTIONS for Natarajasana

Yoga, as a body-mind-spirit practice, aims to integrate samadhi, the state in which the whole being comes into presence. The yogi’s challenge is translating this

A Yoga Teaching: Conquering Time

Last night, I watched Francis Ford Coppola’s new film, Megalopolis, in which the protagonist can stop time. In Yoga Sutra III.53, BKS Iyengar comments on

YOGA ACTIONS for Vrksasana

Often a change of seasons can bring forth a sense of instability and imbalance as we find ourselves experiencing different circumstances. Rather than reacting with