Tag: pratyahara

The Yoga of Self-Realization — Training the 5 Senses

Our five physical senses — taste, touch, sight, sound, and smell — are constantly attempting to seduce us along a path of pleasure pursuit and pain avoidance. Not to say either of these directions is good or bad in themselves.…

Helen Maupin

Easing into Pincha Mayurasana (Forearm Balance)

Poet, Czeslaw Milosz, queried What good is poetry if it cannot save nations or people?   I would add, or planet, and pose the same question with regard to yoga.  What good is yoga if it cannot save nations or people…

Helen Maupin

Shapeshifting with Yoga

On August 17, I teach my annual five-day yoga retreat. This whole-being intensive is meant to build capacity and release tension by tapping into every bodily system or sheath — physical, energetic, mental-emotional, spiritual including our bliss or joy. This…