On Saturday took a daylong workshop with Tara Brach, a vipassana meditation teacher, and John Schumacher, an Iyengar yoga teacher. Today I want to shed some light on my first Iyengar experience and then I will share my Tara Brach experience. Sounds good? =) Iyengar is a style of yoga derived from the master B.K.S. […]
Today I was going to write about my workshop I took last weekend. But then I received a lovely little comment from Erica over at Ecstatic Adventures of the Exuberant Bodhisattva telling me that I won the Liebster award! No, not lobster, LEIBSTER, German for “favorite” or “beloved”. I felt a sweet tingle of joy […]
When I lived in Boston, my roommate and I would go to the farmers market every weekend and buy loads and loads of veggies for almost nothing. I’m talking about a huge bag of spinach for $1. A bushel of bananas for 50 cents. A pot of strawberries for $1. 5. Zucchinis for 50 cents. […]
The greatest reward of doing sadhana is that the person becomes incapable of being defeated. Sadhana is a self-victory and it is a victory over time and space. Getting up is a victory over time, and doing it is a victory over space.” – Yogi Bhajan My morning sadhana is suffering. Sadhana, according to Wikipedia, […]
Sometimes when I catch my dog staring at me with those wide innocent eyes, I almost feel bad for the guy. He has absolutely no control of when he is going to eat, when he will receive his walk, and when he will be lucky enough to get a trip to the mountains. His life […]
The word intuition has been coming up a lot for me lately. It started when my beautiful friend and aspiring life coach Sabrina wrote the following to me in an email – Your intuition is going to guide you more than your head at the end of the day anyway, so continue doing that beautiful […]
Today marks St. Patrick’s day – a day of celebration. A day where drinking green beer and wearing numerous mismatching green articles of clothing are considered normal. The four leaf clover is one of many iconic symbols of St. Patrick’s day and the reason it’s considered “lucky’ is because of it’s rarity. The odds of […]
The other day I tweeted how much I would love to have a group of friends who gather once a month to discuss philosophical/spiritual meanderings. The tweet, a lament on the difficulties of creating such a group in a small town, generated a few responses from my twitter friends expressing an interest; they too long […]
I was introduced to salamba sarvangasana maybe a month into my yoga exploration. It was in during one of those yoga styles that incorporates shoulderstand at the end of every practice as a “cooling pose”. Or so i thought. It’s easy to see why most teachers like to add shoulderstand near the end of class; […]
Following up on my past post, I want to explain why these 20 pounds mean so much to me. (Go read the post first in order to understand this one!) I want to emphasize that buying those jeans was much MUCH more than just accepting I gained a few pounds. For me, buying those jeans […]
