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Using the Breath to Support the Practice
Sept 13, 2022 - Today we focus on using the breath as an underlying anchor to support the physical practice.
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Let Thoughts go Like Leaves on a River
Sept 12, 2022 - Today we do a backbend class while we let the thoughts in our mind pass, like leaves floating down and away on a river.
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The Most Relevant is Experience that is Direct Experience
On Jane and my motorcycle trip this summer, we had people tell us various roads we should and shouldn't take. In the end, our own experience was really the thing that mattered, not other people's input. That's true in yoga as well. Your direct experience is what matters most.
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Movement as Meditation
Sept 7, 2022 - In today's class we focus on experiencing the body as mediation. Holding postures for longer and more deeply experiencing being present with the body, and doing a short meditation near the end of the practice to see how it effected our minds, bodies, and hearts. I think you'll en...
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Finding Truthfulness is a Practice
Sept 6, 2022 - One of the practices is yoga is "satya" - which means truthfulness. What I've come to recognize is, like everything in life, truthfulness isn't black and white and you can struggle with it. Today we consider truth as we practice.
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Non-harming in thought, word, and deed
Sept. 5, 2022 - Ahimsa is a Sanskrit word meaning non-harming or non-killing. Of course, I think we all do our best to practice this is deed...but to fully practice Ahimsa you also want to do it with non-harming words and deeds. Let's try it out for practice today and see how it goes. :-)
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Misconception of the world isn't helpful
Sept 2, 2022 - In the Sutras of Patanjali, the first part of the book is about how you want to calm the fluctuations of the mind, but there are things that get in the way of that. One of them is misconception. I realize this is something everyone does. It happens all the time. In class we'll ...
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The Breath Helps Remove Mental Obstacles
Sept 1, 2022 - In the "Sutras of Patanjali," it says that by concentration on one thing you can remove mental obstacles. Today, we'll focus on the breath and see how it goes. :-)
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The physical practice of yoga is helpful for calming the mind. :-)
August 31, 2022 - According to the "Sutras of Patanjali," doing the physical practice of yoga (asana), can help to settle the mind. Back in the day, the idea of yoga was more centered on meditation and finding a calmer mind. It was found that moving the body can help with that. With that focus...
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Opening to Someone New
August 30, 2022 - After riding a motorcycle around the country for 97 days, I realize that I don't have to come back to what was, I can be something new. Today, we'll focus on letting go of the old and opening to being someone new.
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Balance Your Breath, Body and Mind
August 29, 2022 - Today we practice finding balance in all aspects of the practice.
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Creating A Fishbowl For Yourself to Find Freedom
August 23, 2022 - I saw a TED Talk Video by Barry Schwartz called "The Paradox of Choice." It's all about the idea that more choice is actually worse for you, and actually it's helpful to limit choices. He showed a funny slide of two fish in a fish tank, with one fish saying to the other, "You ca...
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Seeing the Good in America
August 22, 2022 - We just returned from riding motorcycles across the US for the last 97 days. A big take away is there is good everywhere.
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Senses In Yoga, and Motorcyles
Yoga, like riding a motorcycle, can be an sensory experience. Enjoy!
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Finding Yourself In Your Practice
It's nice to think of the yoga practice as creating your own safe space you can escape to. We do that today.
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Hope and the Kentucky Derby
The amazing victory at the 2022 Kentucky Derby is a reminder of what hope and belief and can.
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Take Refuge In the Body
It's nice to remember that we are traveling in this vehicle that we can escape into when we need a break from it all.
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Your Body as Your Meditation Hall
In today's class we use the body as our focus of meditation.
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Thoughts Like Leaves on a River
Today we consider viewing the mind like a river, and thoughts like leaves floating down the river.
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Escaping Into Yoga
Today we escape into our yoga practice, finding our octopus' garden beneath the waves.
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Adventure As I See It
We will soon be heading on a motorcycle book tour promoting Jane's book "Spirit Traffic." One thing about the book readings Jane does is ask the audience to share a story, with the theme "Adventure As I See It." It's been great hearing these stories, and it really has opened me up to the questi...
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Throwback to My First Yoga Style - Ashtanga
When I first started yoga I started with Ashtanga. We'll do a shortened version of the "primary series" today.
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Be With How You Are
Today we enjoy being with how we are in our mind, body and heart.
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Yoga is Like Brushing Your Teeth
A good way to think of yoga is like you think about brushing your teeth. You do it every day, you know it's a good idea, and you feel better after doing it. Low pressure, high rewards. :-)
