April 4, 2024 - We focus on the two meanings of yoga. Yoga is a state of being where you are connected to your most perfect self, and yoga is also the practice you are doing to get you to that state of being. Cool, eh.

April 3, 2024 - Anywhere you are you can make that space your meditation hall, even in your living room doing yoga. :-)

April 2, 2024 - We find the experience of yoga in class today...yoga being both the practice and the result of the practice.

April 1, 2024 - Today we look at the practice as a fresh beginning, referring to the 1st sutra of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - "Now, We Begin the Practice of Yoga."

3.20.24 - Gratitude is an incredibly powerful tool for mental health.

Mar. 19, 2024 - A foundational idea of yoga philosophy is that all the light that is available is already inside of you. All you need to do is "open your eyes" and see it. :-)

March 18, 2024 - In yoga philosophy, a common idea is that wherever you are is a good starting point. That means if you are distracted, focused, happy, said, flexible...whatever, that is a good place (the best place!) to begin.

March 15, 2024 - Today's class we have another poem to consider.

PREFERENCE, by Mira
Stuck with another moment
How should we pass it?

If anything worked for you before ---
I'd give that preference.

March 13, 2024 - Today's class is based on this poem:
A man
standing on two logs in a river
might do all right floating with the current
while humming in the
now.
Though
if one log is tied to a camel,
who is also heading south along the bank - at the same pace-
all could still be well
with the
w...

March 12, 2024 - Having an intention for practicing can be helpful. You might not notice any type of difference from your practice immediately. With an intention you are setting the direction and purpose of your practice over the long-term.

Feb. 9, 2024 - In yoga there is a lot of time spent on alignment. In general, this means to align your body so you are safe in a posture. There is a deeper alignment that is aligning to your own light.

Feb. 12, 2024 - One things that is great in terms of the yoga practice, is how it helps you maintain the spaciousness of the body.

Feb. 13, 2024 - What is great about a yoga class is that you can get what you need from the experience, whether it's physical, mental, or emotional.

Feb. 14, 2024 - Today is a good day to open your arms like wings of the heart. :-)

Feb. 15, 2024 - One of the great things about practicing yoga is that you can leave behind everything else. Taking time to experience a foundational idea of yoga from the Sutras of Patanjali, to "calm the fluctuations of the mind." Today we'll take time and let go of all the other stuff. It's lik...

Feb. 16, 2023 - In Bakti yoga, silence is thought to be a way to connect to the underlying current of Love. A way to think of it that Love is what everything is built on, and so when you find quiet, you are finding that background energy of Love. It's a really sweet idea, and, whether it's Love o...

Feb. 20, 2024 - In Bhakti Yoga, the yoga of Love, there is a sutra that says "It reveals itself in an able vessel." What this means is the love reveals itself if you are open to it. Isn't that nice. :-)

Mar. 11, 2024 - Today's class is based on a poem "Tenderly" by St. John of the Cross.

Tenderly,
I now touch all things,
knowing some day we will part.

Feb. 8, 2024 - It is great to think about living every moment of every day with a yoga perspective. In reality, that isn't really something is achievable, or maybe even possible. Instead, it's wonderful to spend this one hour doing the practice, and thanking yourself for it. :-)

Feb. 7, 2024 - It can be difficult to "control" what is going on in the mind, because the mind is complicated.

Feb. 6, 2024 - One of the things about yoga is that it opens up to the unknown about yourself, exposing ourselves to our ourselves.

Feb. 5, 2024 - Nice to think of yoga as sunshine, even on cloudy days.

Feb. 2, 2024 - The joy of yoga is that it is a deep, subtle experience.

Feb. 1, 2024 - There is cool idea in yoga that to rise up in a posture, you need to root down.