Brahmacharya in yoga is a concept of non-excess and when considered under the guise of food, it can be tricky. So I began to explore this relationship with myself to find more balance and within it I was able to make my body a more comfortable place to live. 

This is probably the posture I spend the most time on because it gets SO exaggerated from asking people to bend their backs in ways that are often not good for the back.

My friend was listening attentively and replied simply, ‘They sound like an energy vampire.’

Whoa.

Take the twist out of the arm and into the spine where it belongs!

she said, ‘Excuse the mess, but I live here.’ It’s funny, her apartment wasn’t messy, but I loved how she honored her own humanity.

But so often, without regular assists, or in the event the person is practicing from home, this often goes unchecked.

Gary Vaynerchuk often says to win you need to fall in love with failing. Failing to him is a way forward into success, that you can’t succeed by being afraid of failing.

Shoulder tight from sitting? Try this simple shoulder opener from anywhere.

Once you started, it never stopped, you took pauses, but these pauses are the truth inside the practice.

I think my generation is skeptical of perfection. It was this thing we pretended to be when we posed for photos or showed up to a school event.

We host a few things during that time and I always feel the push of getting everything looking perfect.

Since then, I’ve often wondered if quiet is becoming a commodity.

My husband does this thing when he’s overwhelmed, he starts to romanticize a place where he was more comfortable.

There is a yoga technique rooted in the Samkyha philosophy which guides a person from a very deep, internal awareness and then begins to add pieces until the student is completely out of their body and intimately aware of the entire planet.

Your attention is the new currency.

You might encounter someone who vrittis are very obvious in the way they present themselves. And you yourself may be impacted by their energy.

Last weekend during an event, I had one person say they had a hard time focusing on the practice and another person say that was the first time they have ever been so focused in a practice. Two very different experiences in the exact same class.

The yoga practice is a class that teaches about tools to work on that shiftiness inside.

In Europe, people have to travel to other countries to see the different topographies and in the US, we don’t.

We already had quite a few gentle offerings and I was wondering if there wasn't a demand for something more challenging.