Posted in Uncategorized on 25 July 2008 | 12 Comments »
For real- – what’s going on here? I always thought that for the namaste gesture or anjali mudra, you just put your palms together and that’s that. So this elbows-up thing, is it a matter of personal taste? Is it perhaps more formal, or more feminine?
Maybe you can tell whether one is a Type A [...]
Posted in YouTube, tagged mindless entertainment, Sesame Street on 23 July 2008 | 4 Comments »
This is mainly for the Pacific Northwesterners among us (and any others who may be experiencing a rainy blah Wednesday today). What the heck? It’s the middle of July! Why is it 57 degrees and cloudy?! Even for our northerly drizzle-land this is disappointing weather.
So anyway, I don’t know about you, but what I need [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cultural appropriation, privilege, racism, yoga on 21 July 2008 | 8 Comments »
I’d like to highly recommend the following commentary from Bhakti Collective to all: Yoga Journal’s Abstract Impression of Bhakti. Although the author Kaushtuba das doesn’t frame it as such, in my mind it speaks to the kind of cultural appropriation that the Western “yoga scene” is unfortunately saturated with. I’m not in any [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ashtanga, weird yoga injuries, yoga on 21 July 2008 | 1 Comment »
I think I actually broke my toe on a yoga mat. Not a brick, not a wall, not a 2×4, but a yoga mat. It takes a real spaz to pull off something like that.
The victim: my 2nd left distal phalange.
The culprit: the Eko mat.
The good news is that a somewhat broken [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ashtanga, home practice, weird yoga injuries, yoga on 18 July 2008 | 5 Comments »
To help keep me on track with my yoga in the absence of a teacher, Mr. Z devised a gold star system to reward me for good yogi behavior. Just like a little kid’s chore chart–you know, brush your teeth every morning and evening without putting up a fuss and you get a dinosaur sticker [...]
Posted in Ashtanga, Primary Series, yoga, tagged Ashtanga, Primary Series, yoga, yoga CDs on 10 July 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’m thinking about buying the above led primary CD to help keep myself “on track” when I’m practicing at home. I’m not sure whether this will be useful for my practice or if it will just be another “thing,” another object of attachment. I don’t know. I’ve never practiced with a CD or DVD- – [...]
Posted in Ashtanga, gratitude, home practice, pranayama, yoga, tagged Ashtanga, gratitude, home practice, pranayama, yoga on 8 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, BKS Iyengar posits in his explanation of the sutras on pranayama that “the implication here is clear [clear as mud] that the sadhaka who had to struggle initially to cultivate a yogic way of life by self-discipline and study, now [after the practice of pranayama] finds his [...]
Posted in Ashtanga, Primary Series, Seattle, cycling, emotions, family, home practice, life, pranayama, second series, spirituality, teacher training, yoga on 3 July 2008 | 2 Comments »
Mysore practice a few days a week combined with home practice a few days a week is one thing. All home practice all the time is going to be quite another. I’m going to have to muster up an uncharacteristic amount of will power or figure out a good system or something. [...]
