Tag: health
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July Theme — Binds, Self-Adjustments & Feeling at Home in Your Body
This month in class, we’re exploring binds and self-adjustments as ways to feel more connected to our bodies. A bind can be physical: your hand reaching for your foot, your arms wrapping behind your back. I also like to thing of them as something that can be more be subtle, an internal action, like gently…
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June Theme — Vitality from the centre
A month to remember your source of strength — and return to it again and again. As summer approaches its height, there’s a noticeable shift in the quality of light and in the way life begins to pulse more brightly. The sun lingers a little longer, the earth ripens, and everywhere we look, there are…
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On rejecting a life ruled by sensation… Yoga and the phantom of feeling
“The cultivation of sensations implies an egoism which revolts me… One lives among phantoms, dreaming instead of living.” — Simone Weil “The life of sensation is the life of greed.” — Annie Dillard Sthira sukham asanam — Patanjali Yoga Sutras II.46 (Posture should be steady and comfortable.) The matter of sensation has, for me at…
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On learning to love inversions…
Learning to Love Inversions If you’re new to yoga and the idea of going upside down makes your stomach flip — you’re not alone. For those of us without a background in gymnastics or aerial anything, inversions can feel disorienting, uncomfortable, or downright scary. We’re used to seeing the world from a certain perspective, and…
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