Moving all our classes to “live and online” and knowing that everyone’s schedule is not as it was, we initially made the decision to capture as many students as we could by offering mostly “ALL LEVELS” classes. However, after a … Continue reading →
“Restorative Yoga is all about the relaxation response. In a culture that seems to promote and reward “doing” and “being productive” as the only “valuable” way to live, Restorative Yoga is counter-cultural, perhaps even “revolutionary”. Restorative Yoga invites “being” rather than … Continue reading →
This will be my last post on this lovely Yoga Sutra II.27. Though we are only really getting through the “5th stage of wisdom” according to Patanjali, the next two stages are more “by-products” of the previous levels and realizations. … Continue reading →
Reaching the fourth stage of wisdom, technically speaking, we have reached a stage of enlightenment, samadhi. We have realized that the Truth of our Self is separate from and undisturbed by the outer world. It is a steady light of … Continue reading →
The third stage of wisdom is control and understanding of the mind. This leads to the realization and experience of our True Self. Drawing our attention away from the external and toward the internal in stage one and discarding the … Continue reading →
The second level of wisdom according to Patanjali is the cessation of suffering. Once we turn our attention and awareness toward our own Self in the first stage, we are able to detach from the external disturbances and discard the … Continue reading →
As we look a little deeper into the 27th sutra of the second chapter of The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, it is helpful to again state that this journey is not a simple one nor one that can be achieved … Continue reading →
So, I woke this morning just wanting to see what “The Universe” might tell me to blog about today, so I did a “sutra dive” – ya know, where you just randomly open a book and see what pops out? … Continue reading →
OK, I am sure I don’t have to say it again, but The Yoga Place is now teaching classes live and online. I think I keep restating this more from my own wonder of it than anything else! Yes, it … Continue reading →
The term “sadhana” in yoga is an important one to understand. In the west we tend to translate this as “practice”, or even “disciplined practice”, but that just doesn’t seem to quite clarify the weight of this term. Especially in … Continue reading →
