Posts by Jennie Williford CIYT
Millionaires, Marriages, Mansions and More
It seems that yoga has been tangled up with money and love/sex affairs since it hit the shores of America in the early 1900s – with some successful and some…
Read MoreTransforming Consciousness, Transforming Matter
As we proceed through Chapter 3 of The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, we are coming to realize the power harnessed by a changing consciousness. With the integration (samyama) of concentration…
Read MoreOn Track or Off the Rails?
In Chapter 7 of The Great OOM I find myself intrigued and frankly wanting to have a replica of Bernard’s “New York Sanskrit College” in operation today! So much of…
Read MoreThe “New Normal” with Yoga
Well, here we are in summer 2021. The restrictions of COVID are easing and the sun and the temperatures are perfect to get out and explore what open society has…
Read MoreThe Many Morphs of Yoga in America
(image is the seal of the Theosophical Society) The next couple of chapters in The Great OOM are a great overview of how many forms yoga took even when it…
Read MoreLodges, Loves, and Lasciviousness
To the outsider, the downfall of Pierre Bernard seems to be an inevitable end. Even though he might have taken advantage of the mystical curiosity of the age and approached…
Read MoreA Yogi Named Perry from Iowa!
I sure hope you will join The Yoga Place in reading The Great OOM by Robert Love this summer. I have read it before, but starting it again at this…
Read MoreCalming the Waves of Consciousness
Our next meeting of The Yoga Sutra Study group will be Sunday, June 27th at 11:00am. As has been the case, it will be LIVE and ONLINE, so sign up…
Read MoreYoga – Process, Parallels, and Possibilities
Our Yoga Sutra discussion on SAMYAMA (integration) on Sunday brought up some really nice thoughts about how to approach this third chapter of The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, knowing that…
Read MoreBack to Basics! A special summer series with The Yoga Place
June 14-August 2 we will be offering an in-studio only series on “the basics” of yoga. Maybe you are completely new to the practice of yoga. OR maybe you have…
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