Ins and Outs of Upside Down
Since this whole “yoga on Zoom” situation has happened, so many of you have found spaces and places in your home for practice! It has been amazing to watch and follow progress in a different way than when we are … Continue reading →
Understand Your Own Potentials
Since I ended with the idea of “potentials” yesterday in my recap, I am happy that Prashant continued that thought today through the many ways we might go about “understanding our own potentials”. “Yoga is a knowledge process” that relies … Continue reading →
Devise and Customize
Starting the second weekend with Prashant Iyengar, he continued to try to clarify this idea of “starter positions” from last week. There is more than just knowing what physical condition we are in. In fact, there is a whole “culture … Continue reading →
Heavenly Trees and Celestial Dogs
Day two with Prashant Iyengar brought us to understanding the journey “from dogma to pragmatism”, from just points and actions to study and exploration. Yesterday he urged us to look at asana as not just posture, but an integration of … Continue reading →
3 Sides of a Coin
We are entering into another month of weekends with Prashant Iyengar, the son of BKS Iyengar and the consummate “philosopher” within our method. And, though I thought I would try to blog both classes together each weekend, coming out of … Continue reading →
Energy : The Storehouse and the Flow
We had our last class of the Fall Sangha with Abhijata Iyengar this morning and it was a great culmination of the sessions. As I mentioned before, the last time we met at the beginning of COVID, she insisted we … Continue reading →
Body and Mind are One
The last two days with Abhijata were chock full of goodness, with the running theme of the relationship of the body and the mind and building our holistic intelligence of action, reflection, and sensitivity through asana. For many of us, … Continue reading →
No Substitute to Sweat
Day two with Abhi continued our study of the gunas (energetic properties of Nature) within the “architecture” of asanas – and a lot of great standing asanas at that. She reminded us that yesterday we were bringing the tamasic (inert) … Continue reading →
Yoga Party!
Today was the first morning of our Autumn Sangha with Abhijata Iyengar. I hope that some of you have decided to join the “party” as she decided to call it this morning. She started by discussing the difference in approach … Continue reading →
Why Yoga? And let us Begin…
In our Yoga Sutra discussion group last Sunday we discussed the sutras in the second chapter that lead up to the 8 limbs of yoga. It was a great recap on some of the foundational philosophies of yoga and why … Continue reading →