Posts Tagged: Asana
Touch and Consent in the post-COVID yoga classroom
The pandemic has caused us asana instructors to take a mandatory break from touching students. Those of us who are fortunate enough to still be teaching —whether online or in person— have had to refine our language, educate our eyes, improve our demonstrations; in sum, to rely on tools other than touch to instruct. Now is a good time to take stock of what we have been doing with touch in our classrooms, and if/how/to what extent we want to bring it back.
Touch and Consent in the post-COVID yoga classroom
The pandemic has caused us asana instructors to take a mandatory break from touching students. Those of us who are fortunate enough to still be teaching —whether online or in person— have had to refine our language, educate our eyes, improve our demonstrations; in sum, to rely on tools other than touch to instruct. Now is a good time to take stock of what we have been doing with touch in our classrooms, and if/how/to what extent we want to bring it back.
The Middle Path: Yoga for Hypermobility
When you are master of your limbs and of your concentration, you will delight in meditation and in solitude.
– Dhammapada v362
The Middle Path: Yoga for Hypermobility
When you are master of your limbs and of your concentration, you will delight in meditation and in solitude.
– Dhammapada v362
Yoga for Climate Action: Tapas
In the coming years, we will need to hold onto a complex hope that never forgets the damage being done, and keeps sight of the huge number of people stepping up to fix it.
-May Boeve
Yoga for Climate Action: Tapas
In the coming years, we will need to hold onto a complex hope that never forgets the damage being done, and keeps sight of the huge number of people stepping up to fix it.
-May Boeve
Yoga and the Art of Lower Back Maintenance
We do not have to transcend the ‘world of dust’ (saha) in order to go to some dust-free world called nirvana. Suffering and nirvana are of the same substance. If we throw away the world of dust, we will have no nirvana.”
–Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching
Yoga and the Art of Lower Back Maintenance
We do not have to transcend the ‘world of dust’ (saha) in order to go to some dust-free world called nirvana. Suffering and nirvana are of the same substance. If we throw away the world of dust, we will have no nirvana.”
–Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching
Yoga for Climate Action: Asteya
The big wheel keeps on turning
On a simple line day by day
The earth spins on its axis
One man struggle while another relaxes
-Hymn of the Big Wheel: Massive Attack
Yoga for Climate Action: Asteya
The big wheel keeps on turning
On a simple line day by day
The earth spins on its axis
One man struggle while another relaxes
-Hymn of the Big Wheel: Massive Attack
Yoga for Climate Action: Ahimsa
“I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political minds in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.” –Albert Einstein
Yoga for Climate Action: Ahimsa
“I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political minds in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.” –Albert Einstein
Yoga for Scheuermann’s Kyphosis
Scheuermann’s Kyphosis, or Scheuermann’s Disease, is a relatively benign spinal abnormality that develops during adolescence, and can lead to back pain.
Yoga for Scheuermann’s Kyphosis
Scheuermann’s Kyphosis, or Scheuermann’s Disease, is a relatively benign spinal abnormality that develops during adolescence, and can lead to back pain.
Animal First, Citizen Second: Talking the Bodily Politic with Nance Klehm
‘Dirty activist’ and Illinois native Nance Klehm has built a life’s work grounded in the belief that there is no outside of the natural world, whether it’s our soil, water, or our own human nature.
Animal First, Citizen Second: Talking the Bodily Politic with Nance Klehm
‘Dirty activist’ and Illinois native Nance Klehm has built a life’s work grounded in the belief that there is no outside of the natural world, whether it’s our soil, water, or our own human nature.
Cornel West and BKS Iyengar: joy, suffering, and moral constipation
“In order to achieve the integrity and wholeness we desire, there must be communication from the inner to the outer and the outer to the inner as each sheath blends with the next. “
Cornel West and BKS Iyengar: joy, suffering, and moral constipation
“In order to achieve the integrity and wholeness we desire, there must be communication from the inner to the outer and the outer to the inner as each sheath blends with the next. “
Yoga Practice: the Koshas
This pool of awareness is where contradictions can float side by side without troubling the surface.
Yoga Practice: the Koshas
This pool of awareness is where contradictions can float side by side without troubling the surface.
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