Posts Tagged: practice
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.
About Gaga
“We’re still trying to float, but we’re using too much effort.”
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
On the Future: A Harsh Climate for Motherhood
On some days, the door to that world seems to be closing for good. The only positive thing I can say about our vanishing possibility is this: we are no longer constrained by the unreality of political reality.
On the Future: A Harsh Climate for Motherhood
On some days, the door to that world seems to be closing for good. The only positive thing I can say about our vanishing possibility is this: we are no longer constrained by the unreality of political reality.
Try or Try Not: Yoda vs. Yoga
“Do or do not; there is no try.” Deep, false thoughts from an orientalist 70s puppet.
Try or Try Not: Yoda vs. Yoga
“Do or do not; there is no try.” Deep, false thoughts from an orientalist 70s puppet.
Yoga for Climate Action: Ishvara Pranidhana
Lord, I do fear
Thou’st made the world too beautiful this year;
Yoga for Climate Action: Ishvara Pranidhana
Lord, I do fear
Thou’st made the world too beautiful this year;
Yoga for Climate Action: Svadyaya
Je me sens coupable parce que j’ai l’habitude
C’est la seule chose que je peux faire avec une certaine certitude
-Lhasa de Sela
Yoga for Climate Action: Svadyaya
Je me sens coupable parce que j’ai l’habitude
C’est la seule chose que je peux faire avec une certaine certitude
-Lhasa de Sela
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 for Climate Action: Santosha
I can decide what I give
But it’s not up to me what I get given
Unthinkable surprises about to happen
But what they are…
It’s not up to you
Well it never really was
-Bjork
Yoga for Climate Action: Santosha
I can decide what I give
But it’s not up to me what I get given
Unthinkable surprises about to happen
But what they are…
It’s not up to you
Well it never really was
-Bjork
Yoga for Climate Action: Saucha
Lying in a bathtub, holding to the sides
Frozen in the steam and everything to hide
Deep in the bathtub, make it good and hot
Make it hot enough to wash everything off
-Mark Sandman
Yoga for Climate Action: Saucha
Lying in a bathtub, holding to the sides
Frozen in the steam and everything to hide
Deep in the bathtub, make it good and hot
Make it hot enough to wash everything off
-Mark Sandman
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