Posts Tagged: Svadyaya

New Year’s Wishes

This Rilke poem had been banging around my head since I’d been home, and I drew it out with a wish for better days for you and me.

New Year’s Wishes

This Rilke poem had been banging around my head since I’d been home, and I drew it out with a wish for better days for you and me.

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 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

Breaking Free by Getting Jailed in Whiting, Indiana

My arrest didn’t feel like a risk, it felt like a transaction. It was a transaction I felt called to make, but it doesn’t feel like the most meaningful step I’ve taken against the climate crisis.

Breaking Free by Getting Jailed in Whiting, Indiana

My arrest didn’t feel like a risk, it felt like a transaction. It was a transaction I felt called to make, but it doesn’t feel like the most meaningful step I’ve taken against the climate crisis.

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.

Small Matters 1: How I Tell Myself What to Do

When I put a restriction on myself, I’d better be fully on board with it.

Small Matters 1: How I Tell Myself What to Do

When I put a restriction on myself, I’d better be fully on board with it.

Yoga of Climate Action: Yama and Niyama

Often seen as a list of dos and don’ts… the yamas and niyamas are actually descriptions of a nature that has been freed from the illusion of separateness. –Donna Farhi

Yoga of Climate Action: Yama and Niyama

Often seen as a list of dos and don’ts… the yamas and niyamas are actually descriptions of a nature that has been freed from the illusion of separateness. –Donna Farhi