Posts Tagged: Yoga
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
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: 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: 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
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: Aparigraha
You have the right to your labor, but not to the fruits of your labor. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never become attached to not doing your duty. -Baghavad Gita 2.47
Yoga for Climate Action: Aparigraha
You have the right to your labor, but not to the fruits of your labor. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never become attached to not doing your duty. -Baghavad Gita 2.47
Yoga for Climate Action: Satya
You better take the walls of Jericho
Put your lips together and blow
Goin’ to the very top
Where the truth crystallizes like jewels in the rock – Joe Strummer
Yoga for Climate Action: Satya
You better take the walls of Jericho
Put your lips together and blow
Goin’ to the very top
Where the truth crystallizes like jewels in the rock – Joe Strummer
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