Refining And Re-calibrating Your Yoga Practice
BY DAVID GARRIGUES “Dear David, I’ve fallen off the yoga wagon. Please help!” I bet you are being too hard on yourself. Try…
BY DAVID GARRIGUES “Dear David, I’ve fallen off the yoga wagon. Please help!” I bet you are being too hard on yourself. Try…
BY SONYA GENEL I have heard many interpretations of the Sanskrit word Sankalpa. It roughly translates to “will, purpose, or determination” but I believe…
BY KAREN PALLISGAARD Now, I’m from the West, where new branches of yoga, ranging from spinning-yoga to freaking beer yoga emerge all the…
BY ABIGAIL TAMSI When I decided to stay in a Yoga Ashram for a week, I initially intended to get away from the…
BY KAREN PALLISGAARD Have you noticed the rise of hatred? Have you seen the spread of darkness? Do you hear the old imperialistic…
BY KAREN PALLISGAARD Ever started quivering or shaking when you met a certain someone, feeling electric when you hugged and sensed all your…
Reflect on your experience, examine the situations when you felt a sense of lack in terms of the resources you hold most dear. Ask yourself what lies under the feeling, then what lies under that feeling, and under that feeling.
Rather than a mantra of escapism, the out-breath could, if we allow it, take with it our resistance of the Shadow Goddesses; the dark emotions that ask us to willingly dwell in spaces of discomfort and pain.
Thank you to all the forces of freedom in my life that have held my hand here. Thank you for the many years that I struggled, numbing my lungs and my body, thinking that was freedom.
The antidote to the poison of spirit-centeredness is the tireless validation of your beauteous body, raw sexuality, sacred work, and changeable identity however you conceive it to be right now, in this moment.