+ Everyday Yoga Blog +

A web log centered on my personal Yoga studies.
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Last Update: Thu Jun 18 22:17:01 2009

+ Practice and Teach + Jai Bhagwan! Ah, I very cleverly forgot to mention a few ah ha moments from last night.  The first is that without [...] breakthrough, however, was realizing one very good reason why it is important to teach rather than to practice with one's st...

+ Teaching You, Teaching Me + Jai Bhagwan! Last night was my first opportunity to teach since returning from Florida.  When I finally returned home, [...] time to practice briefly by myself and to re-center myself as a teacher as well as a student.  Soon it was time to bri...

+ Reluctant Reality + Jai Bhagwan! I like food; in fact, you could say that I can't live without it.  Some of my favorite foods include [...] vegetarian based—not completely vegetarian as eggs were part of many meals—which worried me some that such a chan...

+ Graduation + Jai Bhagwan! Yesterday was our graduation ceremony.  It is somewhat of a misnomer as we are not yet graduated but it was [...] photos, it would be easy to arch an eyebrow and ask, Did they all drink the kool-aid?  On the one hand, yes, we all dran...

+ Satsang + Jai Bhagwan! What a marvelous day!  Morning sadhana was led by Kamini, Gurudev's daughter, and the focus was on [...] last night worked wonders, I still woke up at 04:00 but I slept soundly and felt wonderful!  On the flip side, I was concer...

+ Drinking From the Firehose + Jai Bhagwan! Yoga is union.  We often consider this to mean just the unification of body, mind and spirit; all three [...] states.  Consider now a tray of ice cubes.  If we dump that tray of ice cubes into a bowl, they now form a bowl ...

+ Best Laid Plans + Jai Bhagwan My intention was to write a long expose today; however, I've been taking pictures and studying—I'm a bit [...] slow connection.  That being the case, we'll all have to be content with continued short excerpts until I return home.

+ Note for the Day + Jai Bhagwan! The stiffness is setting in nicely now, two hours of practice plus extended holding of poses during classes will [...] through the homework to be done between going home and coming back in September...it's going to be a busy busy summer! ...