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Read moreMaking friends with the cold
As we enter into Winter Number Two of Who Knows What, let us help you find support and inspiration from an accessible, refreshing, mindful practice.
Read moreHow do we know what we know?
Yoga offers insights into consciousness that help us sort our present world perceptions. With discernment and equanimity, we can avoid sliding into habitual negativity and misunderstanding.
Read moreGiving Thanks Through Yoga
In between festive meals, fire pit gatherings, or the beautiful quiet of solitude, treat yourself to a solo practice, or share your yoga with any friends or family present in your home.
Read moreGratitude
Heading into our second Covid-Times Thanksgiving, gratitude might seem abundant one moment and elusive the next.
Read moreMorning light
Early mornings can be sacred moments, wholly suspended in time, without the weight of technology, the volume of society, or the pressure of scheduled time.
Read moreLife is a balancing act
As we hone our skills to stand on one foot, to stretch for strength, to exhale at least as much as we inhale, we can keep our eyes and ears open for ways to live in balance during a time that seems anything but steady.
Read moreIt's easy to find a good teacher at Sun & Moon
A good yoga teacher nurtures a community of explorers, breathers, embodiers, and embracers of life, of self, of spirit.
Read moreCome Stretch With People Again
As caretakers of this diverse and storied tradition, 21st century yoga practitioners also have their hands full. We’re reckoning with social, economic, environmental, and political upheaval in the not-unrelated midst of a 20-month-old pandemic that has its fingerprints in all aspects of life.
Read moreShall We Dance?
Whether we feel it or not, we are always dancing. Next time the self-critical creep of laziness leaps to mind, get wise to its misinformed ways. Grant yourself permission to sit still, or lie on the ground, or wander aimlessly on a wooded path, and allow yourself to feel the inner dance of simple life
Read moreSharing the burden and the bounty
Though illness (and its remedies) is often treated as an individual experience, the pandemic's persistent interruption to our lives in 2021 is monumentally larger than any one person, and its shared collective burdens are significant.
Read moreWe're full of welcomes and gratitude this fall
Welcome to the taste of a cool, crisp morning. Gratitude for sunshine and breathable air. Welcome to new beginnings and hope for brighter seasons ahead. Gratitude for vaccines and masks to keep ourselves and each other safe and healthy.
Read moreSavoring the last bits of summer
Living in the mid-Atlantic region, we have the gift of defined seasons and their quarterly lessons in impermanence. A mainstay of this lesson is the reminder to appreciate what is, rather than wishing for what was or what's to come.
Read moreBreathing Through a Big Change
Like a chrysalis that quietly grows eyes, legs, and wings for its transformation, our vibrant Fairfax community is poised to make a graceful butterfly's landing in a new Fairfax City home in 2022. It is there that we will once again—safely and compassionately—come together in person to practice, celebrate, and honor the lessons of impermanence, non-attachment, and gratitude.
Read moreWe're Like Fireflies
The quiet space of contemplative ease is like a sturdy oak tree, standing in patient wait for us to land and soak in its magnificence.
Read moreCome see us on Langston Boulevard!
Wellness doesn't stop at our private garden gate. The pain and suffering of one among us is the responsibility of all of us.
Read moreLet Freedom Ring
Practicing non-attachment means remaining undefined by time, space, or external circumstance. It is a state of unconditional freedom that allows our deepest self to fly gracefully on the wings of impermanence as they take us to heights of sorrow and peaks of joy, sometimes in the same day.
Read moreBeyond the Binary
This week we noted the summer solstice, honoring the longest stretch of sunshine, while large swaths of the country across the south and the west wither under scorching heat, a flame lit and fanned by unbridled consumption and disregard for the decades-old warnings of climate science.
Read moreA common purpose
I spent last Saturday helping my dear friend Suzanne Morgan build a meditation labyrinth at her West Virginia yoga and healing center, Moon Meadows Farm. A group of us gathered on the hottest day of the year, hydrated and sunscreened, and set to work. We carted, lugged, lifted, placed, and blessed over 2,000 rocks in a 96-foot spiral path that sits in a meadow's clearing at the edge of a tree line in the Shenandoah Valley. The Blue Ridge mountains rose gloriously in the distance, reminding us where those rocks were born.
Read moreBeing Open
While many of us have continued posture and breathing yoga practices to help us feel open throughout the pandemic, the felt sense of "openness" seems even more accessible when the broader environment mirrors it.
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