Enjoy this four-minute clip from class with Amir, where he invites you to "juggle" your nervous system as you gently stretch fascia in the front body.
Read moreThe Calm At The Center Of The Challenge
A great benefit of yoga asana practice is the demand it poses to the mind-body system to counteract the habitual ways we use our bodies. Often, habit comes without heed, and mindless movement is a certain gateway to stress, strain, or injury.
Read moreTopsy, Turvy, and Tranquil
Human beings are not that different from trees and water when it comes to being at the mercy of a fragile ecosystem. As the only element of nature with the gift of consciousness, however, we have a unique opportunity.
Read moreIn A Digital World, Take Care Of Your Analog Self
Relative to the universe, we are infinitely small; relative to our loved ones, we are greatly treasured; and relative to the earth and its cycles, we are in constant flux.
Read moreWellness Is A Group Project
Whether we're putting on a mask to protect ourselves and others from illness; meditating regularly so we engender kindness, patience, and compassion; or waking up to social inequities and our ability to enact change, each one's individual existence is emphatically intertwined with every other one's.
Read moreInsight Yoga Intensive with Sarah Powers This Summer
Sarah will guide us through three streams of study: the active stillness of yin yoga, the energizing mobility of yang asana practice, and the deep inquiry and insight that can come from meditation.
Read moreA True Start
The perennial New Year's Resolution is getting a makeover, and I'm glad for it. The old look was hard to keep up with, swathed in an attitude that we weren't good enough last year, so we better kick it up this year; we all know how that turned out. By February, we were exhausted and demoralized, and whatever habits we were seeking to change tended to creep back in, leaving many with the feeling that the new year got off to a false start.
Read moreTake the practice home this year
One of the most rewarding elements of a yogic lifestyle is establishing a home practice, but getting started can be intimidating!
Read moreLive your yoga values in 2023
While yogic practice may create a temporary cocoon of comfort, ultimately it is about increasing our comfort with discomfort and standing in the values of truth, love, service, peace, and reducing the suffering of all beings.
Read moreHappy New Year
We send you our most sincere wishes for happiness, peace, and relief from suffering as the new year dawns. May it be a bright and healthy 2023 for all!
Read moreLaser focus yields big energy
This phenomenon of sharply focused attention yielding a surplus of energy is the opposite of our social programming, which tells us to divide attention in multi-tasked directions, to push beyond our comfort zones, to go big or go home, but all this external focus can leave us frustrated, anxious, and depleted, much like the state of Earth itself.
Read moreThe Sound of Inner Silence
A study on the effects of singing bowls on mood, anxiety, tension, pain and well-being found that participants reported significantly less tension, anger, fatigue, and depressed mood, and a marked increase in spiritual well-being.
Read moreSpontaneous Gratitude
Through mindful practice, we can find an intangible, unexpressed part of consciousness that can keep us grounded and awake to subtle forms of wisdom and understanding. It may guide skillful response to agitation and annoyance, it could help us find space for self-care, and in the presence of hate or anger, it has the potential to tell us whether to walk away or confront with courage.
Read moreMake It a No-Stress Season
If you're already feeling stressed about the uptick of social activity and demands on your time for the next six weeks, here's a three-part invitation to put it into some yoga postural perspective, keeping the days "holy" and your mood balanced.
Read moreInhale, Exhale, Vote!
Individual wellness is inextricable from collective wellness, and collective wellness depends on a system of government that ensures each individual is valued, cared for, and given a voice. Democracy is our system, and it needs our engagement more than ever.
Read morePodcast Alert!
Uplifting, easy-going, thought-provoking conversations about practicing and teaching yoga, living and loving mindfulness and meditation, and breathing and being in challenging times.
Read moreCalibrating Courage
Each of us is a finely-tuned individual being, with a custom calibrated courage meter, which makes it pointless to judge the guts someone else needs for a task at hand. There’s also no point in judging ourselves.
Read moreMaking Simple, Happy Habits
If we view meditation and contemplative practice as opportunities to turn the skill of thought-quieting into a reflexive habit that doesn't require much effort, like the mundane chores of daily life, we can become adept housekeepers of the heart and mind.
Read moreYou Might Need A Butterfly Hug Right Now
Try this simple hack for moments of anxiety and overwhelm
Read moreWeathering Storms Together
Our hearts and minds are with those in Puerto Rico and Florida and everywhere else lying in the wake of this current storm, and anyplace where suffering takes hold as we strive to coexist on this struggling planet.
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