At first I had no will or intelligence of my own. I was simply urge, impulse, and, as time went on, I became a yearning. And this urge, impulse, yearning that was me was drawn, willy nilly to where yoga took place. I drifted from ashram to ashram all around India slopping over into the places . . . → Read More: How Did It All Begin?
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 .This sample is from the section on doing yoga in the living room. I hope you . . . → Read More: Excerpted from Yoga for Every Room in Your House Click to buy Yoga for Every Room in Your House
.Yoga poses fall into a number of categories and two major categories are forward and back bends. And they should always be done in pairs to encourage the body toward balance. Any time you do a forward bend, you should do a back bend and vice versa. Forward bends have a connection to the ability to surrender. . . . → Read More: Trust and Surrender Click to buy Yoga for Every Room in Your House
.The Great Oom straddled the centuries. He was born in the 19th and died in the 20th. And while he was straddling the centuries he brought yoga to the United States from India. He was one of those fellows who is a little less than sterling in character, but not quite a rotter. No doubt he . . . → Read More: Where’d It All Begin? Continued . . . Click to buy Yoga for Every Room in Your House
.Some things are easier said than done. One of those things is finding the earliest beginnings of a book. Fiction or non fiction, it doesn’t matter. Some of us have pedigrees that go back centuries, even millenia. I, for instance, could claim, if I wanted to, philosophical strands of dna that go back four thousand years . . . → Read More: Where’d It All Begin? Click to buy Yoga for Every Room in Your House
.Honestly! Humans have no clue how much time, energy and just plain manipulation a book puts into getting itself written. I mean really! It took me (Yoga for Every Room in Your House, aka YFERIYH) decades to get my words on paper and years more to get from raw manuscript to a book you can hold . . . → Read More: A Book’s Tale: Introduction Click to buy Yoga for Every Room in Your House
.With any luck, as we practice yoga, we are able to just sink into the moment and just be. Our primate relatives are already there! Doesn't need to keep cool. IS cool! The Orangutan doing a balance pose. Giraffe Is this a stork? Couldn't find the sign. Polar Bear from water level. Keeping cool with the . . . → Read More: Something Tells Me It’s All Happening at the Zoo! Click to buy Yoga for Every Room in Your House
.Announcing Bringing Yoga Home in the Edge and Table at Lake Hiawatha festival . . . → Read More: On the Edge Click to buy Yoga for Every Room in Your House
.I just finished reading a novel by Turkish author Elif Shafak. It’s called The Forty Rules of Love. It’s about the Sufi poet, Rumi. Maybe you’ve heard that name before, maybe not. Sufism is a mystical expression of Islam. This book is also about a Jewish housewife in New England who is finding her life no longer fulfilling. But . . . → Read More: A Doorway to Understanding |
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Are You Hot Enough Yet?
I’m reminded that however miserable I might be in the heat and humidity, nature is luxuriating in it.
But you and I can take the cooling breath and maybe handle the heat a bit better. The explanation follows the photo.
The important part is the shape of the tongue! If you are unable to shape your tongue . . . → Read More: Are You Hot Enough Yet?