Reading Time: 3 minutesLife is change, endlessly moving and shifting. If you try to hold on, you’ll get rope burn. Our spiritual task is to find our inner composure amidst the realization that nothing lasts. There’s been a lot of changes in my life as well, and I’d like to update you all that’s going on. YogaFlow Closure, […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesNowadays, you can find yoga just about everywhere in every corner of the globe, including at gyms, studios, corporate offices, festivals, and more. Alongside kundalini, hatha, Iyengar and vinyasa, you can find disco, goat, and stand-up paddleboard yoga. Much of this modern yoga is the same: specific postures with rhythmic or coordinated breathing. The word
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Reading Time: 5 minutesThere are a number of insightful stories in spiritual communities that involve looking at the same situation from three different perspectives. Sometimes there are three people meeting the same challenge, sometimes there is one person going through the same task three different times. Usually the first two parts of the story represent two extremes, and
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Reading Time: 7 minutesI love words. I love writing words, thinking about words, and researching the etymology of words to understand how they developed. For example, did you ever look at the word triangle and notice that tri means three, so three angles form a triangle? Did you know that disgruntled is the opposite of gruntled, which means
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Reading Time: 7 minutesSomewhere along the path of spiritual awakening, an amazing transformation begins to occur. When we wake up to the true nature of reality, we no longer see a world of good and bad, right and wrong, positive and negative, or heaven and hell. We do not see good people and bad people or good events
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Reading Time: 7 minutesIf I were to sum up my work in the world in one word, it would be connection. This realization came after many years of teaching and writing about love and yoga, when it dawned on me that love and yoga are just two sides of the same coin of connection. The term ‘yoga’ is
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Reading Time: 5 minutesSo here you are, feeling guilty. You should be meditating, but instead you are scrolling on your phone, your dull face lit up by the screen. You were going to work out, but instead got hungry. Now that you ate something, your stomach is too heavy to exercise. You were planning to eat something healthy
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Reading Time: 6 minutesOne of my most favorite ways to teach spiritual wisdom is through a 200hr yoga teacher training. The three weeks we get to spend together combined with the intention to grow fully into our purpose and love in community creates a potent recipe for transformation. However, one thing many students struggle with is what to
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Reading Time: 4 minutes“Okay everyone, let’s all focus on our breath.” It is an instruction we almost always hear at the beginning of a meditation or yoga class. It seems like an important and vital thing to do, but few teachers go into the specifics of exactly why we are focusing on the breath in the first place.
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Reading Time: 5 minutesI recently had the pleasure of interviewing the incredibly kind, joyful, and wise meditation teacher Spring Washam for the Learn to Love Podcast. We talked about a lot of things, including Black Lives Matter, how to hold the complexity of the human experience with a fierce heart, and the importance of compassion. But there was
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