Strong back, soft front
I returned from my three week trip to India on Sunday. I find India an incredible place; challenging, contradictory, chaotic, full of paradox. The experience of being there I feel is exercise to strengthening a way of being in the world that Joan Halifax (a Buddhist...
Tuning & Attuning
I attended a workshop with Phillip Beach a couple of weekends ago. Phillip Beach suggests that we tune our bodies through spending more time on the floor in what he calls Archetypal Resting Postures (squatting, kneeling, cross legs, half lotus, long sitting,...
Experiment & Experience
Experience and Experiment have the same root Experiment: Purpose of testing something unknown. Experience: Yoga speaks of experience (pratyaksa) as one of the 4 ways of knowing, and the most important one. Play is the way children and adults experiment and learn and...
Resting into the earth … really resting that is …
Recently I attended a workshop in Melbourne exploring the Scaravelli approach to yoga. It inspired practicing with wonder and curiosity, feeling the postures as a resting into the earth … really resting … really, really resting into the support of the...
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