Thoughts

I’m feeling some resistance to write on this topic, which, as you’ll see, is pretty ironic. It feels big, it feels confusing, mostly, it feels sticky. But, in my own experience, the actual implementing of this practice has only felt…

“For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter…” –Yoda (The Empire Strikes Back) This is…

Negative connotations often surround the idea of darkness. The ideas of moving into or towards the darkness often hold evil or “bad” associations. The dark is often thought of as a place to be feared. There is, however, a very…

This is the story of how we begin to remember –Paul Simon, “Under African Skies” And that is a story of yoga. So many of the myths, stories, and teachings of yoga center around the theme of forgetting and remembering,…

The word yoga translates as “union” or “yoke.” In our practices, we are often working to bring into union, balance, and harmony oppositional actions and energies. One of the teachings we learn from Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras is the idea of…

I took a yoga class not too long ago in which the teacher spoke of building strength and stamina through our poses and practices. It’s not the first time I’ve heard it. I’ve even spoken to it in classes. But…

I recently celebrated a birthday. A couple of days before said birthday, I read a post by an absolutely amazing yogini and teacher, Sianna Sherman. She was promoting her “Goddess Yoga Project” and was speaking of Kali, the dark, fearsome,…

I recently finished reading Rod Stryker’s The Four Desires. In it, he speaks to the concept of vairagya, a Sanskrit term often translated as “dispassion, detachment, or non-attachment.” This idea is very similar to aparigraha, “non-grasping or non-possessiveness” which I…

I am in the midst of truly learning and understanding a valuable lesson: make space for things to come into your life. I have heard this before and have acknowledged it as true and important, but until these past few…

A few weeks ago, I read an article that referenced the Roman god Janus, the ancient god of the threshold that watches over doorways and gates. The god of beginnings and endings. He is portrayed as having two faces, one…