Stand like a Mountain ~ Tadasana
Tadasana has never been so empowering, so moving – and so elusive – in 27 years of yoga. Not quite a week out from a 5 day chemotherapy treatment, within a year of 4 rounds of 5 day treatments, and facing even more depleting and toxic treatments coming up – I feel wobbly, though not [...]
Article on Meditation from Shambala. What do you want to do with your mind?
I found a good article on meditation by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche at Shambala Times. It goes well with the “All is Given” blog post I wrote recently. “Meditation is not a recess or a timeout. It’s a deepening and strengthening of the mind, which affects our whole life.” It’s a brief but rich and eloquent [...]
All is Given Pt. 1: musings, Sutras & Gita, and free meditation mp3.
[NOTE: it's a long one, you may want to print from blog for better reading. You have to read all the way through to download the meditation in mp3 format ] Is my body mine? Does it belong to me, in terms of rights of ownership? Am I defined by my physicality (gender, species, health, [...]
Practice: Just because… appetite
” ‘For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner,’ wrote Pablo Casals in his memoir, Joys and Sorrows. ‘I go to the piano, and I play two preludes and fugues of Bach. It fills me with awareness of the wonder of life, with a feeling of the incredible marvel [...]
Keep squeezing the belt! Resources for Pelvic Floor practice, or Mula Bandha (books, tips)
As you know, unused muscle loses tone and strength. The mind is powerful, however thinking about doing pelvic floor exercises, and nodding ‘I know, I know’ will not a strong pelvic core make. Consistent, daily practice, “with no gaps” as Friday the Tibetan girl says in “How Yoga Works” will make for a rewarding practice. [...]
Practice: yoga now more than ever
Someone asked me recently if I missed my yoga practice. Actually I am more consistent and present and dedicated than I have been in a while. The practice is more meditation and intention and breath awareness, breath work and not so much asana (postures). And those practices plug me into the heart of yoga very [...]
