Finding Resilience & Unity In The Winter Olympics
Lately, I feel like I am crashing in an individual sport; and want to abandon “team USA”.
Reflecting On Pain And Fear With My Saluki
And sometimes we don’t heal our pain. We just let ourselves off the leash from time to time to change our relationship to the pain.
Why Your Core Needs You To Relax & Breathe
Relaxation is an essential ingredient to stabilization. Our system is self organizing around the core center. When we think we
Healing Is Something We Are Interview
In your experience, how does somatic yoga challenge conventional approaches to healing and self-awareness, and what shifts do you observe
New Year Blessings On The Winter Solstice
Yet, here I am again. Reminding myself to breathe out the portrayal of fear. To talk less and listen more to the unspoken. One request professes to live in peace. The latter is to passively protect. Close the mouth and eyes. Use the nose and ears. It is that simple. Make the choice to receive limitless vital force while practicing restraint.
The Yoga of Life, Death, Rebirth, Worry & Hurricanes Through Kali
This is my yoga today. The yoga of life, death and rebirth at play. The cycles that we have no control over – any more than we have control over our own impermanence. Blame climate change, living in a vulnerable place like a small island, whatever you want; it is easier to accept the trees dropping their leaves, or the new flowers opening as change because we are not afraid. And we celebrate birth in the spring lambs and humans alike, as they go unrecognized as change. But when transition is destruction, we are hardwired for fear and non-acceptance. Yoga is my path to acknowledge that something is dying and, therefore, changing, morphing, transitioning. I recognize it in every savasana.
How To Start A Somatic Yoga Journey Inward
I often get asked how to start or establish a regular Somatic Yoga practice – what movements to start with, what order to do them in, how many repetitions, and how is Somatic Yoga its different from “regular” yoga. This week we launched a free “Learn Somatic Yoga” video series on YouTube. It is an invitation for you to begin a regular practice. Each video is just one movement, and the videos do not need to be done in any specific order. Choose what sounds interesting!
Evaluate Dreams to Give Ajna Chakra Vision
The Ajna chakra is the space of self-reflection. It gives you the “right to see” – to understand yourself through