How to improve your students’ experience with yoga visualizations
Our brains store huge amounts information that needs to be kept organized and ready so that we could pull it up quickly. The brain keeps this information organized in categories,[…]
Category: yoga for your mind
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How to get out of the bubble of your preconceived notions
Have you ever rehearsed an upcoming conversation in your head? “If he says this, I will say that. And then I need to make sure to mention that other thing.”[…]
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Sensation granularity: How your mind interprets your inner state
When my son was little, he was a very restless baby. He wouldn’t nap for longer than 40 minutes, woke up many times during the night and overall was very[…]
The power of perception: How your brain constructs the environment in which you live
I have this big tree in front of my office window. Not long ago I remember looking at the tree in the morning and thinking – “Wow, what a beautiful[…]
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How to challenge your brain’s predictions for better focus
When I ask my son, who is six, how many times he had been outside during his school day, he often says: “I don’t know, 3 or 2 times.” My[…]
Are emotions universal? Do they show up in the same way for everyone?
A few years ago I got hooked on this show called “Lie to me”. The main character of the story, Cal Lightman, is portrayed as the world’s leading expert on[…]
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Who is driving your chariot? The traditional view of the relationship between the senses, mind and intellect
For the longest time I’ve been wondering: where do emotions belong in the Panchamaya model? An argument can be made that emotions show up on every level of our systems.[…]
Goodbye 2017, hello 2018!
As 2017 is drawing to a close, I wanted to take a moment to thank you for reading my blog and contributing to the conversation. Thank you! I read every[…]
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New group for yoga teachers: Share your expertise and explore new ideas
Days are dark… nights are long… it’s cold… students are too busy to get to their regular yoga classes… Sounds familiar? If your well of inspiration is drying up, may[…]
To meditate or not to meditate? How meditation works
When new students arrive in a yoga class they often have little awareness of their bodies. So it is our job as yoga teachers to gradually help them figure out[…]
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Does yoga have its own approach to meditation?
At a holiday party couple of weeks ago I was having a conversation with a lovely young woman who turned out to be a certified meditation teacher. After hearing that[…]
Five koshas: How to gain access to hidden inner layers
The movie Cake follows the main character Clair (played by Jennifer Aniston) as she struggles with chronic pain that was a result of a bad car accident. Yet despite time[…]
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Three stages of working with chakras
At the beginning of my yoga studies many years ago I was fascinated by a yoga book that gave a list of yoga poses for each chakra. It seemed so[…]
How to use chakras to map out your functional and dysfunctional beliefs
Pop culture has a way of taking over some potent concepts and then diluting and trivializing them. It happened to the yoga tradition as a whole, and it happens to[…]
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Do your beliefs hold you back or propel you forward?
I saw this movie a decade or so ago called “What the bleep do we know?!” It gave a simple and down-to-earth introduction to the confusing world of quantum physics.[…]
How to work with chronic pain on the level of intellectual mind
According to Walter Freeman, one of the great neuroscientists, “All the brain can know it knows from inside itself.” This means that every thought and sensation you experience is your[…]
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Four ways to change your emotional responses: types of cognitive reappraisal
In Pixar’s movie Inside Out there is a scene where two characters travel on a “train of thought” and accidentally bump into two boxes spilling their contents on the floor.[…]
Pratipaksha bhavana – the most powerful tool of mind control and emotional regulation
I used to have a rather complicated relationship with my paternal grandmother. When I was little she had a looming presence in my life, often shaming me for the smallest[…]
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How to overcome mental obstacles (part 2)
I met my teacher Gary Kraftsow at an event called “Yoga and Meditation Conference” in Seattle in 2004. Even then I was slightly puzzled by the title of the event[…]
How to overcome mental obstacles (part 1)
According to Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras there are nine potential mental roadblocks that you can bump up against. When that happens, you might experience physical pain, anguish, agitation and disturbed breathing.[…]
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