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,[…]
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,[…]
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.”[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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.[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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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[…]
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[…]
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.[…]
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[…]
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.[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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.[…]