So in the car yesterday on the way to Rogers Park in Belton TX we were chatting it up. I was driving and Ellen, Caroline, and dog Bean were carpooling to go climbing for the day in the bitter bitter cold! It turned out to be a bit shorter day than usual due to it [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Dating Oneself?
Posted in Life, tagged Rogers Park, teaching on December 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A beautiful Sunday afternoon.
Posted in Climbing, Life, tagged Climbing, tolkien on December 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Got up early and had some incredibly yummy coffee. (my coffee can be eaten with chopstix) Taught my Sunday AM Ashtanga class which is always a great one! After coming home and doing what I can describe best as “putsing around” for a bit ( a skill I learned from my pops), I headed [...]
Oh, the decisions we make!
Posted in Life, Yoga Theory, tagged Agni, Ashtanga, Ayurveda, buddhi, Family, Gita, MeatBrick, prajnaparadha, tapa, vegetarian, Yoga on December 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
So this piece constitutes the last of the yoga related writings that I have had in the bank. Time to get crackin on more new material! Enjoy! About five years ago my brother was visiting me in Washington DC. He lives in Japan and we get to see each other only once or [...]
Ahhhh, Thailand.
Posted in Life on December 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Just reminiscing on practicing in Koha Samet, Thailand. The Tsunami that devastated the area occurred only days after I left and I always wonder about the state of those beaches and the great locals and tourists I met there. Wishing the best for the Thai government and its people and hoping to someday return to [...]
Ahimsa
Posted in Life, Yoga Theory, tagged Ahimsa, Ashtanga, Sutra, Yama, Yoga on December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a little something I wrote a while ago… Ahimsa! In Sanskrit there is a term…Ahimsa…which translated means non-harming. A beautiful concept for a word! I don’t know of many other words that symbolize this concept. There are millions of words for the opposite though…destroy, harm, hurt, wreck, ruin, break, crush, beat, smash, [...]
On creating a home yoga practice and the making of ones bed.
Posted in Being A Student, Life, tagged Home Practice, Yoga on December 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Now and then we offer a piece of advice to a friend in passing. Often we have little idea of the implications of this advice or the residual effects of it that are often greater than we could imagine. Sometimes it’s just something that pops into your head in mid conversation like a hit [...]
Thoughts on Yoga for Life with David Williams.
Posted in Being A Student, Yoga Theory, tagged Ashtanga, David Williams, Gita, Pradipika, Sutra, Upanishads, Yoga on December 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There was certainly a lot of great information and advice to ruminate on after Davids wonderful workshop here at the YogaYoga. So much of his viewpoint was new an refreshing to hear, and much of it simply reinforced thought processes that I have been harboring for quite some time. The major one of these [...]
“This yoga stuff doesn’t seem to be working.” -my dad
Posted in Being A Student, Yoga Theory, tagged Family, Yoga on December 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My parents began practicing hatha yoga a number of years ago. I believe that I talked about it so much that they figured there must be something to it! They have been practicing now twice a week ever since. About two years into practicing, I asked my Dad how it was going, to which [...]
