Lying down, I exhale, and there is complete release. The work, the practice, the pranayama, swiftly fade into history. I can hear and feel my breathing and heart rate slowly begin to return to normal. With eyes closed I exhale again and search my supine body for any areas of tension that can be discovered [...]
Archive for the ‘Being A Student’ Category
A Savasana Remembered
Posted in Being A Student, Life, Living Yoga, tagged Ashtanga Yoga Austin, Collin Watson, Matt Borer, meditation, savasana on November 13, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Y4L Sutra 3
Posted in Being A Student, Life, Teaching Yoga, Y4L Sutra, tagged Ashtanga, Ashtanga Yoga Austin, Austin Kula Yoga, Austin TX, kickboxing, Matt Borer, Yoga on September 2, 2010 | 3 Comments »
“If you had a crystal ball to gaze in and ask what your practice looks like in the future and you didn’t see the results you hoped for or as soon as you hoped for, would you simply quit and take up some other method?” -Dave Swenson So many students of mine often ask how [...]
This Yoga Thing DOES Seem To Be Working
Posted in Being A Student, Life, Living Yoga, Yoga Theory, tagged Austin Kula Yoga, bodisattva, Matt Borer, Vedanta, Yoga on June 26, 2010 | 2 Comments »
My reasons for practicing and studying the philosophies of Yoga, Vedanta, and Buddhism have constantly changed bit by bit over the past 13 years or so. The basic trend seems to be from the micro to the macro. Micro – initially working on all the tiny approachable self fixes in hopes of constantly evolving (or [...]
Ashtanga Yoga NOT cancelled this coming Sunday!
Posted in Being A Student, Teaching Yoga, tagged Ashtanga, Austin Kula Yoga, Matt Borer on March 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ashtanga Led Primary Series 9AM, Austin Kula Yoga! This Sunday is NOT cancelled due to holiday. I dont celebrate the Easter AND yoga isnt a religion, although it can be quite religious! Come join us no matter what you celebrate! No better way to start of any given Sunday. Maybe bring treats and we can [...]
Y4L Sutra 1
Posted in Being A Student, tagged Ashtanga, David Swenson, David Williams, Y4L Sutra, Yoga on March 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Going to start a new concept on this blog of throwing down some sutras/quotes from either myself or things I have picked up from others. Basically Sutra translates from Sanskrit to English as meaning “thread”. Threads of knowledge gathered up to eventually weave a bigger picture! These are just one-liners of wisdom to give you [...]
Being A Student: Western Mindset vs Eastern Methodology
Posted in Being A Student, Teaching Yoga, Yoga Theory, tagged Ahimsa, David Williams, pranayama, teaching, Yoga on March 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
In a conversation some time ago I had with David Williams, we were talking about how to step away from your practice and view the bigger picture. Stepping back and seeing the forest (yoga) for the trees (asanas). He was trying to impart that one should be approaching any yoga practice with a constant eye [...]
Free Day Of Yoga, 2009!
Posted in Being A Student, tagged Austin Kula Yoga, Yoga on September 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Hey all! Thanks to all those that participated in Austin Free Day of Yoga again this year. It was exciting for me to teach one right off the bat in a new studio and see a great mix of old and new faces! Just got some pictures back from the event at KULA and thought [...]
Where My Dogs At?
Posted in Being A Student, Life, Teaching Yoga, tagged Austin Kula Yoga, etiquette, teaching, Yoga on September 23, 2009 | 17 Comments »
So I was talking to a long time student of mine this evening at Kula, and it brought the subject of this writing to the forefront. I have been wondering for three weeks now how my former students, that I have not seen since I left to teach at Kula, have been faring. This is [...]
Being A Student: a bit on classroom etiquette and
Posted in Being A Student, Yoga Theory, tagged Ashtanga, etiquette, niyama, saucha, Sutra, Yoga on April 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Etiquette of being a student is always a hard subject for any teacher to approach. This subject could cover a lot of different items that come up in a public class. In this piece I am mainly going to refer to personal hygiene and its communal classroom effects, a subject we Ashtangis are intimately aware [...]
A bit more on Green Thumbs!
Posted in Being A Student, Life, Yoga Theory, tagged Adi Shankara, Advaita, meditation, Upanishads, Vedas on February 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Adi Shankara was a yogi philosopher and scholar, born approx. 509 B.C., who was responsible for starting the Advaita Vedanta school of yogic thought. He was an infamously fantastic debater who traveled across India spreading his particular ideas based deeply in the Upanishads and various Vedic texts. Apparently after his father died he was initiated [...]
