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 [...]
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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 »
Could not say it any better.
Posted in Life, Yoga Theory, tagged guru, sadhna, t. krishnamacharya, Yoga on April 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“I will serve my Guru. In this world, I will be a slave to nobody, work under nobody. Money and status mean nothing to me.” ~ T.Krishnamacharya Life is my Guru. My students are my Guru. My wife is my Guru. Happiness, joy, pain, hardship, death, sex, nature, music, and everything else that inspires [...]
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 [...]
Green Thumb for the Soul
Posted in Life, Yoga Theory, tagged meditation, thich nhat hanh on February 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“The gentle spring rain permeates the soil of my soul. A seed that has lain deeply in the earth for many years just smiles.” -Thich Nhat Hanh I have absolutely loved this quote since first reading it and come back to it pretty often. I am of the mind that within all of us [...]
Happy 2009!
Posted in Climbing, Life, tagged Climbing, Yoga on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just got back to Austin yesterday and am sooo happy to be home! I flew out to LA on the 23rd to see Hannah and visit with her family for a couple days. We got there just in time to see the end of the carol singing at her grandparents house that happens every year. [...]
Dating Oneself?
Posted in Life, tagged Rogers Park, teaching on December 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
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, [...]
