Had a great time and a great turnout for the Arm Balance and Inversion workshop! Thanks so much to all of you that came and participated. Now announcing my second Fall workshop at KULA Yoga! This is one of my favorites to teach as it is such a game changer. Almost every student who has [...]
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Fall Workshop #2 – Beyond Asana: Bandha, Dristi, Ujjayi
Posted in Teaching Yoga, Yoga Theory, tagged asana, Ashtanga, Austin Kula Yoga, Austin TX, bandha, Matt Borer, teaching, ujjayi, Yoga, yoga workshop on September 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
