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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘meditation’
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 »
THE SWEETNESS OF SADHANA: A Week of YOGA in Costa Rica with Matt Borer and Jenn Wooten
Posted in Teaching Yoga, tagged asana, Costa Rica, Jenn Wooten, Matt Borer, meditation, pranayama, thai massage, Yoga, yoga retreat on September 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We are back on for a great week in Costa Rica peoples!! We are about a year away from it still, but I wanted to get some info. out there to give you all time to save up for it. Her are the details thus far… November 26th-December 3rd 2011 Pura Vida Resort, Costa Rica [...]
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 [...]
