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 [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
