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Led primary today featured chill afrobeats. Once a season or so, I play music. Today was inspired by the joys of cultural exchange. Its a full vibe to cultivate gratitude and appreciation for the privilege to taste the fruits of other lands.
Ashtanga Yoga isn’t fragile— But the system that tried to contain it? That one cracked. When leadership is centralized, the whole thing topples with a single loss. When authority is gatekept, the system can’t adapt. But Mysore-style was always meant to be self-practice. Passed hand to hand. From one dedicated practitioner to another. You breathe,…
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After all this time, inviting instead of pushing still feels like a spiritual crucible. 3 years after getting hit by a car. 2 years after getting hit by a bike. Then one day the feeling of potential movement returns, the heart opens again, and the pieces wedge back into place. Patience, patience. All the slow…
Pragmatism and Sustainability in Ashtanga Yoga— do your practice 6 days a week is the tradition. But dont get it twisted. Do as much asana as you’d like, when you can. But dont confuse that for your yoga practice. You can do a yoga practice all day long in a myriad of valid ways— no…
Thoughts on individualized sequencing in Ashtanga yoga.
Today, i relish the roll of the earth off my fingertips, like a perfectly set layup on the basketball court. An effortless swish. Yoga is a system for self realization and one of the truths that we come across is that a body in dis-ease often leads to a mind that is in dis-ease. Consistant…
It’s not a contest. But it is fun. Balancing ambition versus patience is triiiiiicky.
There are no transgressive questions.