Yoga Sutras by Patanjali, translation by Barbra Miller 2.2-2.3- Its [yoga] purpose is to cultivate pure contemplation and attenuate the forces of corruption. The forces of corruption are ignorance, egoism, passion, hatred, and the will to live. 2.7-2.8: Passion follows from attachment to pleasure, hatred follows from attachment to suffering. On Joy and Sorrow by…
Good Ideas, Bad Ideas Looking to put a cap on the week? Want to start the weekend off right? Need to be good before you can go be bad? Happy Hour Yoga! Turn Friday’s afternoon toil into weekend bliss in the company of your friends, peers, colleagues, and fellow practitioners! How does a 3,000sqft roofdeck…
Bakasana on the Water Ashtanga Inspired Vinyasa When: March 13th & 20th Time: 3:30 Ashtanga Yoga Center 4000 Ablemarle Street Washington, DC, 20016 Join me for a special two week series of ashtanga vinyasa inspired practice. This will be a modified ashtanga sequence for both standing and seated postures with playful exuberance and challenging twists…
Dar Williams has a voice that most surely was crafted with elfin magic and a golden harp. Lest I lose my street cred, I won’t tell you how often this song moves me to tears. Throw this song on when you’re doing pigeon, and you’ll see what I mean. I dare you.
Want to know a secret? I start out every single one of my yoga classes with a dynamic warmup, just like how we start a CrossFit class at Balance Gym. Around my parts, we call the warmup “sun salutations,” and there are as many different varieties of sun salutations from tradition to tradition as there…
This weekend I listened to a wonderful lecture by a teacher from Charlottesville, Kate Hallahan. I wanted to share the link with you all. You can check out the podcast here. “This week’s feature is a lecture on the History and Philosophy of Yoga with Charlottesville Yoga Teacher,Kate Hallahan. Kate is the Founder of the…
Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ~Henry David Thoreau I’ve been burning a dark, cold flame. This week, I spoke to my classes about one of the different kinds of yoga that exist outside of the physical, specifically touching on the yoga of the heart: Bhakti yoga. While I…
From the NYT Article, “A Yoga Manifesto“: Yoga is definitely big business these days. A 2008 poll, commissioned by Yoga Journal, concluded that the number of people doing yoga had declined from 16.5 million in 2004 to 15.8 million almost four years later. But the poll also estimated that the actual spending on yoga classes…
During the super sweaty and grunty high intensity portion of today’s CrossFit workout, we worked in two heats. I found myself in the second heat, and subsuqently was able to observe other people doing what I was about to go do– and the free few moments to wonder why I was about to put such…
Have you ever sucked in your gut to create that creepy too-big-rib-cage effect? Then odds are good you’ve used a muscle called the Transverse Abdominus. The TA is an important link in the deep kinetic chain of the body that allows for power from the low body to relate and transfer into power for the…