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3 entries in 2014 · oldest first
Ashtanga: What Matters? On Sports, Dispassion, and Practice
[su_quote]"This practice, its different. It doesn't ask you to *give up* anything. A house holder practice, and all that." I laughed, and responded "except dinner." -- a dialouge with a good friend, on ashtanga yoga. also: bullshit 🙂 [/su_quote] Every Sunday afternoon in Mysore, Sharath holds…
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The Paradox of Sharing: Unique Experience, Confirmation Bias, and Ashtanga Yoga
Talking about ashtanga can make you crazy. Or not. Or both. "Whenever we practice, we quickly run into paradox... this is what happens when we start to cling to any one formula or any one technique. We quickly run into this sense that it isn't complete--…
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Don’t Be a Hater: On Selfies, Radical Self Acceptance, and Yoga on the Internet
After I was assaulted and hospitalized in 2012, I became something of a media spectacle. We needed money for my surgery (titanium plates run about 14k a pop, and I needed a few), and my community rallied around me. From yogis to drag queens, so…
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