also 2015 xoxo @davidgarriguesyoga
also 2015 xoxo @davidgarriguesyoga
Practice
Mysore, 2015
Mysore, 2015
Jun 15, 2025
Colonizers gonna colonize. Oppressors going to oppress. Its your body, its your choice. These aphorisms help push back against self-reinforcing loops of domination—social, cultural, political, even spiritual. It’s a systems insight dressed in streetwise wisdom. Could I be any more explicit? Hello! In Systems Thinking, Donella Meadows would call this a reinforcing feedback loop—where the…
Jun 15, 2025
Pain can wake us up. It means its time to adjust. But how? The Yoga of Synthesis is a holistic approach to spiritual practice that integrates the four major yogic paths—Karma Yoga (selfless service), Bhakti Yoga (devotion), Jnana Yoga (knowledge), and Raja Yoga (meditation and mind control)—to develop all aspects of the practitioner: body, heart,…
Jun 15, 2025
Yoga practice builds resilience— something i really encourage. I’m sort of known for my resilience, which is a nice way of saying I’ve seen some sh*t and seem fairly well adjusted. I even got to write about resilience during times of political unrest for @yogajournal . I’m also known as well as my transparent, explicit…
Jun 15, 2025
Yoga practice is like playing a musical instrument. We must practice for both skill and pleasure. At first its scales, and then its compositions. Soon, we create our own music. We iterate and iterate. We remix. Freedom comes through experience and discipline. At some point we burn the method. We destroy the reference. The joy…
After all this time, inviting instead of pushing still feels like a spiritual…
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…