Tag: Asana Journal
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To Stand in Good Relation
Yoga braids us into a light not of this world. Its blueprint is not designed for appeal. It might be fashionably popular now, but popularity is built on a thin crust and designed for obsolescence. It has no Superbowl or competitive league. Yoga’s popularity has not inspired a mass uprising; it doesn’t lobby for causes…
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Yogatecture: the elegant arc of change
https://blog.sivanaspirit.com/the-delight-song-of-a-new-architecture/ https://blog.sivanaspirit.com/the-delight-song-of-a-new-architecture/
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TRANSFORMING THE EMOTIONAL BODY
68th published yoga article, Issue 187 ASANA JOURNAL Louie Netz, Director for Harley-Davidson’s Styling and Graphics Department once said, “Form and function both report to emotion.” It’s likely when observing a yoga pose, or the stylish symmetry of a Harley-Davidson taking a curve, to believe motorcycles are about speeding through curves and yoga…
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Plank challenge.
Time to defend my title?
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Effortless Asana
When it’s an expression of gratitude, asana becomes effortless. Secret to Effortless Asana By mobilizing prana – accompanied with mindful movement – effortless, joyful expression is set into muscle memory. IN time, cellular health aligns with thought and intention (the biology of belief) and its the reason yoga pays attention to mental outlook; for while…
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Yoga Breath, Breath of Life
In the workshops I’ve done at MOTTO YOGA, I’ve included others to help lead the experience. In January, Dan Meyer showed up and dropped a REAL SWORD down his throat and talked about how that is worship for him. In the other workshops, I’ve had Cindy Cain and Lee Swenson accompany me with fiddle,…
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YOGA BREATH, BREATH OF LIFE
Workshop at MOTTO YOGA, Sunday July 29, 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. 7529 S. POWER RD. Suite 101, QUEEN CREEK, ARIZONA 480-819-YOGA Pre register for this two-hour workshop at http://www.mottoyoga.com Participants in this workshop will engage the dynamic force of their own breath – yoga’s therapeutic – through breathing exercises and healing sound, asana linked…
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APPLAUSE FOR SEEKERS
The assumptions of my inherited culture: the Euro-American, Lutheran-Christian, dualist WASP-centric perspectives have shaped my perceptions and limit my ability to truly inhabit the culture of others. But I am open to understanding others and in spite of my conditioning, I’m positioned like a hungry-man at a feast; I taste the food, but the flavor…
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Yoga Inspirationals: The Western Diaspora
The movement became unpredictable, and while nobody took credit, yoga unveiled a curtain and people looked through the mirror to a radiance within. Westlanders were distracted; they didn’t listen to gurus and didn’t read books, but they took to their mats and became present with themselves. They remembered their joy and opened like the petals…
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ITS NOT JUST EXERCISE
They practice yoga in a 104 degree room when it’s 105 outside. They come from all walks of life: age, race, physical condition, gender, profession, and status. But they all do YOGA to sharpen their mind and focus their will. They show up to strengthen their bodily systems, to ground their minds in the present…