Tag: #sankalpa
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TAPAS from YOGA SONG Coming June 21, International Yoga Day
Chapter 11, Tapas New Year’s Eve resolutions are often made with an eye toward immediate results but without a long-term vision that includes commitment to a future that is different. Not even three full weeks into the New Year, New York University published a story stating that 90 percent of New Year’s Eve resolutions are…
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Visitor to Yoga Class at SHD
During the last class of spring/summer we were happy to welcome “Chuck-A-Dog.” Good energy in yoga, good energy wind in the face, good energy in yoga.
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Out-of-Body Yoga: get in on the last two sessions at Superstition Harley Davidson in April (at the most beautiful setting for yoga in Arizona)
It’s no longer surprising when a first-timer says “This is the best thing ever. I feel like I had an out-of-body experience.” It’s not surprising because yoga fully anchors the physical body in the moment. If someone has not really been present in their body, but focused on what they are doing while forgetting about…
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Stepping to a New Parade led by an Old Song
Yoga teaches us to be still and live in a way formed by new dimensions from an old script. It levels our judgments and brings us to the healing ground of calm detachment while simultaneously counseling us through yamas and niyamas to say and do the right things. In the pressured spaces of post-Modernism and…
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A Western Yogi’s Evolving Precis
My yoga starts when I acknowledge the Western inheritance of the yoga tradition or some blended combination of traditions. Western yoga shares widely in the thread known as hatha, a tradition of opposing forces coming into balance and working together for the yogi’s mental, spiritual, and physical development. A scholarly treatment of ancient texts or…
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LUNAR SOUND JOURNEY – event Sunday 4:30
Everyone lives with failures and mistakes. It’s part of being human. But we also carry within us our wildest unarticulated imaginings and hopes. Perhaps sometime during 2021, we’ve experienced great happiness and joy. Maybe we’ve celebrated something in our lives or the lives of those in our circles. But life is a balance, and we…
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Desert Bent Angles: thoughts on playing sitar
My sitar flows in 19 bands of light called baaj, chikari, and tarab. Its journey to my hand is a mystery, but its music-medicine landed on my doorstep from an old land, gripped me from the eons, and pulled my soul into a note-bending journey unlike any other. On sitar and its emotional gravity –…
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Breath and Movement for Longevity in the Saddle (Nov. 10 and 24) @ SUPERSTITION HARLEY-DAVIDSON
Come on up to the eagle’s nest (outdoor patio) at Superstition Harley-Davidson (2910 W. Apache Trail), for breath and movement for bikers a week from today (November 10 at 5:00 pm). It’s the fourth year of breath and movement designed to keep bikers at ease and in the saddle long term. Teaching riders for the…
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Got 5 (koshas) On It
“I got dreams that are too big for mass.” #thisbeinghuman When dreams meet Self, descriptions abate and prophesies grow into fullness, while the wisdom of silence and balance of polarities root and branch in the 5 koshas. When dreams meet self, every yogi is shattered and burned. Forgetting everything they thought they knew, they are…