Tag: yogi
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What’s the Teaching, Really? (At the Heart of it All)
A Q&A evening with my teacher’s teacher led us into the Teachings of Silence: the deepest teaching there is. Here’s a glimpse into the evening. Enjoy!
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How to Release Face Tension: Lovin’ Lion’s Breath, Tennis Balls, & Gary Crowley
If someone, or something, relieves you of pain and suffering, they become something like an angel. Angels, beacons of Light where was once dim, I like to fill my life with them. Having Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, and who knows what else, I’m constantly uncovering health issues. Some of which have existed for some time, but became buried…
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Rumbles & Ripples: What We Create Within, Affects Without
All too often, anymore these days, the situation that is presented in front of me is a complete dichotomy: yin and yang. For example, recently on a very stormy evening, just three people showed up to my class. One wanted a very relaxing yoga session. The other two wanted balls to the wall action. It wasn’t…
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A Meditation Technique: Surfing the Breath
After spending numerous hours in meditation these last few months, I’ve come to the realization that I’ve uncovered a great meditation technique for staying focused and quieting the mind. As you look inward and subject yourself to the contents of you mind, thoughts will easily arise. Before, I would simply observe my breath: watch the inhales, watch…
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Passing Insights from a Meditation Master
Sometimes it seems as if life can be likened to a big game of chess: Pieces being moved about, each with their own attributes and capabilities. Forces from above, calculating: which way, and when to move. Black, white. Moving ahead, falling back. Last night I spent an hour with a Meditation Master, for the fourth time in the past…
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Follow Up to Poem 3, From Nurture to Nature
This post is a Follow Up to my recent poem: Poem 3, From Nurture to Nature: The following day I was still recuperating from my overexertion. I decided to kick back, and put on the next installment of a particular Joseph Campbell series. He began by explaining that in the same way we would have our…
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My Fruit & Nut Breakfast Bowl
Any yogi will tell ya, the more awareness you gain from your practice the more awareness you’ll have of what you put into your body. Most mornings I’ll drink a smoothie. The other mornings rotate between some sort of fruit and nut oatmeal mix, eggs, potato/mix or possibly this go-to recipe I concocted when I…
the gluten free yogi 