Warrior Pose, of which there are three variations, is an essential feature of many Yoga asana sequences. The warrior pose of soldiers is as vari...
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Inspiration
Yoga’s Threat to the Underpinnings of the West
[Doomsday: The Consequences of Yoga’s Continued Growth in the West (Part 3)]
America’s greatness is built on open competition and the profit motive, or in other words, capitalism. A fun...
Aug 15th, 2017
Inspiration
The Consequences of Practising Yoga in Its Entirety
The first two limbs of the body of yoga are ten fundamental precepts called the yamas and niyamas. Unlike the Ten Commandments, they are more like ethical guidelines. The first of the yamas is ahimsa,...
Aug 14th, 2017
Yoga Feature
Far Side of Hell
“War is hell.” William Tecumseh Sherman
Wars are armed conflicts. We have been marching off to them for the past 14,000 years. Since the rise of the nation-state as we know it tens ...
Jun 29th, 2017
Inspiration
Eleven Months of Yoga
I found myself going to yoga in the first place because my neighbor Vera had started taking classes. She was taking classes because her husband Frank had taken classes for a long time. “He...
Feb 14th, 2017
Inspiration
SANTA, SAVIORS & CORPSE POSE
"To live outside the law, you must be honest" Bob Dylan
The difference between policies and principles is the difference between Santa, Saviors, and Savasana, or what is kn...
Feb 13th, 2017
Other
Two’s A Crowd
Meditation is not a huge undertaking. Anybody can do it anywhere they are, anytime they want, sitting somewhere familiar or even on the fly. It’s often thought that meditation is thinking about noth...
Nov 14th, 2016
Yoga Philosophy
Crime of the Century
As the 21st century unspooled, yoga has increasingly taken on the after look in a before and aftermath crime-scene photo. One hundred years ago it looked like a lot of class. Fifty years ago it got a ...
Aug 24th, 2016
Inspiration
Chaturanga Chatter
There are some constants common to all yoga classes, from beginner instruction to the push and pull of Ashtanga, from the ease of gentle restorative classes to the drumbeat of Bikram. On...
Jul 19th, 2016
Other
Until Triangle Do Us Part
There are many reasons men and women become couples of all kinds, and even get married, even when they know better. They grow up, the clock is ticking, or they get cold feet about staying single. It s...
May 3rd, 2016
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