“There is nothing to attain! There is no such thing as enlightenment, only Life in you as you. No need to realize God when God has realized you. It is intimacy we want and it is freely given.
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Mark Whitwell, part 2: enlightenment, head yoga, and all that other stuff
I had stopped attending the Midwest Yoga Conference but I went last year for the first time in a long time just to experience Mark Whitwell. I attended every one of his workshops and I drank the Whitwell kool-aid in a huge way — I decided that if I could only study with one person the rest of my life it would be Mark. This year I registered on the spur of the moment for the pre-conference one
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Mark Whitwell: sex, peace, and all that other stuff
The New York Times article about etiquette in yoga studios is making the rounds of the yoga blogs.YogaDork is quoted about people barging into class:”‘You are Zenned out,’ said the blogger YogaDork, who asked to remain incognito, describing the splendor of Savasana, resting pose.
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things that make you want to say "namaste, bitches"
(photo credit: omtapas) “There is a great fire that longs to burn you –Don’t let fear imagine a separation.It is only yourself, burning for the truth,The truth burning for itself.Knowing this, give yourself, without reservation:In ecstacy the fire burns.” “Having deeply opened to the annihilating aspect of the path, and having alllowed it to act on us, we may find that now and then it acts
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"Transformative Fire"
My absolute favorite color for summer is turquoise, so this week I thought I’d put together a cheerful outfit for you with my love of the blues in mind. I’m also still in bargain hunting mode, so this entire outfit is again just a little over $100.00. Is there a color you like to wear that cheers you up
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Wish I was Wearing: Thrifty Turquoise
Before the Battle of Little Bighorn, Lakota warrior Crazy Horse purportedly said, “today is a good day to die.”Today was a good day for Sweet Sox to die, on Buddha Day, the day that honors The Awakened One’s birth, enlightenment, and death. It is a full moon and the weather could not have been any more beautiful.It was interesting how my mind worked back to the first spirituality I began to
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today is a good day to die
Life and Death are but an illusion.Happy and Sad are just a state of mind.Love and Compassion alleviates the sufferingOf All sentient Beings – those who have beenour Mothers and our Fathers.To recognize the interconnectedness of all beingsIs to know peace! ~ a Buddhist Homage.One of the most significant celebrations in the Buddhist tradition happens every May on the night of the first full moon
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dharma teaching from my cat on Buddha’s birthday
Celebrate the summer solstice by unrolling your mat in the world’s most serene, sun-drenched environment: Times Square. No, really. Join hundreds of fellow yogis on June 21 for Solstice in Times Square , a massive group yoga experience taking place at the intersection of Broadway and 7th Avenue between 46th and 47th–right in the heart of the square.
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Mind Over Madness
The yoga/Hindu wars started in the articles by Deepak Chopra and Aseem Shuklah that YogaDork posted here and here. I think the comments are longer than the articles themselves.Now the fracas has spilled over to here and here over at elephantjournal even getting into the Aryan Invasion of India theory which is a whole ‘nother kettle of fish. Yawn.I’m here to bring it back.I’m here to keep it
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show up and shut up
I have a confession to make: I splurged big time on this Stewart + Brown dress a few weeks ago after seeing it on one of my favorite blogs.I wasn’t sure if it would be worth it and I thought I might end up sending it back, but it is the most comfortable dress I’ve ever owned. I was sold the moment I took it out of it’s package. Instead of a chemical smell you sometimes experience with new clothing, it smells like fresh cut wood
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Wish I was Wearing: Organic Outfit
Many thanks to Michael Stone for sending me this passage from his book Yoga For A World Out Of Balance: Teachings on Ethics and Social Action and allowing me to use it for a blog post. This excerpt resonated with me on such a deep level that it gave me pause, especially the sentence: “Yoga teaches us that everything is connected to everything else in the ongoing flux and flow of reality,
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"Yoga For A World Out Of Balance"
Hey, it’s already May! That means Memorial Day weekend is coming up, and it’s time to get out your Birks and start looking around for some hippy-dippy fun. One good option: the Lightening in a Bottle Festival at Oak Canyon Ranch in Irvine, California (just south of L.A., y’all). It’s a full-on music festival–featuring more than 50 acts over the course of four groove-infused days
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Get Your Groove On
What a surprise it was to receive an email from Michael Stone, author of Yoga for a World Out of Balance: Teachings on Ethics and Social Action.Michael told me that he likes this blog (and it always does this old English major’s heart good when published authors tell me they like my writing – he thinks LYJ is “not simply the repetition of familiar yoga cliches”) and asked whether I wanted to
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dharma talk: Michael Stone
The New York Times article A Yoga Manifesto has really made the rounds of the yoga blogs with each blogger approaching the story a bit differently.As I wrote here there is a new movement in yoga — moving away from the rock star yogi mentality to donation-based classes. Yoga to the People in New York City is riding the crest of this new wave.On the surface I think it’s a great idea and I give
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more questions than answers
When a product with a well-known brand name is seen in a movie or television show, that’s called “product placement”: “product placement, or embedded marketing, is a form of advertisement, where branded goods or services are placed in a context usually devoid of ads, such as movies, the story line of television shows, or news programs.
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hand me that Anusara and a chicken wing
Over the years I’ve known more than a few people who have gone to Mysore, India to study at Pattabhi Jois’ Ashtanga Yoga Institute, many more than once.For those of you who want to study yoga in Mysore, be advised that foreign yoga students must now obtain a “yoga” visa instead of a tourist visa:”From March 2010, all students coming to study at KPJAYI must enter India on a yoga visa, as required
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foreign astanga students: INDIAN VISA ALERT
It was high time for a change and the original blog designer was nowhere to be found.Thanks to Blisschick I learned that Blogger had new templates (where have I been?), and Svasti offered her design expertise. Eventually I figured it all out.Yes, some of the words are a bit hard to read when they are on top of a bird image, but that is my way of focusing your awareness and concentration.
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change is good
Join me in Sao Paulo, Brazil at YOGA FLOW STUDIO over Memorial Day weekend. I’m doing the same teaching I did in Arusha, Tanzania. If you’d rather experience yin-yang yoga and mindfulness meditation instead of drinking beer and eating hot dogs over Memorial Day weekend, come on down to Brazil! YIN-YANG YOGA & MEDITATION WEEKENDFRIDAY, MAY 28 THROUGH SUNDAY MAY 30, 2010We will explore both
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yin-yang yoga and meditation immersion weekend in Brazil
I’ve always received messages in my meditations. Some might call them visions although that is too strong a word for me because I certainly don’t consider myself any type of psychic. I do get flashes of peoples’ lives when I do energy healing — I usually don’t tell them what I see but when I do it is always confirmed
After spending five nights on Zanzibar — no internet, no phones, just lots of sun and beach and alone time and daily power cuts and one day of the Zanzibar version of Delhi Belly — I flew to Arusha via Dar es Salaam to lead my yin-yang yoga retreat. Years ago an akashic record reader told me that something so potent would occur during one of my trips to India (this was before the Kumbh Mela
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from sadhus to zebras, part 2