Tag: yoga sutras
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You Can Overdo Literally Anything (How to not Burn Out)
It’s January, the time of year when many people throw themselves full force into a new routine, only to burn out on it by Valentine’s Day. This doesn’t just happen over the new year; we’ve all been so excited with something that we overdo it. Two weeks later we’re over it. Why is this? We […]
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Can you be too blissed? In a car, yes.
I started practicing yoga in 2003, with my heart set on figuring out what bliss felt like. Bliss is one translation of samadhi, the last limb listed in the Yoga Sutras. It’s also translated as absorption, boundlessness, or integration. Whatever you call it, it’s elusive. At the beginning of my teaching career I tried to […]
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Straight (and Curved) Lines to Trust and Beginner’s Mind
I am learning how to draw because I want to become a better visual communicator when I teach workshops. I’ve been drawing for about seven weeks now, and I’ve noticed a paradox: I’m getting better at it because I forgot why I wanted to draw in the first place. I credit three authors and their […]
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Sparks light, but coals heat: Cultivating Resolve
(Originally published in 2015: Check out the app here) The first thing I’ll admit to in this article: It’s about me, working on an app called Onward Facing Yoga. The app contains 11 sequences and 18 hours of instruction. I hope it ignites the spark of home practice and gives teachers ideas for guiding their […]
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Frameworks 300 reading list
Frameworks 300 is dedicated to both offering a broad educational experience and providing resources for trainees to go deep into subjects that interest them most. Below is the list of the required and recommended books. What do I mean by recommended? Simply, I recommend them! Many of the books are being used as reference material […]
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4 Fantastic Yoga Sutra Books
“The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali” by Alistair Shearer Stats at a glance Sanskrit text: No Transliterated text: No Translation of individual Sanskrit words: No Translation of Sutras: Yes Ability to read all the Sutras back-to-back: Yes Shearer reviews the history of the Vedas, the similarities between yoga and Buddhism (he concludes that they both stem […]
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