The lovely ladies from Tales From A Bar Stool were kind enough to interview me recently. The final version is posted on their blog, and you can see that they were exceedingly flattering in it. You can read it here.
There are those things I find categorically wrong with certain teaching practices of yoga that I have witnessed, and then there are those that I simply disagree with – this is one of the latter.
I submit for the consideration of the jury, that Savasana is a silent practice.
I teach a regular Sunday morning meditation class. In it we often discuss how meditation at its core is being alone with your own thoughts.
Things end. I was reminded of this recently during the second act of As You Like It at Bard On The Beach, when a gentlemen about 15 feet away had a heart attack. Sometimes we are exposed to things that we are not prepared for.
I am blessed to have known my great-uncle.
The yoga isn’t always what you think.
It’s important to do fun stuff. I know, ground-break statement. But medically, scientifically, ayurvedically; it actually is important.
Last night in class I reiterated for my regular students, and underlined clearly for my new students, that in my class they have the absolute freedom to skip any pose they want.
A recent story in the news caught my attention, concerning the passing of the last remaining heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
“The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”
- Hunter S. Thompson