Food for the Mind (Yoga Philosophy, etc)

Contemplations on readings and yoga philosophy.

Using Technique to Express the Virtue We Wish to Embody

I got a ride home from the John Friend workshop in Bryn Athyn with my friend, colleague, and student Jen.  Jen’s husband, who is a dance professor at a local college, and her three-year old daughter came up to Philadelphia… (READ MORE)

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“Hugging to the Midline” (and discipline/discipleship)

Last night in group practice a student asked what she could do to keep her standing leg upper thigh/outer groin from cramping in ardha chandra chapasana (sugar cane pose).  I responded that she probably was not using her inner thighs… (READ MORE)

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Found Exhortation (Core Value of the Month: Discipline)

What if we were to cease to think of discipline as constraint, as punishment, as something confining and unattainably rigorous, something satisfying only in having suffered for gain?  What if we were to understand it, as Swami Chidvilasananda, suggests as… (READ MORE)

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The Nyaya of Watering the Mango Tree (and tantric yoga multi-tasking)

“Practical Sanskrit” just did a post on its Facebook page that discusses the nyaya (maxim) of watering the mango tree.  When we water a tree with the intention to honor our ancestors and the earth for its gracious offering, we… (READ MORE)

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