Asana, Pranayama, and Yoga Practice

Virasana?

ByElizabeth June 27, 2012June 27, 2012

When you are working on hip openers, don’t forget to stretch you quads, even if it doesn’t feel particularly heroic.

Peace and light, E — Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.

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Practice Every Day
ByElizabeth June 26, 2018

It isn’t sadhana unless it is steady, repeated, and over a long period of time (though form or emphasis might change).

United States Supreme Court, June 28, 2018

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Addicted to Meditating?
ByElizabeth March 18, 2011March 18, 2011

I am taking off most of the work day so that I can attend a special three-hour asana practice at Willow Street Yoga with Desiree Rumbaugh. In order to get done things that should not wait until Monday, I chose to start working at 6, so I could forget about work when I left for Silver Spring at 9 am for the workshop. I needed my usual practice time to get done what needed to be done in the time allotted.

I noticed that I felt just a little edgier and less grounded this morning. Was it just feeling the pressure of needing to get things done or was it not having done my usual practice?

As I contemplated this question, I invited into myself the feelings I get from practicing, which I could do precisely because it is the first morning in a couple hundred mornings I have not sat for meditation.

What is important, though, is not to be addicted (with the side effects that come with any addiction when deprived), even as we are wholly committed to practice to have its benefits keep growing.

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Found Exhortation
ByElizabeth June 30, 2019June 30, 2019

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“Seriously”
ByElizabeth January 23, 2012January 23, 2012

A friend from the DC Sunday contact improv jam (one of my favorite places to play) sent this link showing a clip from a documentary in progress about the importance of play to our health. One of the things that I love most about Anusara yoga is that John Friend has always described its practice as being “seriously playful.” I was born serious nature and have worked hard in my adulthood to learn to play spontaneously, and what is being offered here resonates for me.

This is a long clip, but well worth the time. Anusara yogis, notice how familiar some of it sounds. Enjoy!

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Yoga Alignment for Snow Shoveling
ByElizabeth December 19, 2009

When out shoveling (see photos from tonight here), use these Anusara alignment principles as a mantra to keep yourself doing them: shins in, thighs out, tailbone tucked, upper arm bones integrated into the shoulder socket, shoulder blades hugged to the back of the heart. Oh yes, arm bones integrated, shoulder blades onto the back of the heart.

Afterwards, try a few slow sun salute variations to reintegrate and align. Follow with vipariti karani (legs up the wall), supported supta baddha konasana (supported reclining bound angle pose, and a few hip openers of choice.

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The Time Is Now
ByElizabeth August 2, 2021August 2, 2021

The time is now for nonviolent direct moral action. Poor People’s Campaign, action highlighting low wage workers, August 2, 2021, Washington, DC

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