Cooling Cloud in a :ot Summer Sky
I was truly grateful for this cloud when I was walking to Union Station on my way up to Willow Street early this evening to study with Christina Sell. She is here until Sunday. If you are in town, check… (READ MORE)
Two Ways of Looking at Things (and Women: Count Your Apertures)
My studies today (it is a very rare day that I do not read some of a yoga text or commentary) included a mention of the body’s nine openings. The yoga treatises ubiquitously mention the “nine openings” of the body… (READ MORE)
June William Penn House Classes Back on Location (Web Version of E-Notice)
Dear Friends, My apologies for any potential confusion. William Penn House IS able to accommodate Tuesday night yoga classes in June and the conference people. Please disregard previous notice, or, in the immortal words of Gilda Radnor, “never mind.” Hope… (READ MORE)
The Spell Check Alternative for Satcitananda
is catsitting. Hmmm. Peace and light, E — Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.
It Does Not Get Much Better (and Satcitananda)
The key concept of yoga–satcitananda can be elusive, like all abstract concepts in the yoga philosophy and in other philosophies or areas of study. We are given metaphors and analogies in the texts to help us recognize when, through our… (READ MORE)
Waiting for the Bus
The hunched over woman lit a cigarette. Another man bummed one from her and leaned against the trash cans to smoke. Smoking helps make the bus come–right? Nowadays, I contemplate, or chant, or stand on one foot, or maybe post… (READ MORE)
Article About Anusara Yoga and Aging
Congratulations and thanks for my friends and fellow Anusara yoga instructors, Kathy Carroll and Ellen Saltonstall for publishing, Effects of Anusara Yoga on Older Students From Their Perspective (Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation • Volume 27, Number 2, 94–103 • Copyright… (READ MORE)
June Greetings (Web Version of June E-Newsletter)
Dear Friends, One of the yoga practices in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras is sauca, which means cleanliness or purity. It does have a basic aspect of physical cleanliness, which has lead me this year to do an especially vigorous spring cleaning. … (READ MORE)
Telephone Pole Poetry
Peace and light, E — Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.
Abhinavagupta (X-Rated or Not?)
As I get deeper into studying tantric philosophy I have taken the time to pause and reflect on how that philosophy originated and grew and who were the people offering and practicing the teachings. The tantric teachings I have received… (READ MORE)