Yoga is for
Every Body
Often when we think of Yoga, we picture model-thin, athletic women in trendy, expensive Yoga clothes, doing a vigorous physical practice designed to burn calories, increase muscle, and create the body beautiful. And, certainly, Yoga can give you that ideal, if that’s...
This is the time of year we all set intentions--resolutions for a new you. Usually they're overridden by our innate laziness and human frailty, but there's a way to work on transformation that is more successful than a random wish for sobriety and weight loss. In...
We are in a season of overindulgence. We move from overeating on Thanksgiving, over shopping on Black Friday, overworking for the next few weeks, and then it starts all over again during the holiday season. Finally, after the New Year, we start to get back to our more...
If you think you never meditated, I beg to differ. Anytime you've concentrated on anything to the exclusion of everything else, you have meditated! My Guru, Sri Swami Satchidananda said meditate on "Anything the delights the mind". First, find a comfortable seat....
Wow! Look at that expansive mouth! You can just imagine what kind of sound will come out of that mouth--a big, resonant, glass shattering beller! ; It takes a really strong body to sing in that powerful way. One of my favorite quotes from my days studying opera is one...
I've been studying Yoga for about 40 years now, and have read dozens of books on the subject. I've even written a couple books myself! I thought I would share with you some of my favorites--books that I go back to again and again. At the top of the pile is...
I was hoping to come to Yogaville over the weekend, but things came up and my workshop was cancelled. There are lots of other wonderful things happening in Yogaville, so if you're within driving distance, I highly recommend you take a trip so visit an authentic Yoga...
Not too long ago my friend Chad Oba suggested I enter the 6th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest. So I did. She just told me I was accepted--she didn't actually say I won, but these 2 poems made it into their collection. The orange on the glass Has...
This week at Stretch and Sing, we tried something new that turned out so well, I wanted to share it. We drew 6 cards, each with a different word printed on it. From those six words, we created the following poems. The underlined words are the ones...
The idea for Stretch and Sing came to me in the fall of 2015. As usual in my creative endeavours, I pulled it out of thin air. I didn't really have a firm plan. It seemed to me that seniors --now that I am one-- need more opportunities to move and...
Here's what she said that I had to write down: The people who have the most trouble navigating the change on the outside are the people who are not grounded in the changeless". chat with Marianne Williamson She went on to say that the spiritual life grounds us,...
Swami Satchidananda, who came to the US in the early 60's under the protection of artist Peter Max, has something to say about that feeling in meditation when you feel you're losing yourself, like you're slipping away. He says "Don't be frightened; it's wonderful,...
If you follow me, you may have figured out that I'm not using this blog so much anymore. I decided to put everything in one place, so from now on, you can find my blog posts on BigYoga.Net. But for a quick update, I am spending the winter in Yogaville, where I just...
You are not given the light by anyone—not even by a spiritual teacher. You are that light. Sri Swami Satchidananda The Bible says "You are the light of the world". Yogi Bhajan says " "Travel light, live light, spread the light, be light" Yoga is a light,...