by Eve Grzybowski | May 31, 2012 | XSutras, xTmp, Yoga practices, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Yoga teaching
A strange thing happened this morning, a disturbing thing for me.
Yesterday we had a house guest who was travelling north to Queensland and wanted accommodation overnight. After her arrival, we shared a meal, chatted, and then I set her up in a comfy bed. I suggested breakfast and a beach walk the next morning before she had to continue her drive.
After my early morning yoga practice, I headed off to make breakfast for us and discovered a good-by letter from our guest on the kitchen bench top. […]
by Eve Grzybowski | May 30, 2012 | XSutras, xTmp, Yoga practices, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Yoga teaching , Yoga Therapy
Two weeks ago I dived in and started wending my way through the dense thicket that is Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra. […]
by Eve Grzybowski | May 29, 2012 | XSutras, xTmp, Yoga practices, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Yoga teaching
I’m sometimes embarrassed to say that I do weights workouts a couple of times a week. I guess I perceive that, in the yoga world, the tools of the practice are meant to cater to the care and keeping of our body/minds on every level. We don’t necessarily need the gym.
I suppose if I did enough handstands, forearm balances, dog poses, and chaturangas, those poses would make my bones healthy and strong. But I don’t do them a lot. […]
by Eve Grzybowski | May 28, 2012 | Philosophy, XSutras, xTmp, Yoga practices, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Yoga teaching
A friend and colleague has said that, rather than practising yoga to achieve a perfect posture, we should be aiming to be nicer people.
As simplistic as that sounds, it’s not simple.
The loftiest goal that I have for myself is to live life in love, i.e., to be a loving person. The trouble with having a high aim is that it makes an annoying foil for all opposing qualities. […]
by Eve Grzybowski | May 26, 2012 | Wisdom, XSutras, Yoga practices, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Yoga teaching
I admit to having temporarily abandoned my practice of asanas while I’ve been on a brief hiatus from my comfy yoga studio at Mitchell’s Island.
This current visit to Sydney is an opportunity for me to put into practice other limbs of the yoga tree, as in the Yama and Niyama. I’m thinking especially of the concept of non-greed (aparigraha). […]
by Eve Grzybowski | May 25, 2012 | Wisdom, XSutras, xTmp, Yoga practices, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Yoga teaching
One of the reasons students give sometimes for not practicing yoga at home is that they can’t remember the poses and/or the sequence that they fit in.
The original yogis – the ones who were reputed to dwell in forests and caves – were experimenters and not too worried about poses and sequences. Their interest was in the mind and consciousness, but modern yogis, we’re mainly, or at least that’s where we begin,
Memory can be a blessing and a curse. […]
by Eve Grzybowski | May 23, 2012 | XSutras, Yoga practices, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Yoga teaching
I am many, many times blessed at this time in my life for having unbroken, deep sleep almost every night.
Maybe my time is coming as I hear of huge numbers of seniors not sleeping well, and the problem worsening as they age.
There’s a hormonal reason for having difficulty sleeping at night that relates to melatonin and growth hormones production decreasing with age.
Less melatonin has many older adults feel sleepy in the early evening and wake up in the early morning. […]
by Eve Grzybowski | May 22, 2012 | XSutras, Yoga practices, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Yoga teaching
In the land where I was born, the U.S.A., the word fancy is not often used to mean imagination – as in “flights of fancy”. We would be more likely to say imagination or whim. […]
by Eve Grzybowski | May 21, 2012 | Healing, Wisdom, XSutras, xTmp, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Yoga teaching , Yoga Therapy
“How do we know where our limits are? By going over them.”
by Eve Grzybowski | May 20, 2012 | XSutras, Yoga practices, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Yoga teaching
Today I read what I consider to be a good post on a good blog site called Chaos Central. The writer is funny, thoughtful and thought-provoking. I might add that I agree with his point of view most times. On the topic of conspiracy theory, he wrote:
…I realised that the idea of writing something that might sway a conspiracy theorist is pointless. […]
by Eve Grzybowski | May 19, 2012 | Wisdom, XSutras, Yoga practices, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Yoga teaching
What are you doing on tonight, Saturday night? Going out for dinner, dancing, partying, at home recovering from the week, watching one screen or another?
Obviously, I’m seated at my mac, writing a post. I imagine I hear you murmuring to yourself , my god, she needs a life.
I used to have the life of an oftentimes wilder version of myself. In my thirties, I lived in New York, worked as a flight attendant, and par-teed. […]
by Eve Grzybowski | May 18, 2012 | Health, Philosophy, Wisdom, XSutras, Yoga practices, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Yoga teaching
Sometimes I think that minds were originally designed so we could be entertained by watching the play of our thoughts. But, then, a bug, a virus, a mutation somehow got in and corrupted the system. […]