…to people who are nervous about the procedure. I asked my friend Judy who has also undergone bi-lateral hip surgery to share her experience. Her story is here. https://eveyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/judystorypdf.pdf If…
…new website about to be launched. Then when my elevated shoulders and computer neck needed saving, I went out to one of our vegetable patches to weed, hoe, and whip…
…coined by the environmental activist and Buddhist scholar, Joanna Macy. She describes the Great Turning in this way: Right now a shift of comparable scope and magnitude is occurring. It’s…
…studying at Patanjali’s knee, and communing with friends, students, and my writing audience is the value of presence. I may fall short of the mark of being fully aware at…
…such as friendliness, compassion and contentment can be enquired into through samyama. Thus, one can learn how to strengthen a chosen quality.* *Patanjali’s Yogasutras, translation and commentary by T.K.V. Desikachar…
…to be ‘low-tech, high-yield, highly scalable, and cheaper than planting new saplings.’ It’s a strategy that’s being followed in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. Two organisations, Conservation International and the International Institute…
…practices that I try to bring into everyday life to help me cultivate the quality of Ahimsa. On the mat. As my yoga teacher taught me, I practice doing poses…
Why Caveat Emptor? It’s hard to imagine that ‘caveat emptor’—let the buyer beware–should apply to yoga teacher training. I mean to say, aren’t teacher trainings and yoga practice meant to…
…watering, our beautiful, established gardens have and will continue to suffer. Our environmentally conscientious household has already implemented water conservation. Shower buckets, kitchen sink containers, fewer and shorter showers, less…
…study. Self-study is not really study of oneself, according to Australian Sutra commentator Vyn Bailey. He describes it as: ….study I myself get involved in. I don’t just listen to…
…ourselves to ourselves which is a path to wisdom. Svadhyayat-ista-devata-samprayogah Union with the chosen divinity comes from the study of self through sacred texts.* *The Essence of Yoga – Reflections…
…follows from what we have learned in asana practice. We sit comfortably, yet erect, stable and relaxed. Sutra II:50 suggests ways of observing your breath: It involves regulation of the…