by Eve Grzybowski | Feb 17, 2019 | Yoga practices
There are countless events that can interrupt a disciplined routine. Extended holidays will do it. Being laid low with an illness, or suffering an emotional upset. Moving house and even changing jobs are other meddlesome events.
I tell myself that after taking a long trip, I will to get back into my practice as soon as I’m on home ground. Yet, it doesn’t always happen that way. As the folks of Westeros are prone to say, ‘Words are wind.’
All that matters in the end is that you take action. Getting right back on the mat and into a regular routine.
by Eve Grzybowski | Sep 25, 2017 | Yoga practices
At present, early in the season, it’s hot and sultry. I feel lazy. I don’t want to do anything except lie in my hammock, dozing off with an unchallenging book.
Returning from a long overseas winter holiday has done nothing to improve my discipline. It’s been so very hard to kickstart my practice after two months of travelling. Yet I have done it now.
Getting back into the routine of writing weekly blog posts has been harder. I’ve been sitting at my computer and immediately think of chores: watering, laundry, grocery shopping. […]
by Eve Grzybowski | Mar 2, 2017 | Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Yoga teaching
You can start Yoga at any stage in your life. More importantly though, for your quality of life to improve and discipline become more natural, you can increase your commitment to this most beautiful practice anytime – especially today!
by Eve Grzybowski | Oct 6, 2014 | Wisdom, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
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The Big Question
I wish I had more wisdom when it comes to advising yoga students about how to develop discipline or adopt a yogic lifestyle. I’ve been asked questions on this subject many times over the years and usually by people who have the best intentions.
The other night at a dinner party, I realised my weakness in being a yoga advisor. A guest who is a friend and student asked me how I balance enjoying the indulgences of life with the practice of yoga. […]
by Eve Grzybowski | Jul 28, 2014 | Health, Wisdom, Yoga practices
It’s hard. It’s very hard. It’s just plain hard, and that’s all there is to it.
When you fall off the yoga practice wagon and try to clambour back on, it’s difficult to find the muscles you need.
I’m talking about those events that upset your disciplined routine: going on extended holidays, being laid low with an illness, moving house, or suffering a big emotional upset.
I have an expectation that because I said I’m going to get back into my practice as soon as I’m on home ground that I will. No so. […]
by Eve Grzybowski | May 22, 2013 | Humour, Wisdom, Yoga practices
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Having just completed teaching one workshop, I’m now mentally preparing for teaching in the Yoga Therapy Intensive in Byron Bay.
However, I’m following my own advice to the driven, stressed-out people who take up yoga to relax: chill a little. You may have had the experience of being so intensely productive that you use up all your reserves and end up flat on your back, unable to do anything.
So, for the time being I’m dawdling. […]
by Eve Grzybowski | Mar 1, 2013 | Wisdom, Yoga practices, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
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Do you consider life a gift? I know people for whom life is hard, and, regarding such a gift, they might say, ‘Aw, you shouldn’t have.’ I’ve felt like that at times, but fortunately I don’t now.
Still, what’s a life for? […]
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by Eve Grzybowski | Feb 22, 2013 | Philosophy, Wisdom, XSutras, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Do you ever set off on a journey not knowing exactly where you’ll end up? Even when you embark on a what you think is a certain path, you still may not arrive at your imagined destination.
That can be a good outcome, a bad one, or simply what is.
When I started interacting with Patanjali on this blog – teasing out each of his tightly packed Sutra – I did it as an exercise in discipline. […]
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by Eve Grzybowski | Apr 1, 2012 | Anatomy, Yoga practices, Yoga teaching
I was just heading to bed, my body not quite knowing what the “real” time is since we have just gone off daylight savings last night.
Of course, I know the real time. The clocks have been set back. […]
by Eve Grzybowski | Feb 9, 2012 | Wisdom, Yoga practices, Yoga teaching
There’s nothing as energising as hanging out with people who are passionate about what they do in life. Many yogis who are drawn to deepen their involvement with yoga decide to do teacher training and then become even more enthusiastic about this age-old discipline. Would that the love affair could last forever, but sometimes the original passion pales, for various reasons: it’s hard to make a living, the physical work is too hard, self-doubts arise. Something else can happen. A yoga teacher can get jaded after some years and, as a result, her teaching becomes dull. […]
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by Eve Grzybowski | Jan 21, 2012 | Community, Yoga practices, Yoga teaching
If you love yoga and have thought about enrolling in a training so you could dive deeper into this discipline that has infinite depth, just do it.
by Eve Grzybowski | Jan 9, 2012 | Wisdom
Today I threw myself in the deep end.
Perhaps this is something many people are doing in January, having made a New Year’s resolution to take up yoga for the first time.
I sympathise with any budding yogis out there as I am taking up a new activity this week: printmaking.
It would be easier for me if I had conquered my competitive nature; it would be more fun if I weren’t comparing myself to the other eleven individuals in my class. […]
