Recent Posts Tagged With 'asana'

• Bad Little Yogi

  Posted on Sunday August 23rd, 2009 at 20:14 in consciousness, yama, asana, niyama, "b.k.s. iyengar", "light on yoga", "bhagavad gita"

  I wrote about the twelfth paragraph of the introduction to Light on Yoga about a month ago, and I've been thinking about the thirteenth (below) ever since. I've been resistant to writing about it. At first I thought that maybe I just wasn't "evolved"...

• Honoring the Inside

  Posted on Sunday April 5th, 2009 at 10:29 in yoga, senses, ashtanga, yama, asana, niyama, pratyahara, "ashtanga yoga"

  The five senses are used to quest outward, tasting, touching, smelling, hearing and seeing our way through the world. Even as we are learning about the first four limbs of yoga (and their components) we are using our senses going outward to integrate...

• Asana with Care

  Posted on Wednesday March 4th, 2009 at 20:18 in ashtanga, asana, "yoga"

  When I was first learning the primary series in Ashtanga yoga (of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois) I would lay on my mat at the end, totally covered in sweat, good and hot, and felt as if I had just wrestled a big gorilla. I was the big gorilla. There is a good...