Posts Tagged "Yoga"
The Yogi as artist
Imagine if you will a ‘few’ thousand years ago and a group of yogis are sitting around in a glade near the Holy Ganges talking it up on the shape of the world, and their chakras and the “Why-are-we-here?” and “Who-am –I?” questions that we still explore to this day. They begin to stir from their seated postures. First an arm perhaps, a leg instinctively extends to remove the...
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What If ?
Reading at Anara practice 12/6/2012 What if? What if religion was each other? If our practice was our life? If prayer was our words? What if the Temple was the Earth? If forests were our church? If holy water the rivers, lakes and oceans? What if meditation was our relationships? If the Teacher was life? If wisdom was self-knowledge? If Love was the center of our being? What if God was...
Read MoreWhat is a Yogi?
The Offering by Linaji Reading at Anara practice 11/26/2012 “What does it take to actually be a yogi, really? Not spiritual attainment or asana performance, but the beautiful embrace of your own reality. All the ancients were going on about was “What is existence?” and “How do we realize it?” The point is: you are existence, you are the truth, you are the Veda (which...
Read MoreA Yogi’s Welcome
Reading at Anara practice 11/21/2012 Welcome Please allow your stories to be left at the door with your shoes. You may pick them up if you really want them on your way back out. They are not required to enter here. Kiss your ego and allow it to be still. As you achieve your comfortable seated posture and consciously take in your next breath, Also take in this assurance… There is no need to...
Read MoreThe Essence of My Practice
Reading at Anara practice 10/8/2012 My practice moves from edge to edge, exploring the limits of a stretch, the inner realm of energy and breath. Each movement plumbs new depths of self-awareness. Who am I now, and now, and now? Who holds this pose with single-pointed focus, or loses the thread of breath and stops to find the center once again? Have I reached my full expression, or is there...
Read MoreJAI GANESHA!!
Cut from practice mix at Koloa 10/10/2011 (if this interests you check out our Inspiratorium – music-yoga to purchase) JAI...
Read MoreThe Essence of My Practice
Reading at Koloa practice 9/15/2011 My practice moves from edge to edge, exploring the limits of a stretch, the inner realm of energy and breath. Each movement plumbs new depths of self-awareness. Who am I now, and now, and now? Who holds this pose with single-pointed focus, or loses the thread of breath and stops to find the center once again? Have I reached my full expression, or is there...
Read MoreJai Ho! Moms!
Well, once again our Koloa yoga Ohana is honored with another creative force in the making, another life lovingly ushered into the earth plane as yoga mom Giselle Fabricante has “upped the bar” as it were by continuing her strong weekly vinyasa practice now 36 weeks and counting. Totally Inspiring. Remember…Motherhood/parenthood – the “REAL” yoga!:o)!! Our...
Read MoreMcYoga…
Okay brother and Sista Yogis and yoginis – in this post we’re going to lay upon you a full length video that you can view at your leisure that concerns itself with the evolution of Hatha Yoga in the west, specifically the U.S. Be sure to note the story we have also published on this blog a bit earlier in the year called Yoga Competition, a humorous fictional tale , but after...
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On the Day Before You Came…
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