When a person comes to the point in their life’s journey when they’re in need of healing, and they’re prescribed “PRESENCE” as a remedy, they start up a dedicated practice of stewing, brooding, and worrying over what ails them. And this obsession with their problem… surprise! It seems to make it worse.
What better way to ground into fall than with health and a sense of accomplishment? The eleventh annual Yoga Union Yoga Challenge begins Oct 1st, 2022. We’ve hosted the yoga challenge every year. We do it primarily for the three reasons: It reminds us of the joy that consistent yoga practice brings into our lives.…
Plenty of well meaning teachers fail to understand the difference between inquiry-based instruction and authority-based instruction. Instead of taking a backseat and letting student’s determine their own course of education, they steal the wheel, pushing students into the backseat themselves, where in essence they’re told to “sit down, watch and learn.” When a teacher interrupts this natural learning process, students are forced to engage in someone else’s adventure, one no longer of their choosing. Either way, over time their interest is lost and with it, their desire to learn, develop, grow, and evolve.
Most of us are feeling a sense of instability in our environment. Structures that once held us together are falling apart, and some of us is falling with them. In times like these, there’s only one thing that has the power to get us through. It’s time to discover that power. We all struggle to…
If we’re trying to become more flexible, we might very well end up exploiting our mobility at one particular range of motion (in yoga it’s usually the hamstrings), while completely neglecting the other end. If we’re maintaining and generating greater ranges of motion over time, we can stay mobile and enjoy all the benefits mobility brings, into our elder years.
