”Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.” —BKS Iyengar
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In An Introduction to Viniyoga, Kim and Gary Kraftsow discussed the origins and modern-day story of Viniyoga. In Viniyoga, the goal of the teacher is to help students find their own svadharma, or their interpersonal truth or walk.
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The Yoga Lineages series, which Kim envisioned and pitched to Yoga Alliance, began with two webinars on Integral Yoga. As event moderator, Kim first had a conversation with Swami Asokananda, President and Spiritual Director of the New York Integral Yoga Institute, and then hosted the subsequent master class.
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I pitched the concept of Yoga Lineages to Yoga Alliance thanks to the deep learnings and conversation that grew from the scientific research on yoga work Dr. Sat Bir Singh Khalsa and I have done for the organization. In its first iteration, Lineages will explore Integral Yoga, Viniyoga, Kundalini Yoga, Iyengar Yoga, Sivananda Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga, and Kripalu Yoga.
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“[I]t is a certainty that radical technologies create new definitions of old terms.” —Neil Postman
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To be elastic within a neutral state is to tune in and listen more deeply to these truths. And also these strategies and tactics. You have to stretch and therefore expand yourself and your perspective into the ideas, solutions, and deep, strong feelings and vision that BIPOC people necessarily should have prioritized by everyone for the creation of a better and more just world.
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This video will walk you through how to do Salamba Sarvangasana, or shoulderstand.
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This table was reproduced from ”Mind-Body Medicine and Immune System Outcomes: A Systematic Review,” Helané Wahbeh, Ashley Haywood, Karen Kaufman, and Heather Zwickey, National Institutes of Health, 2009.
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Addendum to the anniversary post.
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A year ago we were in free fall. Now we’re all nearly free again. What do these things have to do with yoga and mindfulness practice?
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The renewed BIPOC awakening in 2020 was one of its most searing insights, which is why I was was so glad and honored to moderate a webinar last week, Yoga and Society: Realities and Misperceptions Fueled by the Media, with Dr. Jennifer Webb and my colleague Sat Bir Singh Khalsa.
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Pranayama is a way to help you live because the first thing you ever do is breathe in, and the last thing you ever do is breathe out.
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Here’s a guide for where to buy your props for your 2021 practice (and beyond!).
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This is the Invocation to Patanjali that we chant at the beginning of my Iyengar yoga classes.
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Chakra 7 is the place where all unanswered questions go. Before science, which is the act of looking down and in, or focusing, or dharana, humanity looked up and out for answers. This act was to widen the eyes, to contemplate, to perform dhyana.
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Chakra 6 is light, which is transmitted most directly and influentially through the eyes into the brain and body.
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Chakra 5 is constituted by the waves of sound that transmute and concretize into the body through the process of occurring and then echoing through the body. This happens via the eardrums, which sound the internal wave from the external one.
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The emotional and mental awarenesses of the 4th chakra are: to be true, to love, to experience the opposite of hate. It contains/is non-harming and compassion as well.
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Chakra 3 is digestion and all its components. It therefore governs all digestive organs, the process of metabolism, absorption, and elimination, though elimination, especially the descending colon, is more associated with Chakra 1 and the earth, and the intestines are more associated with Chakra 2 because of their location and mostly liquid manner in which they function.
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Chakra 2 is experienced via the connective tissue and musculature outside of the bones, and through all the body’s fluids, including the blood, though the blood, arteries, and veins are experienced through the heart and lungs/4th chakra.
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