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Backbends – Open Hearts
November 1, 2009

Backbends – Open Hearts

Backbends in Yoga No better time than Thanksgiving to practice backbends. The practice of back bending is very powerful and can lead to more than a beautiful arc in the spine. When backbends are practiced appropriately we begin our movement with the breath. As we inhale we find greater length in the spine and as [...]
The Perfect Yoga Pose?
October 20, 2009

The Perfect Yoga Pose?

The Perfect Pose It is important to remember that yoga, as we know it today, with such emphasis on Asana, on the "perfect pose", is relatively a new phenomenon. Yoga Asana as it has been practiced for thousands of years is mostly about taking a seat in lotus position to meditate. In the early 1900s [...]
Karma Don’t Worry About it
May 20, 2009

Karma Don’t Worry About it

What is Karma? Karma is a Sanskrit word that means action, or deed. It is used to describe the seed of the cycle of cause and effect. It originates in ancient India and is seen in Hindu, Jain, Sikh and Buddhist philosophies. In these systems the effects of all deeds are viewed as actively shaping [...]
Standing on the Shoulders of our Teachers
December 20, 2008

Standing on the Shoulders of our Teachers

Standing on the Shoulders of Our Teachers The principle of practice in art is true for anything. One first studies, receives teachings and the more one practiced them, lives them, breathes them, one begins to be these teachings, to have a specific set of spices for his own recipe. This is only possible due to [...]
Cadavers, Meditation, Anatomy and the Body
June 20, 2008

Cadavers, Meditation, Anatomy and the Body

Living in the Body Sitting still, following the breath, the grass grows by itself. The stream outside flows softly, fish swimming with no direction. Art ideas flow to my mind, scrolls, bodies, and life stories, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Buddha, my breath. In and out it goes, softening the mind, softening the gaze, eyes open [...]
Yoga Teacher Training with Richard Freeman
June 20, 2008

Yoga Teacher Training with Richard Freeman

Yoga Teacher Training in Boulder  June 8th, 2008, Sunday morning, my birthday. What a great gift. Another teacher training. Sitting at the Yoga Workshop, Richard’s shala (practice room). The simple room, one large space is full of new faces sitting on Yoga mats awaiting the beginning of this month long teacher intensive. We have our [...]