Having learned to withdraw one’s senses, to allow the dust in one’s minds to settle, it is time to practice dharana.  In pratyahara one becomes entirely passive, allowing…

Pratyahara, what is it?  What does it mean?  Pratyahara is learning to disengage from the environment around us and from the noise within us.  The original concept was…

If you fail the Awareness Test as most people do, then it’s also possible that you missed the addition to the calendar on the right.  The calendar now…

When was the last time that you heard silence?  As I thought about this yesterday, I stopped to listen.  No one else was in the house but me…

Moving slowly from pose to pose can prove to be a challenge on a number of fronts.  How long do you hold each pose?  Five seconds?  Ten?  Twenty…

I’ll be honest, when an email from Brooke Maran hit my mailbox last Thursday to tell me about “our new Yoga book that we have made available online,”…

What happened the first time you tried vrksasana?  I’ll bet you fell out of the pose didn’t you?  That’s great!  All trees fall eventually.  Did you, however, stop…

What is the Dark Side?  It is the urge to hold that pose a little longer, bend a little deeper, twist a little further.  Resist that urge.  Wait,…

Life is full of learning if we simply look to find it.  I was exceptionally disappointed Saturday due to the exceptionally poor attendance at Saturday’s session.  Immediately self-doubt…

At first glance, tonight’s class was a dismal failure.  SegoLilly and MO were the only ones that came to class.  The only reason I suggested an evening class…