Today was the first of school for three of my children—the fourth starts next week—I am always a bit anxious when school starts, this is mainly a hold-over…

Not quite, I simply made the decision at the beginning of May to take a little time off.  I knew that summer would be a fast paced dash,…

About a week ago, I ran into some emotional issues with my oldest son.  As some of you know, my oldest son has autism and because of his…

So, I have been puttering around the Wellsphere site—you can have a gander at my profile—and so far I’m liking what I see despite the fact the site…

Everyone say hello to Jim.  Jim is my stick figure and will help in illustrating asana as I write about them.  Note that the plural of asana is…

Oh look, another topic icon!  Over the weekend, Larisa Rozentals from Wellsphere asked me to think about allowing them to feature Everyday Yoga Blog on their site.  Judging…

I see yet another subject icon!  I realized that I also write about my journey toward instructor certification and what’s happening in my Saturday classes.  With that in…

I’m taking a little different tack with the blog.  At this point, this blog bounces from topic to topic and direction to direction much like a drop of…

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…