Category Archives: Authentic Yoga Training July 2010

Thank You Tao Porchon-Lynch!

The only air flowing in the NYC summer hot room at Strala Yoga today was the breath of many yogis who were gathered to soak up the nearly 90 year old Tao Porchon-Lynch’s wisdom. Even though I could hardly hear Tao with her soft voice in the large studio, I was struck and inspired by [...]
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Competition Part One, the Question: Is it healthy?

Who are you in competition with? Your job? The people on the yoga mat next to you? Your diet? Yourself? Do you even know whether or not you’re in competition? Perhaps you don’t. We are trained to look at competition as something we just do, so much so that we unconsciously act from it quite [...]
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Working My Way Out of a Tweet Length World

I tweet a lot. 140 characters to say something profound. Easy. And a great way to avoid a coherent, grounded manifestation. This is what I just realized as I sat down to write a blog entry entitled, “Compassion Over Competition: Practicing Yoga with Love & Light”. I have all the pieces that would be great [...]
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Summer Reading List: Studious Self Here I come!

Just when I claimed I was done reading books, comes a reading list for the yoga training I’m doing in July, and a recommendations from Tori. Looks like I’m living my own tweets: “Ever say never only to find that is exactly when?”, “Give an ultimatum, and you’ll receive the opposite.”, “Letting yourself have one [...]
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“so you’re gonna teach yoga now?”

“So you’re gonna teach yoga now?” This is the reaction I’ve been getting when I tell people about the yoga training I’m taking this July. My internal response has been amusement and wonder: why is it that we’re so x+y=z oriented? Of course, it makes sense because logic does exist, but the type of math [...]
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My Next Step: I’m taking the Authentic Yoga Training with Tara Stiles at Strala Yoga

Part of the program is: “Weekly Blog Assignments.  Set up a blog if you haven’t already (Blogger.com is easy), write about your experience with yoga (broadly – this doesn’t need to be about class), and get your friends to start reading and joining in the conversation.” I’m already ahead of the game because I have [...]
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