miloyoga

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Let me teach you!

I’m currently teaching semi-private classes in Zurich and would love to hear from you if you’re interested in joining us. You can reach me at [email protected]

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Connecting Dots from Los Angeles to Zurich

My current project. Visit me here until I get back to teaching (in Zurich).

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You are neither earth, nor water, nor fire, nor air, nor space.  In order to attain liberation, know the Self as the witness of all these  and as Consciousness itself. - - Astavakra Samhita 1:3 #astavakra #samhita #consciousness #liberation #moksha #atman  #ॐ  My name is Michael Falck. I’m a hatha yoga teacher currently on the road from LA to Switzerland. This is day 85 of my #100dayproject, where for 100 consecutive days I practice, take a picture or video, write/narrate, and post. #the100dayproject #100daysofrajayoga  #hatha #raja #yoga #om #prana #asana #yogaeveryday #dailyyoga #namaste #stopdropandyoga #inspiration

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Sirsasana II. The lack of hands interlaced behind your head opens to door to a more intense search for the vertical line. Something to enjoy once you no longer fear it - allowing you to interact with previous versions of yourself that were terrified of falling over backwards into the void. Be kind to them. The you of today will once be just like them.    #sirsasana #tripod #headstand  #ॐ  My name is Michael Falck. I’m a hatha yoga teacher currently on the road from LA to Switzerland. This is day 84 of my #100dayproject, where for 100 consecutive days I practice, take a picture or video, write/narrate, and post. #the100dayproject #100daysofrajayoga  #hatha #raja #yoga #om #prana #asana #yogaeveryday #dailyyoga #namaste #stopdropandyoga #inspiration (at Clarkdale Park)

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The prana moves always in the heart; the apana in the sphere of anus; the samana in the navel region; the udana in the throat; and the vyana pervades the whole body. These are the principal vayus, known as pranadi.  They belong to the inner body.  - - Gheranda Samhita 5:61-62 #gheranda #samhita #vayus #prana #apana # samana #udana #vyana  #ॐ  My name is Michael Falck. I’m a hatha yoga teacher currently on the road from LA to Switzerland. This is day 83 of my #100dayproject, where for 100 consecutive days I practice, take a picture or video, write/narrate, and post. #the100dayproject #100daysofrajayoga  #hatha #raja #yoga #om #prana #asana #yogaeveryday #dailyyoga #namaste #stopdropandyoga #inspiration (at Arches National Park)

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Here follow guidelines on how to be remade whole.  Wholeness consists of a complete grasp and command over the process of being and becoming aware.  Then the one who sees sees themselves as they really are.  - -  Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras 1:1-3 (Translation by Kofi Busia) #patanjali #sutra #kofi #busia #citta #vritti #niroda #ॐ  My name is Michael Falck. I’m a hatha yoga teacher currently on the road from LA to Switzerland. This is day 82 of my #100dayproject, where for 100 consecutive days I practice, take a picture or video, write/narrate, and post. #the100dayproject #100daysofrajayoga  #hatha #raja #yoga #om #prana #asana #yogaeveryday #dailyyoga #namaste #stopdropandyoga #inspiration (at Pine Tree Arch, Arches National Park)

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Of bodies of water, I am the ocean. - - Bhagavad Gita 10:24 #bhagavad #gita #ॐ  My name is Michael Falck. I’m a hatha yoga teacher currently on the road from LA to Switzerland. This is day 81 of my #100dayproject, where for 100 consecutive days I practice, take a picture or video, write/narrate, and post. #the100dayproject #100daysofrajayoga  #hatha #raja #yoga #om #prana #asana #yogaeveryday #dailyyoga #namaste #stopdropandyoga #inspiration #ocean #water (at Sand Dune Arch, Arches National Park)

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Janufalak Akarshan (kneecap contraction) is the fifth practice in the #Pawanmuktasana I Series.  This series of joint movements help with rheumatism, arthritis, high blood pressure and with alleviating #vata imbalance.  The entire series moves through all the major joints in the body and is a wonderful way to calm your nervous system.  With this practice, the work is focused on isolating the movement in the kneecap and inhale with the contracting motion, exhale with the releasing motion. .   #kneecap #janufalak #akarshan #ॐ  My name is Michael Falck. I’m an LA-based hatha yoga teacher. This is day 80 of my #100dayproject, where for 100 consecutive days I practice, take a picture or video, write/narrate, and post. #the100dayproject #100daysofrajayoga  #hatha #raja #yoga #om #prana #asana #yogaeveryday #dailyyoga #namaste #stopdropandyoga #inspiration #biharschoolofyoga

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According to the Bihar School of Yoga, hridaya mudra diverts the flow of prana from the hands to the heart area, improving the vitality of the heart.  It is beneficial for the heart.  As the heart is the center of emotion, this mudra helps release pent up emotion and unburden the heart.   #hridaya #mudra #heart #ॐ  My name is Michael Falck. I’m an LA-based hatha yoga teacher. This is day 79 of my #100dayproject, where for 100 consecutive days I practice, take a picture or video, write/narrate, and post. #the100dayproject #100daysofrajayoga  #hatha #raja #yoga #om #prana #asana #yogaeveryday #dailyyoga #namaste #stopdropandyoga #inspiration 

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In asana, can you use your mind to analyze your body the way an art historian would analyze an old master painting? Can you develop a vocabulary of sensations to describe and categorize what your body is experiencing at this very moment? Do you have the patience to keep looking when it gets ‘boring’? Do have enough interest to keep track of those sensations and remember them from one time to the next? In other words can you muster that extra bit of discrimination that distinguishes the amateur from the true seeker? #observation v #distraction #special v #general #practice v #theory #ॐ  My name is Michael Falck. I’m an LA-based hatha yoga teacher. This is day 78 of my #100dayproject, where for 100 consecutive days I practice, take a picture or video, write/narrate, and post. #the100dayproject #100daysofrajayoga  #hatha #raja #yoga #om #prana #asana #yogaeveryday #dailyyoga #namaste #stopdropandyoga #inspiration  (at San Rafael Swell)

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What do you expect when you practice yoga?  I would like to suggest that the less you expect, the more space you leave for the unexpected to happen.  Mentally you leave a wide open and generously tilled field for the practice to sprout whatever it has to offer.  Easier said than done? Yes, absolutely. Why even practice if you don’t have something in mind you hope to gain?  Because practicing without a goal in mind will let your mind discover more than you thought was there. #expectation v #surrender #inspiration v #perspiration #ॐ  My name is Michael Falck. I’m an LA-based hatha yoga teacher. This is day 77 of my #100dayproject, where for 100 consecutive days I practice, take a picture or video, write/narrate, and post. #the100dayproject #100daysofrajayoga  #hatha #raja #yoga #om #prana #asana #yogaeveryday #dailyyoga #namaste #stopdropandyoga #inspiration  📷 by @ashlybird

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When the floor is a mess because moving flushed out all the dust bunnies and the table calls you as if for a treatment A supine twist squeezes out the tension from schlepping, lugging, stemming and heaving The eagle rests before taking flight #supine #twist #supta #garudasana #garuda #ॐ  My name is Michael Falck. I’m an LA-based hatha yoga teacher. This is day 75 of my #100dayproject, where for 100 consecutive days I practice, take a picture or video, write/narrate, and post. #the100dayproject #100daysofrajayoga  #hatha #astanga #raja #yoga #om #prana #asana #yogaeveryday #dailyyoga #namaste #stopdropandyoga  📷: @ashlybird

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In two days we leave LA to embark on a road trip across the US and beyond.  As we are getting ready to leave our nest and fly away, I know there is no one I would rather go on this adventure with than @ashlybird.   #bakasana #crow #❤️ #ॐ  My name is Michael Falck. I’m an LA-based hatha yoga teacher. This is day 74 of my #100dayproject, where for 100 consecutive days I practice, take a picture or video, write/narrate, and post. #the100dayproject #100daysofrajayoga  #hatha #astanga #raja #yoga #om #prana #asana #yogaeveryday #dailyyoga #namaste #stopdropandyoga 

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As in innumerable cups full of water, many reflections of the sun are seen, but the substance is the same; similarly individuals, like cups, are innumerable, but the vivifying spirit like the sun is one.  - - Siva Sanhita I:35 @sarahyoga and @leorawp to me you are the living example of the importance of community to the practice of yoga. My practice and my life would not be the same if I hadn’t had a chance to see the sun reflected in you. Today was just the end of an era.  Making way for new adventures, new departures, new beginnings.  I will miss you but find great comfort in knowing that “in reality we share one heart".   #sangha #ॐ  My name is Michael Falck. I’m an LA-based hatha yoga teacher. This is day 73 of my #100dayproject, where for 100 consecutive days I practice, take a picture or video, write/narrate, and post. #the100dayproject #100daysofrajayoga  #hatha #astanga #raja #yoga #om #prana #asana #yogaeveryday #dailyyoga #namaste #stopdropandyoga #friends 

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Mandukasana stretches the muscles of the groin and pelvis.  But you already knew that…  What else does this pose do? It takes our awareness and, in no subtle manner, pulls it to the lower abdomen, groin, hips and pelvis.  It pulls it to where we hold our stuff together.  Our heart rates may vary, our breath may become shallow, but only in the most extreme circumstances do we actually loose control of our bowels.  As it relates to control, that is our innermost core.  And going into a pose that will not cease to bring your attention to this bastion of control is uncomfortable.  The things that go on here are hidden and we’re not supposed to shine a light on them.  Doing so can be testing, but it is ultimately rewarding as it can lead to a softening without which it can be hard to move forward.  #mandukasana #frog #ॐ  My name is Michael Falck. I’m an LA-based hatha yoga teacher. This is day 72 of my #100dayproject, where for 100 consecutive days I practice, take a picture or video, write/narrate, and post. #the100dayproject #100daysofrajayoga  #hatha #astanga #raja #yoga #om #prana #asana #yogaeveryday #dailyyoga #namaste #stopdropandyoga

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Anjali mudra is a mudra of devotion and recognition of the divine, whether that is in the person you’re greeting or in whatever you may be praying, contemplating, or meditating on. It also brings together and balances the feminine (left hand - mother, sister) and masculine (right hand - father, brother) connections in our lives.  To me it holds within a simple gesture every possibility.  The palms are touching but there is still space there. Enough for an entire universe of potentiality.  There is an exchange among opposites but equals.  The recognition of similarity in difference. In that minute space between my hands EVERYTHING IS HAPPENING. #anjali #mudra #ॐ  My name is Michael Falck. I’m an LA-based hatha yoga teacher. This is day 71 of my #100dayproject, where for 100 consecutive days I practice, take a picture or video, write/narrate, and post. #the100dayproject #100daysofrajayoga  #hatha #astanga #raja #yoga #om #prana #asana #yogaeveryday #dailyyoga #namaste #stopdropandyoga

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This marma is called apalapa. It controls the nervous system and the nerve flow to the arms, as well as vyana vayu. Working on this marma with massage, using the fingers for easier access, relieves muscular and nervous tension to the shoulders, back and neck. #apalapa #marma #ॐ  My name is Michael Falck. I’m an LA-based hatha yoga teacher. This is day 70 of my #100dayproject, where for 100 consecutive days I practice, take a picture or video, write/narrate, and post. #the100dayproject #100daysofrajayoga  #hatha #astanga #raja #yoga #om #prana #asana #ayurveda #yogaeveryday #dailyyoga #namaste #stopdropandyoga