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Long Time Gone
It’s been over four years since I’ve posted anything to this blog, but I’m still practicing. Other than the chair yoga I make my creative writing students do in the first five minutes of class, I’m not teaching any yoga, and that’s probably for the best. My calling lies elsewhere. Standing in the front of a shala and making the call for samasthiti isn’t meant for me.
In the years between my last…
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Ahimsa, Veganism, and Yoga Sutra II:35
Ahimsa, Veganism, and Yoga Sutra II:35
Ahimsa pratisthayam tat saminidhau vaira tyagah In the presence of one established in non-violence, all hostility ceases. Yoga Sutra II:35 Nonviolence (or non-harming, as ahimsa is sometimes translated) became an important ideal for me when I got sober in 2009. I didn’t want to be the “tornado ripping through other people’s lives” anymore. For the first time, I began to consider the effects of my…
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Book Review: Taylor Hunt's A Way From Darkness
Book Review: Taylor Hunt’s A Way From Darkness
In Taylor Hunt’s A Way From Darkness, the reader gets a first-person view of the author hitting bottom—hard—only to get up and find a new and meaningful way of life. Hunt’s decade-long journey from heroin addict to father, husband, and Level II Authorized Ashtanga Yoga teacher with hundreds of students is inspiring because of its honesty and appeal to tradition. He makes it very clear that he…
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The Wisdom to Know the Difference
The Wisdom to Know the Difference
“Patanjali’s dictum in sutra II.16, ‘heyam dukham anagatam,’ means that we need to avoid creating future suffering. If you intuitively feel that the performance of a particular posture will be detrimental, then take the responsibility of your own body into your own hands and do not perform it…you may have heard that yoga looks at the body as a temple. How will you worship the Divine in this…
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Yoga and Creative Writing
Yoga and Creative Writing
I held a workshop on two of my favorite topics at Butler University last week. I’ve always suspected a connection between yoga and writing, but never formally explored it until Mindy, the MFA in Creative Writing program administrator at Butler, invited me to kick off this semester’s Conversations@Efro series. Let me make one thing clear: I am not a fan of making a combo-pack out of yoga and…
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Look at these dedicated ladies doing their thing on a snowy morning at @cityoga. That front row is poppin'! (at CITYOGA School of Yoga and Health)
Here's second shift in the @cityoga Mysore room this morning. We had ten benders total! Going strong in 2016... (at CITYOGA School of Yoga and Health)
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On Injury and Practice
On Injury and Practice
I’m injured right now, which is only fair. I’ve written about injury often enough in an abstract sense, so now it’s my turn to experience the very literal effects that being hurt have on my practice. It’s my turn to learn about injury, equanimity, and compassion. My practice has been compromised since the end of October. Around that time, I had been catching my ankles with assistance and had just…
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I'm super excited to announce that I'll be at it again at @cityoga in 2016! I'll be teaching Tuesday and Thursday morning Mysore-style Ashtanga from 5:30 to 8:30 am starting on January 5. New to the practice? Your first class is on me. Drop in anytime during that three-hour window and we'll get started. No experience required, just willingness. The lovely @blonde_bohemian and @auriel21 will be handling the room with grace and love on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Morning at the mesa.
This sums up how Ben and I feel about the snow, respectively. (at Ribera, New Mexico)
Here's @dannydetox on his big 36th birthday. Playing a video game. Alone. (at Back Road Pizza)
Snowbound in the New Mexico wilderness and loving it. This is the view from the bathtub window.
Kiva fireplace, Christmas lights, packages, and a whole bunch of nature beyond. New Mexico is enchanting.
New Mexico sunrise.
I don't just practice yoga, I write about it, too. Then I read what I write. In public. Thanks, Butler MFA, for the opportunity to share my work alongside two talented writers at the one and only Akbar Reading Series. #amreading (at Broad Ripple Brewpub)