A Yoga Teaching: Truth Telling The Yamas are the fundamental renunciation of a life based on fear. They are the change. The Niyamas are the fundamental practices that sustain a life based on love. They sustain the change.Rolf Gates...

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Engaging the Subtle Body: Pelvic & Diaphragm Tension Bands The seven myofascial tension bands universally situate in all human bodies, which arguably could be proof that we are all one. These connective tissue bands are unnatural straps holding tension just u...

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A Yoga Teaching: Who Am I NOW? A while back, I blogged about this very question: Who Am I? From a yoga perspective and my own personal experience, I recognize the importance of re-evaluating my understanding of who I am on an ongoi...

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Engaging the Subtle Body: 7 Myofascial Tension Bands 7 Tension Bands or Straps:  Pubic Bone 2. Inguinal   3. Navel   4. Diaphragm 5. Collar Bone   6. Jaw   7. Eye Myofascia is the flexible network of tissue that surrounds, cushions, and supports muscles...

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A Yoga Teaching: The Power of Positive I recently read the following quote in a 2005 book written by Mary Doria Russell -- When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and lov...

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Engaging the Subtle Body — Whole Spine Practice Over the past several weeks, I shared Yoga Actions focused on creating space in the major spinal joints -- sacrum-tailbone, lumbar-sacrum, thoracic-lumbar, and C7-thoracic. Using your awareness and br...

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Engaging the Subtle Body — Cervical-Thoracic Joint Over the past several weeks, we practiced asanas utilizing yoga actions that engage the subtle body -- Pranamaya Kosha (energy body), Manomaya Kosha (mental-emotional body), and Vijnanamaya Kosha (wis...

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A Yoga Teaching: Stillness and Silence Stillness within one's body and silence within one's mind are outcomes of a dedicated yoga practice that includes asanas (postures), pratyahara (sensory withdrawal), pranayama (breath regulation), and...

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Engaging the Subtle Body — Lumbar-thoracic Joint In two previous posts, Tailbone-sacral and Sacral-lumbar joints, I wrote about the significance of moving beyond our physical reliance on the Annamaya Kosha (muscular-skeletal flexibility and strength...

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A Yoga Teaching: Living Your Genius In this life cycle of seasons and snowy months, winter is the time for hibernation (rest and reflection), and January is the month for stocktaking. Each year, I spend the month of January reflecting o...

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Engaging the Subtle Body — Lumbar-Sacral Joint Recently, I blogged about engaging the subtle body (Pranamaya, Manomaya, and Vijnanamaya Koshas) using our breath and awareness as yoga actions intended to awaken our innate healing potential. Practic...

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A Yoga Teaching: Engaging the Subtle Body In yoga philosophy, human beings have three bodies -- the gross or physical body, the astral or subtle body, and the causal or spiritual body. Here is a breakdown: The Gross/Physical Body is the tangi...

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Ways to Build Resilience Amidst Uncertainty by guest blogger Chloe Pearson In a world where unpredictability is the norm, many people feel stretched thin by rapid change, shifting expectations, and nonstop information flow. Strengthening mental...

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A Yoga Teaching: We Are Brahman 1.1 They have attained the goal who realizeBrahman as the supreme reality,The source of truth, wisdom, and boundless joy.They see the Lord in the cave of the heartAnd are granted all the blessings of ...

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A Yoga Teaching: We Are Brahman 1.1 They have attained the goal who realizeBrahman as the supreme reality,The source of truth, wisdom, and boundless joy.They see the Lord in the cave of the heartAnd are granted all the blessings of ...

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A Yoga Teaching: Everything is Elemental As the Upanishads teach us, everything is elemental and thus deemed sacred or holy. That which is sacred to life is defined as being a person or thing worthy of awe and respect or intended wholly for ...

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A Yoga Teaching: The Mystery of Death & Rebirth 1 When body and mind grow weak, the Self gathers in all thepowers of life and descends with them into the heart. As pranaleaves the eye, it ceases to see. 2 “S/He is becoming one,” say the wise; “s/he...

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Perennial Joy or Passing Pleasure I just returned home from facilitating a workshop in which participants Crafted their Soul's Portrait. Their guiding focus for completing this task was to answer the question, "Who am I?" In initial a...

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Integral Yoga: Action and Meditation Life presents us with daily choices from which we consciously or unconsciously decide our future. In the early years of my own spiritual awakening, one of those choices presented itself as such -- stu...

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Unity The word ‘Upani?had’ is supposed to connote a secret instruction or a hidden doctrine, secret and hidden in the sense that it purports to reveal the invisible background or reality behind the visible ...

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We Are All Creators Those who do good become good; those who do harm become bad. Good deeds make one pure; bad deeds make one impure. You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your...

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A Yoga Teaching: Outer Nature = Inner Nature The nature of life is such that what we view outside of ourselves is happening in our inner world. That is to say, if we see truth, beauty, and goodness around us, we are experiencing it within. Our p...

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10 Must-Try Yoga Poses for Instant Stress Relief by guest blogger Sara M Stress in 2025 feels like it’s everywhere, right? Between never-ending emails, social media drama, and the weird pressure to always be "on," it’s no wonder our minds and bodies...

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A Yoga Teaching: Effortless Effort Real depth doesn’t come from sheer force (grunt yoga), but from the delicate art of balancing effort and surrender. "Effortless effort", as described by B.K.S. Iyengar, refers to a state of yoga pract...

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A Yoga Teaching: Who Am I? Over the lifespan of human existence, many 'thought models' have emerged through which we attempt to understand who we are -- psychological, biological, social, philosophical, yogic, religious, etc. I...

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How to Feel Whole: Small Shifts, Big Payoffs by guest blogger, Chloe Pearson Some days you wake up hollow. Nothing’s wrong, but everything feels just out of reach. That morning coffee doesn’t hit right, the mirror glares back too honestly, and t...

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A Yoga Teaching: Selfless vs. Selfish Service Letting go of attachment to the fruits of one’s actions, one is ever content and does not have needs. Though one appears to be doing things (karma), actually the higher Self is the doer. Bhagavad Gita...

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A Yoga Teaching: True Knowledge vs. Facts In the ancient Yoga tradition, a spiritual teacher is called a Sat Guru, or teacher of truth. The word “guru” has two parts: “gu,” that which hides our true light, and “ru,” that which removes the cov...

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A Yoga Teaching: Inside vs. Outside In my mid- to late-twenties, I suffered with depression. In retrospect, I had undergone three S.E.E.s (significant emotional events) -- my father's death, the end of my romantic relationship, and the ...

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