March 2012
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giving + receiving.
The moment you start to feel like your life is lacking is an indication that you need to give more. So spend 5 more minutes of your day really listening to what somebody is telling you. Offer a compliment or a smile. Commit more to your yoga practice. Relinquish a little bit of control over the circumstances of your life. The more that you give and the more that you can let go, the more space that...
February 2012
6 posts
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“no experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a...”
– rainer maria rilke
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“really get in touch with what you believe. your belief in something is the magic...”
– jackson kiddard
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on studentship.
A fact: I am constantly blown away by my students. I have a man who comes to my class at least once a week who has the tightest hips I have ever seen. And every time I teach a hip-opening pose, he sits down on a block with a smile on his face and breathes until the rest of the class has moved on. From him, I have learned humility. I have a woman come to my classes who has 13 children at home. Yet...
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in yoga, and in life...
the way things look is secondary to the way things feel.
(read: don’t push yourself past your limits in asana practice to attain the physical appearance of how you think a perfect pose should look. there is no perfect pose. the perfect pose is the one in which you are at your own edge of ease and effort.
and don’t conform to stereotypes about who and how you should be in the world....