ADHESIONS AND BEYOND : with Isabel Spradlin
It’s so easy to feel trapped . . . in our bodies, in our minds, in our lives, in our perceived and real limitations. And it is so delicious and healing and necessary to find those wide expanses of healing space “beyond” us but actually inside us, snuggled up so close that sometimes it’s hard … Continue reading …
I took a huge leap and lead a meditation over the phone about a week ago. I was super scared it wouldn’t work. As a leader, there’s a certain aliveness that informs or feeds what happens in the meditation, where it goes, what we do while we’re there. A good meditation is sort of a … Continue reading …
In my last post I wrote about the joy of engaging with the softer side of abdominal care, the joyful side of it. And I was reflecting that this is something that yoga helps us to do so beautifully. Yoga is so intimately connected into our abdomens, not just through the physical poses that I … Continue reading …
I think most people don’t realize just how psychological of a practice yoga is. And I don’t mean examining your fear of going upside down for handstand, or finding out what emotion is blocking your twists. I mean, in order to really practice yoga we always have to be examining and working with ourselves – … Continue reading …
I had a deep inner opening while teaching yoga last night. It was an accident – I’m never expecting the expansions when they arrive – and I actively try to avoid them while teaching. Classes are not my time, they’re my students’ time. But, when inner life comes, it comes. It doesn’t care what time … Continue reading …