Breathe Into Change A child becomes an adult, a student a teacher, an acquaintance a best friend. Change is a constant in all of our lives. We know this truth on a conceptual level, yet when we’re faced with change, we’re some how surprised. A death, a breakup, a job loss can all come as shocks, […]
The word “yoga” is derived from the the Sanskrit root yuj which means “to join” or “to yoke”; the related meaning is “to focus attention on” or “to use”. In philosophical term, the union of the individual self, jivatma, with the universal self, paramatma, is yoga. The union results in a pure and perfect state of consciousness in which the […]
Have you ever left a yoga class feeling a disconnect between how yoga is described by books and teachers and what you are actually doing in class? On the one hand, you are striving for “nirvana” and “absolute consciousness” while on the other hand, you are only being instructed on how to do the physical […]
בילדותי, הייתי נוהג ללכת לנהר. זה כפר קטן, הנהר מאוד מאוד עצל, כאילו אינו זורם כלל. בבוקר, כשהשמש עדיין אינה זורחת אינך יכול לראות אם הוא זורם משום שהוא כ”כ עצל ושקט. בבוקר, כשאיש איננו נמצא שם, והרוחצים עדיין לא באו, הוא דומם לחלוטין. גם הציפורים אינן שרות מוקדם בבוקר. אין קול, רק דומיה שוררת […]