posted by Charlotte on January 30, 2012 |
Homeless Volunteer Work: Generosity that Makes a Difference From now through the end of March, a percentage of Hugger Mugger’s net sales will go to The Road Home. This week’s post focuses on how our Salt Lake yoga community can enrich people’s lives through homeless volunteer work. I taught yoga at Salt Lake’s First Unitarian Church for 25 years. For the last 20 of those years, I gladly shared my
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posted by Charlotte on January 25, 2012 |
Teachers say it all the time, but what does “Listen to your body” mean? About 20 years ago I attended a workshop with a well-known yoga teacher. We were working up to Urdva Dhanurasana (Upward Bow), stretching our quads and preparing our shoulders for at least 30 minutes before we started practicing the most rudimentary backbends. By the time we finished Setu Bandha Sarvangasana (Bridge Pose) I was feeling warmed
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posted by Charlotte on January 18, 2012 |
Traditional Tools for Preventing Yoga Injuries Yesterday, I wrote about the issues inherent in dropping one component of a larger system of practice into a culture with a vastly different mindset. If you’d like to catch up on this discussion, you can read the post here. Today I’d like to talk about how Western yoga might look different if we approached practice from the perspective of its original intentions. Traditionally,
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posted by Charlotte on January 17, 2012 |
Yoga Injuries II: What Happens when an Ancient Eastern Practice Meets Modern Western Sensibilities? While much of the yoga blogosphere has moved on from the yoga injury discussion of last week, the issue is still percolating for me—probably because I’ve been thinking about this a good, long while. Last week I wrote a post that posed the question of whether the root cause of the rise in yoga injuries might
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posted by Charlotte on January 16, 2012 |
How You Can Help The Road Home Keep Families Warm this Winter As I write this morning, light snow is floating down from the sky. The inch-thick dusting has made the streets and sidewalks quite slick. Earlier this morning I took my car to the shop for some minor maintenance. Since the garage is 1/2 mile from my house I can easily drop my car off, walk home and walk
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posted by Charlotte on January 12, 2012 |
Hugger Mugger Benefits Salt Lake’s Homeless through The Road Home Less than a block from one of Salt Lake’s premiere piano studios and a luxury rug gallery, about two dozen men mill about an empty lot adjoining Catholic Community Services. The weather is kind on this crisp January afternoon—clear, blue sky dotted with a few friendly clouds. In a few hours, women and children will join the men, lining up
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posted by Crystal Griffiths on January 10, 2012 |
Don’t Fear Your Fear—Use Your Fear! The way you see the world changes after you start to become who you truly are. Seeking stops. Needing stops. You start to simply just be. A veil of unconsciousness is lifted and you begin to see clearly why things didn’t work out the way they did in the past. You see that if you have gotten what you thought you wanted it would
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posted by Charlotte on January 9, 2012 |
The New York Times Takes on Yoga Injuries Last week’s New York Times article titled “How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body” made quite a splash in the yoga blogosphere. And the waves are still rippling out. Today, Cyndi Lee of OM Yoga asked her Facebook friends to share their thoughts on the article and has already amassed a huge number of comments. As a practitioner who’s just passed my 30-year
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posted by Crystal Griffiths on January 5, 2012 |
You Are Not Your Circumstances! Do not attach your self-worth to the circumstances of your life. What happens “out there” does not define who you are. When things don’t go your way, when things go “wrong,” and when you do not seem to currently have enough money, do not attach a story or sense of self worth to your circumstances. Who you really are, the power being within you, can
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posted by Anna Guest-Jelley on January 4, 2012 |
Grounding: Strong, Solid and Free My feet don’t often touch the ground. Now, don’t me wrong; no one’s going to mistake me for David Blaine or anything. But that’s just because my illusion is even better than his. My feet are physically on the ground, but they’re definitely not always emotionally on the ground. Public Speaking and Me This has started to change for me a bit in the past
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