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Kirtan Flow at Bhakti Yoga Shala Traveling Yogi is a new periodic feature on our blog. Author Jodi Mardesich loves visiting new studios as she traverses...

Redefining Balance I don’t have the best balance, particularly some days on my right side or left, and always without warning. While leading a class in...

Jump Start Your Meditation Practice with a New Book and Discount on a Cushion or Bench! Sitting meditation may look easy, but in reality sitting still...

Overcoming Addiction:  Replace Unhealthy Habits with Healthy Ones Most human problems are created by our inability to properly feel and express our feelings. Example:  addiction. An...

to Gopi and the women in her teacher training We stop and start, yogena, trying too hard to not try too hard, voices smooth water moving...

Learn to Sit Most of us spend the majority of our waking hours sitting—at our computers, in our cars, at our dining tables, in front of...

Redefine Beauty in the Moment As I pulled my chest forward in upward facing dog, and right before I arched my back, I caught the view...

Lack is an Illusion Here’s a major block to getting what you want: scarcity or lack of consciousness. What’s that mean? It means believing that there...

Wild Geese The title of this post may be familiar to many of you as a line from Mary Oliver’s poem, “Wild Geese,” in which she...

Forgiveness:  Free Yourself Part of being free means learning how to forgive. Forgive yourself first and then extend that forgiveness to those who have harmed you....

Everyday Karma in My Garden A few years ago, I dug up the sod in my front yard and parking strip to replace it with drought...

 Half-Moon Alone in the bedroom or at the back of the large yoga class, against the wall or balanced alone in the shaking steadiness of this...

On Retreat:  Heading to the Woods Once every year, I go to the woods, to a small Catholic retreat center in northeast Kansas, which may not...

Slow Yoga Practice I’ve been getting into a slower yoga practice lately. I’m talking tortoise of the tortoise-and-the-hare fame. Since I’m not actually in a race,...

A few years ago I was invited to guest teach Yoga Nidra to a group of teacher trainees at a local studio. As is my habit,...

The Reality of Impermanence The reality of impermanence was one of the first insights I had when I began meditation practice. As my mind began to...

Impermanence and Appreciation I wish tulips bloomed all summer. Two weeks of glory is far too little. During their spring performance I find myself making excuses...

Don’t Give Up:  When Things Don’t Go Our Way, It Might be a Gift A lot of people tend to think, when they are pursuing their...