As is the cosmic body, so is the human bodyAs is the cosmic mind, so is the human mindAs is the macrocosm, so is the microcosm ~The Upanishads Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. ~ Erwin Schrödinger Last week we concluded our exploration of...
This post is the second installment in the Ecology of Pain conversation. Imagine two maps laid out in front of you. The first map is a record of your lifestyle choices: simple things such as the time you wake up, how brightly your house is lit in the evenings, your...
Welcome to the second installment of the “Choosing Differently” series. Last week we started a conversation about our choices – the easy ones, the familiar ones, the unconscious ones, and the difficult ones. You’ve met Anna, our “choosing differently” hero of the...
One of the most influential yoga teachers, Judith Hanson Lasater, once said: “Yoga is the practice of making difficult choices.” The difficulty, I believe, lies in the mentality of familiarity. Over a lifetime, our perspective narrows until the usual way, the familiar...
What if you could quiet the mind and prepare your body for restful sleep, all the while alleviating symptoms of hormonal imbalances (andropause, menopause, peri-menopause, PMS and general teenage moody crankiness), reducing water retention in the feet, preventing...
A new student has joined one of last week’s yoga classes. While she is new to Satori, she is a very experienced practitioner with over 12 years of yoga practice under her belt. When I asked the class to come into the child’s pose, she let me know that her neck doesn’t...
If you’ve been religiously stretching your hip-flexor muscles for a while with no consistent results, now might be as good time as ever to take a different (and wider) perspective. Traditionally, most individual muscle stretching protocols follow a somewhat mechanical...
Exploratory movement in yesterday’s Hatha class revealed something very interesting. Oftentimes we lack awareness and/or strength in deep, intrinsic muscles of the inner core. Instead, when our stability is challenged, we engage the familiar, big postural muscles...