Bi-Monthly Focus: July/August – Why Yoga?

In the Spring of 1993 I attended my first yoga class. I was living in New Orleans and hitting an emotional bottom.  Nothing in life made sense anymore.  Someone suggested yoga. I arrived at a candlelit basement and felt a little scared.  It was dark and I didn’t know anyone.  But I surrendered to the…

Life on Life’s Terms

I am stretching here. And I don’t mean stretching my body.  I am stretching to find a yogic approach to what I want to share this evening, after months without blogging or sending Yoga Updates to my mailing list or reaching out much at all, really. Somewhere around March I started falling behind on my…

Chakra Chant

As part of our Bi-Monthly Focus of TRANSITION & BALANCE, we’ve been closing classes with a chakra balancing meditation I learned from Corrine Champigny who teaches the blissful Svaroopa Yoga sessions at Nashville’s Yoga Source studio.  http://www.yogasource.info/index.php We have seven energy centers, aka chakras, along our spine, from the tail bone to the crown of the head. …

Turn, Turn, Turn

To everything (turn, turn, turn) there is a season (turn, turn, turn). – Ecclesiastes (& Pete Seeger) Seasonal changes are intense and the coming of Spring can seem like a major upheaval.  Spring forces our slumbering seeds to sprout and can leave us feeling off-balance – particularly after an unusually snow-blanketed Winter. For some, the…

I Know in My Heart…

Let’s wrap up our January/February class focus of HEART.  We’ve physically exercised the heart-areas of the body and conceptually explored the heart chakra. Through anatomical focus on the neck, collar-bone, ribs and shoulder blades, we’ve felt the physical relationships among body parts.  Through concepts such as “the heart’s desire,” “following the heart,” and “love,” we’ve…

Consider Love

Love is not a feeling; it’s an ability. – Marty to Dan in “Dan in Real Life” Am I able to love? More importantly – am I able to post a blog about love in a timely fashion?  Hehe.  I intended to write about love on Valentine’s Day, before teaching my evening yoga class last…

Where Was I In January?

Aside from visiting my dad in Nashvegas for his 82nd birthday and diving into a search for full-time Communications work, I spent the month teaching and training. TEACHING To complement their intense season-end meets, I lead yoga classes for the Catholic University swim team (Go Cardinals!).  Cultivating “The Zone” by following yogic principles, we concentrated…