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7 Things Most People Don’t Know About Western Yogis
Stereotypes are everywhere. The western yoga community, like any community, fields its fair share of misrepresentations. I’m not going to say that yogis aren’t likely to have healthy diets, or...
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6 Tips for Adjusting the Ancient Practice of Yoga to your Modern Body
Most people who practice yoga in the west do not look like Krishnamacharya. Meaning, most westerners are not very skinny, thin framed, short Indian men with a stern temperament. We western yogis vary –...
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Yoga Practice for the Modern Mind
Last month I wrote about how our modern bodies are different from the bodies yoga was first developed on. This month I want to focus on how our minds also have shifted. As both a student and teacher of...
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Modern Spirituality: Tips for Empowerment and Meaningfulness
For many years, the word “spirituality” was off-putting to me. My encounters with “spiritual” people tended to be one of two kinds: strong religious types who told me my soul would burn if I didn’t...
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The Importance of Destruction
In my undergraduate years at the University of California, San Diego, I was often taught the importance of deconstructing the cultural, mythological, and social institutions that often unjustly wield...
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Right Livelihood: How the Practice of Yoga Leads to Socially Responsible...
Yoga practice is not just for health nuts, spiritual seekers, and fitness enthusiasts. The practice of yoga is first a foremost a lifestyle and philosophy of how to most honor yourself and live a...
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A Yogic Perspective on Death
Death is an inevitable part of life. We see it all around us constantly, and yet many of us go through life ignoring it, or worse, fearing it. Death is unavoidable, but the way that the western world...
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The Best Yoga Teachers are the Most Committed Students: 6 Unique Reasons Why...
Though it may be a 2,000-year old practice, yoga is constantly evolving. In the modern day, and especially in the west, more people are practicing some (if not various) forms of yoga in record numbers....
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What Does it Mean to be Strong?
Note: This is relatively lengthy blog post that will require you to likely read for more than 3-5 minutes. It’s not exactly designed for Facebook scrolling. Also, it puts forth some pretty...
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5 Non-Yoga “Yoga” Books
If you go to enough yoga classes, you will eventually hear your teacher say something along the lines of, “the true yoga practice does not happen in the yoga studio, it happens off the mat in life in...
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