A rainy day here in Boulder, Colorado – which is a nice change, actually, for a city whose strongly consistent weather habit is: clear and sunny, as far as the eye can see. Though I love the blue skies, rainy days like this serve as a sweet counterpoint – an overcast, occult, yin energy, mostly quiet save of course for the sound of the raindrops and occasional thunder. And today the rain is …
Yoga
Practice Notes: Shavasana
Image: Theologue by Alex Grey Divine Laziness A friend once reported to me that whenever he practices yoga asana, he tries to arrange it so that he can spend at least 30 minutes in shavasana. What good advice! I thought, at that time. And it has stuck with me … Because as fun and potentially beneficial as it is exploring various asanas, the deepest sweetness comes in the release into …
Practice Notes: Quietude & Dynamism
An interesting journey, these past six weeks or so, into a new approach to my yoga asana practice. The form I’ve been exploring was developed by Brazilian teacher Francisco Kaiut, is deeply therapeutic and focused on the health of the body’s joints. I decided to practice almost exclusively in this form, for a month or two, because I was feeling that I had reached an impasse with the more …