Lakshmi
The Power of Transmission
The more popular yoga becomes, the more I appreciate my teachers and the lineage behind me. A lineage teacher asks you to step into the...
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Lakshmi
- Nov 20, 2017
- 4 min
Pratipaksha Bhavanam
vitarka badhane pratipaksha bhavanam when disturbed by negative thoughts, cultivate the opposite patanjali yoga sutra II.33 The...
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Lakshmi
- Oct 26, 2017
- 3 min
Transmission
A student asked recently about the 10-day course I would be attending in San Luis Obispo. What would I be studying? What kind of training...
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Lakshmi
- Sep 15, 2017
- 4 min
The Mundane Voyage
As the light changed from red to green to yellowAnd back to red again, I sat there thinking about life.Was it nothing more than a bunch...
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Lakshmi
- Sep 15, 2017
- 5 min
5 Tips for Maintaining Your Practice
Maintaining a regular yoga practice can be challenging in the best of times, and when the holidays come to call it can feel downright...
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Lakshmi
- Sep 15, 2017
- 5 min
The Dance of Lila
Summer delivered waves of joy as our nuptials approached and our families came together. Two daughters traveled home from overseas, one...
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Lakshmi
- Sep 15, 2017
- 3 min
Yoga Creates Problems
Wanna know a secret? Yoga creates problems. Big problems. Forget the marketing promises of waltzing through life with a carefree mind,...
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Lakshmi
- Sep 15, 2017
- 4 min
Transformative yoga requires discomfort
India’s most ancient teachings, The Vedas, date back to 2000 BC and hold the early seeds of yogic thought. These authoritative teachings...
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Lakshmi
- Sep 15, 2017
- 4 min
"now find your center, notice your thoughts, and let them go . . . "
Ahh the glory of spiritual platitudes . . . It would not be unreasonable to estimate that students absorb about 10% of what a yoga...
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Lakshmi
- Sep 15, 2017
- 4 min
INJURY, PAIN & AVIDYA
"I have seen again and again that if you are a type A personality, you will do your yoga practice with the same aggression and...
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Lakshmi
- Sep 15, 2017
- 5 min
When the student is ready
When the student is ready, the teacher appears . . . Or so the saying goes. But the widespread popularity of yoga means that, these...
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Lakshmi
- Sep 15, 2017
- 4 min
It's not about the poses...or is it
Prior to everything, asana is spoken of as the first part of hatha yoga. Hatha Yoga Pradipika, 1.17 In the evolving vocabulary of yoga,...
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Lakshmi
- Sep 15, 2017
- 4 min
When Kali Comes to Call
Armed with weapons, wild-eyed and ready to kill, carrying a garland of skulls and the severed head of a demon, standing over Shiva with...
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Lakshmi
- Sep 15, 2017
- 4 min
City of Angels, Land of Demons
Giving a presentation on humility and non-attachment in Los Angeles is a little like giving a lecture on diabetes at a See’s candy shop....
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Lakshmi
- Sep 15, 2017
- 5 min
Taking Inventory
Taking inventory of professional offerings is an important aspect of teaching. Not only does the process stimulate reflection, insight...
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Lakshmi
- Sep 14, 2017
- 4 min
Sacred Authentically Empowered Alignment Vinyasa Flow
In an effort to attract more and more potential students from the expanding market segment of mind/body fitness, the modern yoga movement...
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Lakshmi
- Sep 14, 2017
- 1 min
Tantra Illuminated
Consider that most of us dwell in a world of our own thoughts, concepts, and projections; we are not fully connected with reality and...
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