Contemplations
Why Yoga, Really?
So often we go through our daily routines on autopilot. Status quo. Just another day. We’ve been trained, collectively, not to ask why and just to follow the leader. In school, religion, work. Of parents, Read more…
What Is Yoga
The Yoga Self vs. self
Random capitalization used to bother me (and might still). So, when I write Self with a capital “S” in yoga posts on this site or social media, I think of the fellow writers and word-lovers Read more…
Contemplations
The Antidote to Anxiety
Anxiety. It’s created by trying to live forward into the future and resolve the not-yet known, the not-yet experienced. And why? To make it less scary? To make life a safe, super-safe adventure? If I Read more…
Contemplations
Monkey Mind Is The Devil
If there’s such a character as the devil I think I’ve found it in the formless beast that is my thinking mind. That bleepin’ bleep has kept me up well past my bedtime, stressed my Read more…
Conversations on Yoga
Ros Prado | Yoga Teaching, Philosophy + Instagram
Manitou Springs collects us. From this corner and that, from shore to shore and well beyond. An unseen magnet. Ros Prado, a yoga teacher, has her own story. An original, yet one that echoes. Another Read more…
Contemplations
Ego, Entitlement + Yogic Inquiry
A tall teenage boy looked at me from the street corner as I neared the intersection in my old VW bus. He had no crosswalk. I had no stop sign. He looked hard at me Read more…