Category Archives: asana
I Am Not This Body
It’s a tricky business combining meditation and asana practices in a life. There’s the obvious problem of time when you decide to do sitting meditation twice a day and you happen to be so head-over-heels with kundalini yoga that you’re… Continue reading
Best Friend Poses
Some asanas are like friends, and I have two kinds. The first is the easy kind, the kind I love to be with no matter how low I am or high I am; no matter how angry, sad, or… Continue reading
Beginner’s Meditation 1
Meditation, like asana and pranayama, is a branch of yoga. Writing about meditation makes me nervous. I have an irrational and enormous love of what amounts to sitting still, doing not very much, and feel it is impossible to do… Continue reading
Expanding the Definition of Yoga
Like most North Americans, I first met yoga as a physical practice, a sport. Unlike most sports in my life, yoga combines strength and flexibility, which is like some kind of magic trick after years of activities (trail running, cycling,… Continue reading
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