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August 12, 2018
Yatra is a beautiful sanskrit word describing yoga as a journey, a process.
This is a journey I have been on since 1989. It has not been a linear process; more like upward trending spirals or long switchbacks, moving me along yet returning me to beginnings at the same...
April 4, 2018
Why EmbodiYoga? Mapping an Ongoing Studies Path
At first, yoga called to my physicality, my most accessible sensorium. With time, the postures were collaborations, meditations, and deep relationship with gravity and levity. Yoga became a practice with a prism-effect, ea...
February 3, 2018
"The process of embodiment is a being process, not a doing process, not a thinking process." Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
Click below for a copy of the article The Process of Embodiment by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, from her book Sensing, Feeling, Action. How we integrate, ho...
January 2, 2018
Development is a pattern of relationships which create a form. Humans develop themselves in a series of patterns and relationships. The word "yoga" describes a pattern of bonding relationships, or union.
Movement is an expression of relationships, thei...
November 11, 2017
Yoga Asana practice could be perceived as a sequence of spirals, of pulsating movements beginning at the center of the body, moving outward through the limbs, then flowing back to center along the limb pathways, riding on the breath .
Consider Trik...
March 28, 2017
"We have an enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language."
Jean Berko Gleason
Yoga is a meta-language. It communicates deeply to our many layers, guiding us to experience ourselves and others in dimension. We understand more about how we ab...
December 10, 2016
Steadiness and Ease: Embodiment and Yoga
I am often asked how EmbodiYoga® is different from other approaches to yoga.
This blog series seeks to begin a conversation to not only answer this question, but to also change the nature of it from want is the difference to what...
October 17, 2016
Cellular Shakti
Explore the organ cells of the body. The pattern of their gathering reflects the shape and function of the organ community they create; kidney, liver, pancreas, brain, small intestine, and so on.
Sit with each of these cellular expressions of Shakti...
October 13, 2016
Cellular Prakriti: Our Cellular Body
Prakrit (Prock-rit-tee) is a beautiful sanskrit word meaning "nature", the primal matter of creation. All the universe is made of prakriti, in relationship with Purusha, pure consciousness. Prakriti is often referred to as Shakti, a...
September 25, 2016
Leaves could be considered a skin surface of the trees, with "breath" pores supporting respiration exchange from inner to outer, and a sensitivity to light and temperature, signaling phases of change in the cycles of Tree Being, Our skin illuminates this natural patt...