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Why Self Practice?
by Lisa Mendelsund

It's a summer afternoon in Vermont. Mighty, my dog is sleeping after a long walk. Padma is playing with her friends across the road. I am done teaching for the day. In short, it's time to square off with a question which has been dancing at the periphery of the day: Where do I practice?
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Yoga Workshop :: Philosophy

What is Yoga? Yoga is freedom. It is love. It is pure, radiant, unobstructed joy. It is pure awareness, wide-awake and clear.
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Yoga Workshop :: Studio Talks

A talk by Richard at the Yoga Workshop in the Spring of 2005 [ read more ]


The Practice of Tonglen

Each of us has a "soft spot": the place in our experience where we feel vulnerable and tender. This soft spot is inherent in appreciation and love, and it is equally inherent in pain.
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Cultivating Prana
Robert E. Svoboda

Whoever you may be, and wherever you may live, you live yourlife well when you live it at the right rate. Plow your way through life and life will wear you out; poke your way along and your life will grind to a halt. Find a pace that suits you, though, and amble along it accordingly, and your world will spontaneously level a path for you. [ read more ]


Nadis: Rivers of Life Energy
An article by James Bailey, LAc, MATCM, MPH, Dipl Ayu

When we breath or chant or meditate, we are more than just calming our nervous system, we are nourishing and soothing the pranic field. Distinctions between the physical and the subtle begin to fade, and we begin to hear the gentle streams of life energy that feed us, that connects us to the source, that makes the awakening possible.
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Karma: What You Think, Say and Do

Excerpt from Chapter Three: Jivamukti Yoga
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Nadi Shodhana

Nadi shodhana pranayama is a hatha yoga practice that purifies the nadis (energy channels in the subtle body) through alternate-nostril breathing.
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