This is a great hip-warming sequence for heading into a more vigorous practice, or to take a break from sitting during the day.

Communicating your unmet expectations as a deep source of your grief is a good way to ask people for more time to foster contentment and equanimity.

This Yin Yoga sequence focuses on the spleen/stomach meridian pair, and combines suggested sequencing from Sarah Powers’ Insight Yoga, Bernie Clark’s books and websites, and the sequencing recommendations of Paul and Suzee Grilley.

The Yamas: Five guiding principles for how we are to be in relationship to others—ahimsa; satya; asteya; brahmacarya; and aparigraha.

Tonight marks the second evening in about a month, where I’ve received news of a beloved local yoga studio closing its doors as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic and the associated economic downturn.

Metta Meditation is a loving-kindness meditation.

This technique, common in mindfulness meditation traditions and discussed at length by meditation teachers such as Pema Chodron and Sarah Powers, can be useful as a way of cultivating equanimity toward ourselves: our own emotions, fears, story-telling, attachments.

Monica DiCristina and I talk about yoga’s promise: a resting in our true self, and the tools that yoga gives us (breathwork, meditation, yoga postures) to try to get to that true abiding a little more frequently.

A meditation on wrapping the body: connecting to your breath energy

Self-study to come away from black and white thinking; focusing the lens on what unites us…..aparigraha [Sanskrit]: non-possessiveness, or explained as non-hoarding, or living without that which is essential