“Looking for the good” is a key teaching of Anusara Yoga. For the past few years, I have taught “looking for the good” to represent a look at the whole, thus providing a perspective for us to see where energy is flowing. There is a wonderful Sanskrit word that evokes goddess, life, abundance, and good [...]
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Dear Friends, Colleagues and Students, Well. 2012 sure has delivered on its promise of enormous change! In the last month, an overwhelming cascade of events has impacted the Anusara yoga community. All of us are still processing these events in our own ways, and it’s probably not a stretch to say that we are surprised [...]
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Dear Anusara Yoga Kula, As many of you now know, I am no longer a licensed Anusara teacher. You may not be aware that I am still deeply invested in our community. I have spent many sleepless nights over the past several weeks working, as have many others. Several of these nights were spent in [...]
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Dear Friends, After a grueling week of efforts to hold our Anusara school together, I have come to a decision. I can no longer support a teacher whose actions have caused irreparable damage to our beloved community. It is out of the love I have for our community that I have worked tirelessly to keep [...]
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Divine Love and Yoga Practices “The world needs you. The world needs your love.” -Bill Mahony I was fortunate to teach alongside Bill Mahony this afternoon in my hometown, Charlotte, NC. Following is a synopsis of our afternoon together for those of you who were with us in person, for those of you who have [...]
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Truth In my advanced practice that I lead twice weekly, we have taken on the study of the Yogasutra of Patanjali. Each class, we discuss a sutra, pondering it, turning it over, contemplating it, dismantling it, and putting it back together in different ways. We look at it also through a Tantric lens. As the [...]
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Blog on Dharma of Relationships October 19, 2011. I just returned from a three day teachers intensive with my teacher John Friend, founder of Anusara Yoga. He offered a wealth of knowledge and practical teachings on how to live the Anusara Yoga path more fully in all of our relationships. I reflect here on just [...]
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Who really knows what the best choices are? We may only make the best ones we can for any given moment.
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Sutra 1.6-1.11There are basically five movements of consciousness. They are: correct knowing errors concepts sleep memory Sutra 1.7 Correct knowledge is direct, inferred, or proven as factual.Sutra 1.8 Illusory or erroneous knowledge is based on non-fact and non-real.Sutra 1.9 Verbal knowledge devoid of substance is fancy or imagination.Sutra 1.10 Sleep is the non-deliberate absence of [...]
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The movements of thought and consciousness are fivefold which are afflicting or not.In the next few sutras, we find out what the five are, but even reading this for now, after sutra 1.4 knowing that we identify with our whirling thoughts, we say that this will either be disturbing or not. And the distress could [...]
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