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Exploring the Chakras
I have a little confession to make. Hearing the word “chakra” used to produce an eye-roll and an exasperated sigh from me. Now this was back in the day — before I started practicing yoga. In those days, I’d associate chakras with woo woo new age teachings
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June Yoga Happenings
June is fast approaching and it’s shaping up to be a month chock full of yoga. Maybe it’s the warmer weather or the start of summer or the solstice, but June seems to be the chosen month of lots of fun yoga and yoga-related events.
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Decide for Yourself
I’ve been lucky enough to have a wide spectrum of experiences in regards to my training. One of my trainings taught a method and a structure while encouraging students to express the work in their own way while another of my trainings stressed maintaining the integrity of the work and in doing so snuffed out individual interpretation. While one of these trainings sounds positive and the other negative, I look at both as valuable experiences. Your Mileage May Vary I can appreciate both for very different reasons. When I was in the first training I mentioned, I found myself wanting to be taught hard and fast rules. I found it a bit intimidating that the teachers encouraged us to add our own personality and vision to the work. Yes, we were taught certain things but the rest was left up to us. This makes sense, of course. Think about all of the yoga teachers you’ve learned from — are any two the same? Two people could take the exact same yoga training program, yet each would teach a class differently. It reminds me of the Yoga Sutras — one text but many translations. I suppose that’s true of yoga and life.
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Decide for Yourself