Westshore Yoga

05/17/2024

Now is the perfect time for practice! On a holiday in Seoul!

01/03/2024

Classes start week of January 8th. 2024.
In studio and online still available.
Monday Wednesday Friday 9:30am
Tuesday 3:30pm
Thursday 6pm
Make time for You!

01/03/2024

Welcome 2024!
Another season of practice begins!
Standing firm and
opening our heart to the present!

06/06/2023

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06/06/2023

We experience a beginners mind when we are not in our mind at all.
But rather experiencing a naked moment without filters.
We are in a beginners mind when we experience the moment simply,
before we label it,
critique it,
Judge it,
categorizing or exclude it.
We are experiencing a beginner’s mind when we respond vulnerably and openly to what the present moment offers.

11/27/2022

Practicing on our own and
practicing together
both have their value,
something significant to offer.
May we all
make space in our life
to practice
Today!

08/24/2022

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08/24/2022

Updated website now up and fall classes starting September 12!
Looking forward to sharing yoga with you!

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05/27/2022

“Whenever we find stiffness in the body, our mind should be especially supple. It is never the stiffness in our bodies that limits our practice, it is always the stiffness of our mind. Knowledge has a beginning but no end. We are missing the gold if we do asanas as a physical practice only.”
-Geeta Iyengar

Words of wisdom from Geeta Iyengar

05/27/2022

Pausing for a stretch during my walk.

05/04/2022

From my experience the quote below resonates, the effort turning into joy!

"If you observe the effort involved in doing the pose as a beginner and then continue to observe the effort as you make progress, the effort becomes less and less, but the level of performance of the asana improves. The degree of physical effort decreases and the achievement increases.... When wise action comes, you no longer feel the effort as effort — you feel the effort as joy."
BKS Iyengar (The Tree of Yoga p.39-40)

04/28/2022

First Yoga Lesson by Mary Oliver

There are more and more days like this!

"Be a lotus in the pond," she said, "opening
slowly, no single energy tugging
against another but peacefully,
all together."

I couldn't even touch my toes.
"Feel your quadriceps stretching?" she asked.
Well, something was certainly stretching.

Standing impressively upright, she
raised one leg and placed it against
the other, then lifted her arms and
shook her hands like leaves. "Be a tree," she said.

I lay on the floor, exhausted.
But to be a lotus in the pond
opening slowly, and very slowly rising --
that I could do.

First Yoga Lesson - Mary Oliver (from Blue Horses)
Artist: Birgit Coath, oil on canvas