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Monday 7:30am - 9:30am 5pm - 7pm Tuesday 7:30am - 9:30am 5pm - 7pm Wednesday 7:30am - 9:30am 5pm - 7pm Thursday 7:30am - 9:30am 5pm - 7pm Friday 7am - 10am Saturday 8:30pm - 10:30am Sunday 8:30am - 10:30am

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Near East Yoga is dedicated to supporting Mysore Style Ashtanga Yoga practice and inquiry into the t

08/15/2025

04/01/2025

Once again this Thursday at 630pm. The lady two sessions went deep into building our sound foundations. The sincere exploration of the classic Vedic songs opens the wind energy and we can sing freely in the spirit of the devotional bhajam jam. Later, we render Bowie, Leonard Cohen and Dylan choral covers. I always have a great time. Off next week.

03/27/2025

For the spring I’m hosting a weekly kirtan- 1/2 classical study and half jam session- we learn a lot and hold space for divine sounds. They have never been a bad time. Do Come join me Thursdays at 630pm.

03/14/2025

I’ve missed the Near East Yoga kirtan. Time to bring it back- Thursdays at 630. Join me for Equinox next week on the 20th for the first jam in a while. I’ve got new materiel plus the classics.

03/13/2025

From the beginning I meet so many of the best yogis at night. Not everyone functions at the crack of dawn, people have jobs and lives- the night yoga is what brought so many in- it’s a different practice. Come see Sam and Bob to explore yoga in the waning light of spring evenings at Near East Yoga. Saturday’s Too!!

03/08/2025

There is often an abundance of undiscovered layers remaining to be revealed to the individual dedicated to a life of yoga practice. None more elusive than pranayama which is mainly due to not having either the dedication or the support to remain consistent. This is where tapas and sangha and sadhana or effort, cohort and practice can take us past a threshold we have not yet explored. Pranayama is not “breath work” and this recognition is rooted in the classical supports related in the Raja Yoga of Patanjali and Hatha Pradipika of Svatvarama. Pranayama is not the end goal either- it’s the vehicle for authentic and lasting pratyahara called dharana. What comes after, with and throughout, becoming effortless dhyana and samadhi likely don’t happen without this potent piece of work. If you are sincerely interested in learning and experiencing more for yourself send me a DM and we can have a conversation about what the process looks like and how you can get established and remain stable in this experience.

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707 NE Broadway #206
Portland, OR
97232

Opening Hours

Monday	7:30am - 9:30am
	5pm - 7pm
Tuesday	7:30am - 9:30am
	5pm - 7pm
Wednesday	7:30am - 9:30am
	5pm - 7pm
Thursday	7:30am - 9:30am
	5pm - 7pm
Friday	7am - 10am
Saturday	8:30pm - 10:30am
Sunday	8:30am - 10:30am

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http://www.neareastyoga.com/

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This destination we seek, it is a part of where, what and who we are right now. Not just a part really, its actually all of who we are, it maybe small and obscured but its there. We have a tendency to cultivate a state of dualistic separation that we routinely suffer over. Yoga practice in the modern age of quick information, instantaneous global travel and wish-fulfilling consumerism has us running faster and faster toward getting what we want but limiting us on getting what we need. Taking ourselves out of the mix for just 1.5 hours a day and bringing our form into pattern outside the luxuries we have bestowed on ourselves is modern yoga. If we could just get centered we would then feel centered. But it may still be an illusion and theres something less we can do to fulfill the ancient possibility of authentic yoga.

The only problem is our current state of yoga has us reaching for the next pose, the next taste of “yoga-and” (inserted here) or the next fabulous venue, all to satisfy and propagate the acquisitive pattern lurking under the surface of our finely wrapped and exquisitely adorned form. And the industry, yes yoga is an industry is completely driven by this need to explore the next thing, the add-on and the upgrade to make up for this gap in our felt sense of accomplishment. There is a chance that we are energetically weaving a thread of suffering into our practice that drives us farther away from the moment but working at yoga to hard an with to little understanding of what yoga originally was intended to be.

There is an antidote to this suffering. We have heard it before, probably from the very beginning, something like, Be Here Be Now etc. But what does that mean and how do we actually allow this to happen? Patanjali invites us to “sit in our own form” as starting place and allow the body to reintegrate into the matter from which it is a part. In all our intellectual glory of the amazing human brain we cannot do more than influence this form which actually belongs to nature. Where spirit is concerned, this nature can only be influenced. So he calls us to “sit” and allow this to happen, without adding what we think should happen. This starts with sweeping movements of the body form in is dominant moving patterns though asana and vinyasa, then sitting with pranayama and pratyahara then more, but really its less. There is some external guidance involved but ultimately we must sit in our own form and find out for ourselves the merit of this destination.

There’s a Ganesh lurking to support us in every moment, in essence a symbol of the very real possibility of something or nothing coming into being. Its not always up to us to do more work, or be bendy or smart. Sometimes is just sit there and let the energy flow, to abide in this, to not add or take away. Yes, its possible and probable, if we take the first step and sit down to rest in it.