Yoga to You

07/24/2025

Chanting of Yoga Sutras by Srivatsa Ramaswami (Studio Recording)-Complete Book of Vinyasa Yoga

07/14/2025

07/14/2025

Think of learning to ride a bike or drive a car. The very first thing you should learn before you do anything else at all is to know how to stop.

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12/23/2024

Did 988 replace the su***de hotline?

988 is now the three-digit dialing code that routes callers to the 988 Su***de & Crisis Lifeline (or 988 Lifeline). On July 16, 2022, the 988 Lifeline transitioned away from the National Su***de Prevention Line reached through a 10-digit number to the three-digit 988 Lifeline.

11/30/2024

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11/07/2024

Anyone who belittles your emotions instead of helping you through them is not a friend.

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10/18/2024

NEWS FLASH FOR AMERICAN CHRISTIANS: Secular does not mean "anit-christian" - it simply means not being bound by religious rule. It is a founding principle of our nation. If you think your god, or any god, should be integral to governance then you are un-American.
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10/15/2024

PSA: Hey kids - check your voter registration NOW to be sure you weren't PURGED. The voter Reg. offices are going to overwhelmed soon with confirmation requests - be in the crest of this wave, not stuck BEHIND it!
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09/08/2024

Normalize telling people that they used too much garlic.

09/06/2024

"Prana Flow" was / is the trademarked style of teaching yoga deveoped by Shiva Rea. I was drawn to it for it's base in dance. Vinyasa krama is the idea of moviement within movement, staged steps in progression taylored for the individual (refer to Srivatsa Ramaswami). When I practice my morning yoga I *usually* practice to music. I love to move within the moving air. Dacning inside the dance. It's why I love going to live shows, even!

If you're following along at home, this morning's yoga practice playlist has been:

Rock and Roll Band (Boston)
Where have all the good time gone (Van Halen)
Muffin Man (Frank Zappa/ Cpt'n Beefheart)
Tous les Salopes (Les Sales Majestes)
The needled and Spoon (Lynard Skynard)
Santeria (Sublime)
Green River (CCR)
My Best Friend's Girlfriend (The Cars)
Closer to the Heart (Rush)

[7 minutes of silence]

Om shanih, m***a f**kas!

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09/04/2024

When you read this, the letter "c" is pronounced as in English a hard "ch", like in "chips" or "chocolate".

Citta is a conceptual state of your consciousness.
You have a mind, in which resides your consciousness.
It's state (citta) is influenced by your reactions to the world around you. This is citta, the "conditioned mind" - conditioned through direct experience - is a fact of life, not an option.
Vritti are the waves or disturbances or flucuations of this state.
Nirodhah is the verb of smoothing or calming, think of ironing a cloth - which is a result of LESS doing, NOT MORE.
Doing LESS clams the vritti of the citta.

"Yogash citta vritti nirodah::"

Yoga is the practice of allowing the conscious mind to calm itself.

What I am saying is that all the acrobatics and calestehnics you think you see in a "yoga practice" are designed as a physical-to-mental bridge to help you explore yourself, your own mental helath.
You get fit and sexy by accidental consequnce.

I am directly paraphrasing Patanjali in every word I have wrtitten here.
None of what I just wrote is of my own invention.

Om shantih.

09/04/2024

Go.
Go to a yoga "class".
Learn something to take home and practice on your own.
Repeat.

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