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A Taste of Autumn Alignment (opens the original)
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Next Saturday, October 3, I’ll be at Repose Yoga in Newburyport, Massachusetts teaching Autumn Alignment: Bones, Breath & Awareness, the next stop on my fall teaching tour.After several years of doing so much of my teaching online, I’ve been particularly enjoying the
Put Down the Mountain (opens the original)
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A quick note before this month’s free Yin Yoga practice: I'm heading back on the road this fall with Autumn Alignment: Bones, Breath & Awareness, a new in-person workshop exploring functional anatomy, Yin Yoga, Dao Yin, breath, and the Metal Element. I'll be teaching in Colchester, CT (Sept. 19), Newburyport, MA (Oct. 3), Bridgewater, MA (Oct. 17), and Merrimack, NH (Nov. 7). After several years of doing most of my teaching online, I'm especially excit
Croissants and the Future of Yin Yoga (opens the original)
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Some conversations feel less like interviews and more like sitting across the table from an old friend over coffee.Recently I had the pleasure of joining my friend Wolfgang Riedl — a Yin Yoga teacher and acupuncturist based in Berlin, Germany — for a conversation that wandered through the history of Yin Yoga, Chinese medicine, meditation, Dao Yin, and the questions that have been reshaping my own teaching over the past several years. Wolfgang and I first met many years ago during a teacher train
The Knowing Heart (opens the original)
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This week’s longer Yin Yoga practice began with the Fire Element. With the solar eclipse overhead and summer beginning its slow turn toward autumn, I wanted to spend some time with the Heart—not simply as an organ or even as a channel system, but as the home of Shen, what Chinese medicine traditionally calls the Spirit. Shen is associated with conscious… Read more
Keep Good Company (opens the original)
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Over the years I’ve become increasingly suspicious of the idea that growth happens primarily through accumulation. More books. More certifications. More techniques. More information.Those things certainly have their place, but when I look back over the past thirty years of practice, the moments that most profoundly shaped me were rarely the result of learning more. They came from finding myself in the company of remarkable teachers and peers whose presence quietly changed the way I saw, practice
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