by Mary Hilliker, RDN, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT We are all living with the reality of our many attachments. The current Covid pandemic is like a big mirror, reflecting our attachments and aversions. While this pandemic, in its size and scope, is new for all of us,...
We are light. Within us is a light, very much like the Sun, that is unchanging and brilliant. This is one of the fundamental teachings in yoga philosophy. The darkness of the winter creates an inward movement of our attention that creates opportunities to experience...
We all exist within our own unique expression of physical structure, physiology, mind, personality and heart. These layers of our being, also known as the koshas or sheaths or layers of being, provide a passageway into our deep center, the cave of our heart. This innermost...
Yoga for Conscious Eating, Active Living and Habit Change Can the tools of yoga help us change our habits? Yoga is a powerful practice for transformation and change. The tools of yoga can be applied in specific ways to help us strengthen will and change habits...
Con·tent·ment noun\kən-ˈtent-mənt\ the state of being happy and satisfied : the state of being content We all want happiness and contentment. My teacher, Gary Kraftsow, says that santosha, the Sanskrit word for contentment, is “the way you take experience.” It’s an internal state of mind and attitude that...
My husband recently turned his own harvest of apples into crowd-pleasing apple bread (see recipe below) for one of my yoga retreats. It struck me how long the journey is for that wonderful apple bread. We can learn something for our journey in yoga from...
The other day I read something very "new-agey" about yoga. The author said that yoga is being, not doing. I immediately visualized the packing of my bags to trek to the Himalayas to meditate, to just be. It made me chuckle. Reality set it. It's rare...
Change in our life comes in many different ways. Sometimes we plan for the change. A retirement, career change or getting married are examples of things that we often consciously choose. And then some changes blow in like a strong wind taking with it any...