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Perfectly Imbalanced
By Naoko Morita May 16, 2012 One of the challenges of yoga is to find balance in difficult poses. When I hit what seems to be the perfect balance, I yearn to stay there, but soon my body sways and I lose my balance. Or, sometimes I struggle to stay balanced the whole time I [...]
Read moreAn Invitation to Play……..
By Michael Fergot May 2, 2012 Life has a way of playing little tricks on you. Like Iʼm getting on the F train to get to York Street so I can go to Abhaya to practice Yoga. And then, BAM it hits me, right there on the F train that I can be practicing even as the [...]
Read moreThe Skinny on our Ayurvedic Cleanse
Abhaya teachers completed the Ayurvedic cleanse early to be able to share their experiences with students who will be participating next week. Here’s what they have to say. Denise Lee: I completed the cleanse and although it was a bit challenging in the beginning it proved to be a very satisfying experience. It was fun [...]
Read moreFinding Your Life’s Purpose
By Sara Neufeld March 21, 2012 I am endlessly fascinated by how applicable ancient yogic teachings are to our lives today, thousands of years later and thousands of miles away. The Rig Veda, circa 1,200-900 B.C., outlined the four aims – or four desires – of life: artha, our basic needs (food, clothing, shelter); kama, pleasure; dharma, [...]
Read moreOur Soul is Love
By Adriana Rizzolo March 7, 2012 Dear Abhaya kula, Thank you all for creating & sustaining the safe space for me to continue to turn to for support, learning & growing. Yoga has helped me see the beginning of what Love is. My life has changed & I can feel my wildest dreams starting to come true [...]
Read moreAfter Disappointment: Inspiration
By Jorja Rivero February 23, 2012 Reality and being alive means we are not solid, fixed, firm, grounded, but fluid, flexible, movable, vulnerable, beautiful shifting expressions of life. We unfold – and – simultaneous to our unfolding, our environment and the people that surround us unfold at their own rhythm and time. No matter how daunting – [...]
Read moreSpecial Occasions
By Allison Terracio February 8, 2012 Post (from my friend Harrison): I just finished one of those gargantuan yet utterly banal tasks that had it not been done would have wreaked havoc and having now been completed is more or less unnoticeable by anyone other than myself. Response (from one of Harrison’s friends I don’t yet know): [...]
Read moreThe Secret Ingredients for Yoga Practice
By Naoko Morita January 25, 2012 Winter’s cold has come to New York — and for me that means it is time to make hearty soups. Every winter I make a variety of soups with seasonal vegetables. My soup is like a nutritional powerhouse, and it makes me feel warm, healthy and happy. I don’t follow [...]
Read moreTara’s Interview with Ross Rayburn
By Tara Glazier January 12, 2012 I had the recent pleasure of a phone interview with Ross Rayburn to talk about life, travel, teaching and his upcoming Teacher Training Intensive at Abhaya. I have always found Ross to be a very inspiring and very clear teacher – someone just as real off the mat as on. TARA: Hi Ross, I’m [...]
Read moreThe Twisting Turning Road
By Jenny Ingwersen April 4, 2012 I began my love affair with yoga with a naïve vision that this path of practice would be crystal clear and a straight line. Something that would FINALLY pull the unwieldy, unheeding, messy, awkward, flailing arms of my life to point in a single direction. Thinking that my life would [...]
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