Wolff for Tyler and me

I listen to the same CD every morning as I practice. Shakti~Bhakti by Martin Wolff. Tyler lies down in his playpen when I roll out my mat and turn on the music. I have no idea how I stumbled upon this CD, to tell you the truth. But I love it. And Tyler seems to, [...]

Adjustments

My most recent spell spent at a shala has left me feeling overadjusted. So I have to mention this quote from Matthew Sweeney’s new book: This posture is often over adjusted, analysed and manipulated by teachers and students. It may be best to leave it alone. It will gradually develop just fine without your interference. [...]

The Moral Matrix

The best thing you’ll see about politics this year. But you already knew that, because you’re on my team. P.S. The website Jonathan Haidt references (yourmorals.org) is quite fascinating.

More Tyler

Tyler likes dogs, but what he really loves is people. He was so happy to go back to the vet. Greetings and wiggles for all! The lady with the cat in the waiting room, the lady with the dog who did NOT want to meet Tyler, the receptionist, the assistant to the vet, the vet [...]

And now, Susananda!

How’s that for an introduction? Susananda left a comment saying she hasn’t been able to comment on one of my other posts. Where I asked her about shadow yoga. Susananda, shall we talk about shadow yoga in the comments of this post? I first got curious about shadow yoga when I practiced with Celeste Lau [...]

Where will we be without conceptual associations triggered by semantic stimuli?

Marco… … … Polo… …reality is originally devoid of ontological properties and it is only via an incessant and largely unconscious habit of emotional self-reference and categorization that a conceptual structure is created and ultimately reified; a process necessary for daily life, but that also tends to condition the individual into predefined patterns of thoughts, [...]

Dog school, Soap opera name, Learnings from crim week

Today was the second session of puppy school. I was a little suspicious on week 1, when our class included a 6 year old dog who is animal aggressive. Basically, she is perfectly fine around humans, but wants to attack other dogs. At first I was simply horrified, but then my mothering instincts kicked in [...]

Simha Krama

Patrick has talked about Matthew Sweeney’s Simha Krama sequence from his new book, Vinyasa Krama. I finally got a chance to try the sequence out this morning. May I say it totally rocks? *** Let’s start from yesterday, when I went to an all-levels Anusara class with a friend from work. We did a lot [...]

Cows, Itchiness, Karma-Crim-Krama

Tyler has learned to scramble up on the couch. He’s a huge cuddler, but a cuddler with a mischievous side. He likes to bring a toy to chew and then cuddle up with me. Every so often he’ll reach over and bite my sleeve, to see if I’m paying attention. Right now he’s cuddled up [...]

RIP DFW

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