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Mysore, Week 4
Santosa, the Sanskrit word for contentment, means to enjoy your life. Enjoy by giving to others, by giving to your community, by giving to someone. These are the first notes I have from February 3rd...
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Mysore, Week 6
Gleaned from Conference on February 16, 2013: It’s very possible for a man to look strong on the outside, but be weak on the inside. Take this statement to mean physical, mental, emotional, etc....
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Mysore, Week 7
Jayashree and Narasimhan have returned to Mysore and I have taken up study with them. It is such a delight to be with them; they are such wonderful people. Wisdom spills from their humble mouths and...
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Mysore, The Final Remarks
From my last Conference with Sharath, my final week with Jayashree and Narasimhan, and a healthy dash from my own wandering mind. My first day in Mysore my teacher, Kimberly Flynn, told me that the...
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Teaching Beginners
A student asked me if I like teaching beginners. The student had seen me leading a new student through their very first Mysore style class, with all the challenges and difficulties that come with...
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Everyone Wants to be Beautiful
The inherent problem with Ashtanga yoga is that it makes you beautiful. Enter a Mysore room and you step through a portal into the land of smooth skinned and well defined bodies flushed with hot blood...
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Feelings, Ick.
When asked to describe the Ashtanga yoga method I often include the fact that I do just about the same series of postures every day. “But doesn’t that get boring?” is often the response. Well, yes,...
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Direct Experience
In order to understand yoga you must have a direct experience of yoga. Talking about yoga is an exercise in futility if it not accompanied with practice. My student Emily has been gracious enough to...
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Obsessed Much?
Once upon a time, in a land far away (India) I was sitting in a very hot room packed to the gills with yogis listening to a man on a stage talk about practice. The man was Sharath, grandson of Pattabhi...
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No Pain, No Gain
“Yoga is a pain free practice.” This statement is a lie. Yoga is a process of transformation and transformation is more often than not accompanied by some sort of pain. I wonder how it feels for the...
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