My Other Car Is A Yoga Mat: Snake In The Class

One day, mid-flow, I noticed the rest of the class was already down-dogging it while I was still pulling my heart through my arms in bhujangasana (cobra). Which surprised me. I’ve always avoided bhujangasana. Teachers bust me for rushing through it. And when I have managed to stay in the pose for the requisite number [...]

By |2015-04-11T12:08:36-07:00May 1st, 2009|Yoga|0 Comments

Obama-Rama

Chant-4-Change Sets The Nation’s Capital Alight January 20, 2009. It was a day that will not soon be forgotten: Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. Only one day earlier, on Martin Luther King, Jr Day, some four hundred yogis, yoginis, and those with a general taste for the [...]

By |2015-04-11T12:15:13-07:00April 5th, 2009|Cause & Activism|0 Comments

My Other Car Is A Yoga Mat: Thanks For Nothing

I was settling into my end-of-class lotus, feeling so grateful for my yoga practice, ready for a little oming. But no. The teacher asked us to mentally list three things we were grateful for. And I panicked. Because I’ve quit gratitude lists. It's not that I’m an ingrate. I thank people all the [...]

By |2015-04-11T12:28:59-07:00December 27th, 2008|Yoga|0 Comments

My Other Car Is A Yoga Mat

Don’t Think of it as Pain Don’t think of it as pain,” my first yoga teacher used to say. “Think of it as sensation.” Yes, painful sensation. But I did start to think of it as sensation. And it helped. So I shifted my attitude off the mat too. For instance, I didn’t [...]

By |2015-04-11T12:39:03-07:00October 27th, 2008|Yoga|0 Comments

My Other Car Is A Yoga Mat

The Generation Trap I’m a third-generation American, a second-generation control freak, and I now realize, a first-generation yogi. The other day, I was reading a teacher’s bio. Her first teacher? Her mom. She’s been practicing since she was two. “I’ll never catch up,” I thought, which just put me farther behind. If I’d been practicing [...]

By |2015-04-11T20:51:11-07:00July 23rd, 2008|Yoga|0 Comments

My Other Car Is A Yoga Mat

Beth of Both Worlds I used to be a total yoga snob. So when one of my yoga friends reappeared in our world-class class and confessed she’d been ‘doing yoga at the gym,’ I thought, ‘Gym Yoga?! I would never do gym yoga!’ She was back in our class now, because she’d been injured. Sure, [...]

By |2015-04-11T21:15:26-07:00May 26th, 2008|Yoga|0 Comments
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