JR: If you are happy, not much else matters in life

“Being happy, that’s the main thing I’m trying to help with. If you’re happy, not much else matters in life, at least in my experience. There’s various ways to be happy, of course. I’m trying to tell people the things that I have learned. I’m trying to teach them to be curious, independent. It’s very […]

BKS Iyengar on “Jumping” in Yoga

Overcoming Asana has a very detailed piece on jumping back in Ashtanga Yoga. I encourage all yoga practioners to read it when they have the opportunity. “Iyengar talking about his guru Krishnamacharya in an interview from the movie Enlighten up. Iyengar is focusing on the ‘jumping’ aspect of Krishnamacharya’s teaching and explaining it as a […]

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CC: In Praise of the ‘Shala’

I always feel a pang when I hear a shala is closing; distance is no matter, so the closing of a Jois studio makes me sad for the students. My very first Ashtanga class was at Yoga Path in Irvine, California–across from where I worked. I blundered into the Ashtanga class by accident; the Iyengar class was […]