Take Your Practice Beyond the Mat
Take your practice with you beyond the mat. Here are a few of those Beyond the Mat ideas to integrate into your practice: Breath awareness, being aware
Natasha Korshak is a long-time teacher and trainer of yoga, meditation, mindfulness and MBSR, and has been working in the field of integrative health and wellness her entire professional career. She is a graduate of the Interfaith Theological Seminary and an ordained Interfaith Minister specializing in contemplative practice, grief processing, and spiritual direction. Her study and training of mind/body/spirit methods is extensive and she has learned from many of the pioneers in their discipline. As the founder and director of the Sol Center she is well regarded for her depth, warmth, authenticity, and the smile in her voice.
Take your practice with you beyond the mat. Here are a few of those Beyond the Mat ideas to integrate into your practice: Breath awareness, being aware
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, or the Satipatthana Sutta, is the classical teaching attributed to the Buddha which outlines a simple, direct way anyone may lessen and end suffering
Inner Peace. What are “intentional actions” …implied as working as skillfully as possible with the past/present momentum of doing
I use to teach a lot of yoga, hours every day. I joked that, though it wasn’t all super physical, I was a marathon yoga teacher. Helping other convert Oxygen to Energy
One of my favorite simple thought adjustments recently is to shift from thinking about life happening to me or me having to make things happen, to life happening through me.
There is a meditative inquiry process I learned from my Integrative Restoration/iRest training that I find very potent. It involves the alternation between polarities to create a new felt sense of something in between.
Rama Jyoti Vernon was known to say “we can have our cake and eat it too,” in this case implying that we can honor all that life offers us: we can be comfortable, successful, of service, and in route to God.
Churning of the Ocean of Milk tells the tale of a search for immortality. In order to find it, opposite beings must work & churn together …Alas, once it is found there is another struggle for which half shall imbibe it.
The analysis yielded five particular facets: acting with awareness, describing, non-reactivity to inner experience, non-judging of inner experience, and observing. Using this template, here are some key touchstones to orient you towards the cultivation of mindfulness on a regular basis.
Grieving is natural and it is hard. There are many forms of grief; some stemming from birth and childhood, some from particular occurrences or from a progression of causes and conditions, some that will be with us every day, and some that do eventually ebb and integrate into the weave of our life. Each of us…
Having a home yoga practice has a whole new meaning in this time of virtual yoga classes …Students have commented that while virtual classes aren’t quite the same, they have helped them create structure, practice more regularly
I watch, listen, and sense into the events of these past weeks. The tragic death of Ahmaud Arbery. The knee on the neck of George Floyd. The ridiculous responses of our president, who has fanned racial tensions flagrantly all along. What am I to do? How am I to meet the moment?
We are all feeling so much right now, processing a lot of news, figuring out how to prepare and how to adapt- at home and at work. What we may not realize is that we are grieving as well.
We are all feeling so much right now, processing a lot of news, figuring out how to prepare and how to adapt- at home and at work. What we may not realize is that we are grieving as well.
The Sol Center is temporarily closing in response to the COVID-19 situation. As there is no recipe to ensure everyone’s safety in gathering at the Sol Center, this decision was made to protect us all within our community…
In the desert, Spring is special as it is our pause before the extreme heat. If we are mindful, we make the most of these mild days. We enjoy the ability to cease heating and/or cooling our homes, cars, offices. We sleep with the windows open. We enjoy the wild flowers.
Use the Mindful practice of STOP anytime to keep daily stress from building up, and anytime you are feeling extra pressure.
Welcome to the Fall Season. It may be helpful to remember that this is a transitional time …and a Jimmy Buffet song that packs a profound mindfulness message.
Awareness and Kindness are both integral to the development of mindfulness; and while I am being poetic, you are probably reading this because you have heard some of the science. Mindfulness is a mind/body skill that measurably benefits us in a variety of physiological and psychological ways.
With awareness of the present moment, your busy mind will not be an obstacle. I heard this poem read in a meditation class, early in my mindfulness journey, and it has always stayed with me.