Insights on Yoga, Meditation, and Mindfulness
Welcome to our collection of insights on Yoga, Meditation, and Mindfulness. Please explore them as an aide in the deepening of your own practice and understanding. Our community strives to bring people together, whether you’re a beginner or an experienced yogi or meditator, who is passionate about these practices.
Growing Your Home Yoga Practice
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
Autumn Equinox & Mindfulness with Jimmy Buffett: Breathe In, Breathe Out, Move On
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.
Bringing Mindfulness to Grief & Loss
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...
The Practice of Mindfulness Has a Shadow, and There’s More to the Story
Mindfulness isn't risk-free, and we think that's worth saying out loud. In response to The Atlantic's 'The Dark Side of Mindfulness,' Natasha Korshak unpacks the research on meditation's adverse effects, why teachers dismissed the warning signs, and how we can practice safely.
Yoga Paradigm
One way I address the Yoga paradigm in comparison to the Western…
Yoga, Astrology, & Mindfulness, Oh My!
When asked how yoga, astrology, and mindfulness fit together. First of all, they don’t have to. Within each field of knowledge and practice, there is ...
Why We Chant at the end of many of our yoga classes
At the end of many of our yoga classes we chant the mantra AUM. It is the great utterance of the Vedic Tradition, where yoga comes from. It is a way ...
Sleep of the Yogi: Finding the Rest & Recovery We All Need
Join Natasha Korshak for Yoga Nidra with Tucson musician Stephen Pedone, accompanying live on guitar to set the tone for the practice. Natasha will explain to us the foundations, guide us, and help us practice Yoga Nidra
Purpose, Practice, Prayer
Purpose is much deeper than intention and goals, yet supports them. It is a topic dear to me as it inspired the center into being and fuels it every day.
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
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness or The Satipatthana Sutta
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 – Six things to make it easier
Inner Peace. What are “intentional actions” ...implied as working as skillfully as possible with the past/present momentum of doing
Converting Oxygen to Energy
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
Reflections, Appreciations, and Intentions
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.
The Truth is Somewhere In Between – Meditative Inquiry Process
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.
In honor of our beloved Rama Jyoti Vernon
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
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.
Five Facets of a Mindful Person
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.
Reflections: The Week Of My Birthday 2020
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?
Moore, Jung, Vedic Astrology and Current Events Part One
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
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.