I tried to put love in everyone's bellies.

Happy Valentines day! Yeah it was yesterday...but your belly ache is today. :)

Speaking of Love...

I LOVE my skull head Herman. He is rad

Meditation for Love

Groggy, gray, sleepy and hitting snooze?

It's hard waking up when its all gray and cold outside. You want to hit snooze...you feel like you just fell asleep. And there is the alarm going off. The best way to wake up?

Step 1...instead of hitting snooze a second...third....fourth time. GET UP!
Sept 2. Do five sun salutations.

Amazing...trust me!

The early morning hours are the best time to practice Yoga! The world is still, your mind and body are still. The energy is less tainted and it allows for focus and concentration.

Come and practice with me in Bushwick! Thursday mornings 6:45-7:45 am. I will start on time and end on time...and you can get to work...on time!

Love and Balance

Divine Love Through Kundalini
Channeling your greatest power out of the clutches of jealousy, anger and loss, and into trust, freedom, and deep residing love. In this workshop we will use Kundalini Yoga Wisdom to go into our own experience and find our true spirit. Emerging with a release of old wounds and an openness to new beginnings. Whether you are in a relationship with another, or with just yourself, you will LOVE this workshop!

Thursday February 16th
8:30pm-10pm
$15 Advance
$20 Door

And

Inversions! Gaining new Perspective w/Ella Luckett

In this workshop we will explore everything there is to know about the inverted Yoga postures. From the benefits, to techniques and safe ways of getting into various poses, you will gain new insight about why and how the ancient guru's told us to turn our world upside down! So come gain new perspective in this fun and enlightening workshop!

Thursday March 1, 8:30-10pm

Great workshops...all at Jai Yoga Arts

Please leave your stuff at the door

Your shoes and your energies. Start new for every Yoga class. Reset and make space for your practice. Then you can come in, sit down, have some tea and practice some Yoga. :)

How significant are we to this world?

Macrocosm...microcosm...

http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/scale_of_the_universe_2012

Pratyahara and finding your center in meditation.

Meditation is difficult. Whether you're just learning how to do it, or if you've been doing it for a while. You will always find that day where you simply cannot turn off your mind chatter. Everything twitches and itches and you can't stop running over your to-do list. This is why we practice Pratyahara. In the classes I teach I will always try to include a seated meditation. It maybe just for the first 3 minutes with deep breathing or at the end after savasana to maintain a quiet but not sleepy mind after the entire practice.

Pratyahara is about not engaging. Literally -drawing towards the opposite. I believe in attachments in life. Its why I live my life. I don't believe I lose myself in the world or because of my attachments. I am pretty confident about being myself in whatever extent that means to myself. And it maybe be based on these attachments but I am not moving to a cave and giving up my belongings. That is not realistic. I love living in NYC. BUT being able to detach to outside stimuli is an important practice overall, especially if I want to live a healthy life in NYC. To sit quietly and let the mind rest, turn my focus inward toward my center. The city is constantly buzzing with stimulus. There are constant advertisements, sirens, parades, people. Lots of energy. Its easy to be constantly engaged and constantly effected by all of this.

When I meditate I focus on my center. The center can mean anything to any given person. For me its somewhere in the heart area. Chinese people make a connection between mind and heart. Your heart is your mind. For other people its the third eye or the center of the brain. Maybe the solar plexus. It doesn't matter, just focus on it. Don't like your thoughts run around, leave your head or your body. Keep it on your center and be comfortable there. Its important to find comfort in yourself and with yourself. Settle into that center and bring all your other energy behind you. Just hold the buzzing back for a moment. And do nothing else.

Channel Palpation

Another book added onto my Amazon wishlist...hint...hint... :)

I just attended a seminar on Channel Palpation. Its all about palpating the acupuncture channels as part of diagnosis. Pretty amazing stuff you can find in there!

more info here.

More cupping

I would like for someone to do this for me today!