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The Obstacles in Practice
The 9 Obstacles of Yoga as defined by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras
Sangha and keeping a heart practice
I hope you entered 2024 with some peace and ease in your heart. At Newburgh Yoga Shala we began the year looking at the deeper meaning of...
Pausing to Appreciate
As I was closing up the last portion of the different practices I'm blessed to hold important to keep cultivating an open heart and a...
What are you focusing on in your practice these days
A student recently asked me ‘What are you focusing on in your practice these days?’ Within the lineage of AshtangaYoga, parenting is the...
Surya Namaskar is an offering
The Sun God, Surya, is portrayed as riding a chariot with seven horses, twelve wheels and eight spokes on in each wheel. He is...
Practice is the anchor.
The Gita defines yoga as the sum of what one must do to realize the Self. It begins with the way of selfless action (Karma Yoga), passes...
The importance of Surya
We practice Surya Namaskara to bring health to the body. Surya is the Sun God, also known as Dev or Rav. Surya is that which gives life...
Reflections on the process of Yoga
You come to yoga perhaps thinking there's a beginning and an end, and a class has an arch but it's not something that is and then isn't....
On the quality of Maitri, friendliness.
Maitri is the sanskrit word for friendliness. We see it in the yoga sutras book one verse 33: " maitri karuna muditopeksanam sukha duhkha...