31 Dec A New Year’s Eve Prayer from The Mother
At every moment we must shake off the past like falling dust, that it may not soil the virgin path which, at every moment also, is opening before us. ...
purna yoga Tag
19 Nov My favorite restorative yoga pose: Supta Bharadvajasana
Set aside time on a weekly basis through the holidays to rest and recharge. Even just an hour on a Sunday for a nap, a restorative yoga pose, reading or getting outdoors can rejuvenate you and get you ready for the next event, next work...
24 Sep Meet your new best friend for anti-inflammation
Inflammation in itself is not bad. In fact, it is the body's natural, protective response to injury or destruction of tissues and serves to destroy, dilute or wall off the injurious agent or tissue. But when inflammation becomes chronic, that's when the trouble begins....
27 Jul Stillpoint
This Tuesday night at The Movement Center, I'll be teaching a restorative technique called Still Point. Still Point can take you into a deeply relaxing state very quickly, so it's an effective way to get the benefits of restorative work in a relatively short amount...
20 Jul Kitchen Sink Sequence
This is one of my "kitchen sink" sequences based on the beta sequence taught at all level one classes at Alive and Shine Center, Aadil & Savitri's home studio in Bellevue, Washington. A "kitchen sink" sequence gives you a little bit of everything. It's a...
06 Jul Being a Student as well as a Teacher
Both roles are crucial for each other, especially if you happen to be both. When we teach, we teach what we have integrated during our time as a student. Teaching rests on the fruits of our labor as students, getting things in our bodies and...
17 May A Call for Transformation
Purna Yoga classes often begin with the Gayatri Mantra from the Rigveda and end with Sri Aurobindo’s Gayatri. We start our classes by asking for illumination, but we end our classes asking for transformation, an evolution of consciousness....
07 Oct day one of therapeutics: the neck
A few of my fellow 500 hr teacher and I await the start of the day. Aadil is in the hall, chatting with an assistant. photo: Jayne Cagle of OneJoyfulYoga.com My first day of my first therapeutic training with Aadil Palkhivala is over, and I couldn't be...
06 Oct packing up… getting ready to go…
On Saturday morning, I finished packing my bags, got my house in order, taught a super-fun & productive class to my devoted Saturday Morning Yoga Sangha students, and then hopped in the car and headed to the airport. Destination: Alive & Shine Center in Bellevue,...
15 Aug Happy Birthday, Sri Aurobindo!
Today is the birthday of Sri Aurobindo, political leader and revolutionary, poet, philosopher, and yogi whose spiritual work forms the basis of Purna Yoga. As the first Indian to demand publicly independence for India from Britain, the founder of the Indian Independence movement and later...