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Home Practice Challenges for Ashtanga Yoga Practitioners

In this video, Michael Joel Hall discusses the challenges and benefits of practicing yoga at home without a teacher.
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Asymmetry?

This article explains how natural body asymmetry affects yoga practice and how to train imbalanced sides safely
Articles Nov 1

Home Practice Challenges for Ashtanga Yoga Practitioners

In this video, Michael Joel Hall discusses the challenges and benefits of practicing yoga at home without a teacher.
Articles Oct 31

Action Indicates Priority

I’m sending these out because I quit social media and I need attention. What I actually want is for you to reply and tell me you’re coming. I’ll drop one every night at midnight....
Articles Oct 31

Breathing Through Depression

Both high-dose and low-dose yoga with breathing exercises significantly reduced depressive symptoms in adults with Major Depressive Disorder over 12 weeks.
Articles Oct 29

Built to Collapse

She ran the shala for nineteen years. Three hundred students across two decades. She knew every body in the room, every injury, every limitation, every breakthrough. The curriculum lived inside...
Articles Oct 27

You Can’t Have a Bad Practice

Here’s what a bad practice actually requires. It requires you to show up with an idea of who’s practicing — how much energy they have, what their hips are doing, how steady their...
Articles Oct 25

Samadhi on a Tuesday

Samadhi lives in a particular part of the spiritual imagination — somewhere between mountaintop and miracle. You picture it arriving after years of austere practice, maybe in a cave, definitely in...
Articles Oct 25

Yogic Agency: The Practice on Purpose

There’s no secret to a transformative practice. Anyone selling one is selling something else. What there is: yogic agency.