Food, healing and yoga–Oh My!
As I continue to research yoga and diet, I find that yogis continually discuss diet, our behavior, how we take care of our bodies and minds, and so much more than just doing yoga postures. The physical is only the beginning. We cannot go much deeper if we cannot...
Aparigraha: Letting go of greed
Do we need to live without any possessions to reach enlightenment or to be spiritual? I think not. It's more about having what we need and not taking more than our share.When we are little, we learn that we need to share. Patanjali explains to us in YS 2.39...
Brahmicharya: Moderation
Tanzanian sunset by Laurel SteeleModeration is not a word that most people like to hear or adhere to. Especially in the West, I am surrounded and some times find myself consuming way more than my share of food, space, and energy.Of course science explains that Energy...
Asteya: Cash-register honesty, abundance and more
Some of my favorite jewelsOne of the important things we learn early in life is to not take things that don't belong to us. I remember taking a package of Sugar Babies from the drug store when I was little--maybe 5 years old. When we got out to the pick up, my...
Ahimsa–what does it really mean to be nonviolent?
Ahimsa (nonviolence) is the first moral principle that Patanjali presents to us in the Yoga Sutra, and therefore, ahimsa is the foundation with which we can choose to live and build our yogic lives around. What does this nonviolence thing entail?How we think, act,...
Satya: Speak Your Truth
"Only one thing is worse than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking it." Naomi WolfFor some of us, we were not able to speak our truth when we were young. For others, no matter how old we were, we could not speak our truth for fear there would be consequences....
