Whether we're putting on a mask to protect ourselves and others from illness; meditating regularly so we engender kindness, patience, and compassion; or waking up to social inequities and our ability to enact change, each one's individual existence is emphatically intertwined with every other one's.
Read moreLive your yoga values in 2023
While yogic practice may create a temporary cocoon of comfort, ultimately it is about increasing our comfort with discomfort and standing in the values of truth, love, service, peace, and reducing the suffering of all beings.
Read moreThe Chorus of Change
When we recognize yoga as an embodied practice, it becomes a projection of our deepest voices asking for peace to prevail, for justice to rule, for humanity to rally round itself.
Read moreEyes wide open
Now, in the tyranny of blue lit devices, we watch ourselves watching current events unraveling with shocking disturbance and visceral torment. Perhaps these times call for a two-way mirror, the kind that uses one side to show you how you appear in the moment, and functions on the other side like a clear window to the world.
Read moreThe Stretch of Dreams
If we consider wakeful dreams to be stretches of the imagination, or nighttime dreams as a chance for the sleep-state mind to stretch out into far reaches of fancy or aspiration, we can practice the "stretchy" aspect of yoga in the same way.
Read moreThe Intersection of Wellness and Social Justice: A Message from Annie & Amir
We stand in a public square, where wellness and social justice intersect. Around this intersection is the scaffolding of four hundred-plus years of institutionalized racism, and we are either unwittingly benefiting from it, or suffering in its shadows. Neither condition serves the cause of wellness in any community.
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