"I've been attending Sun & Moon for over five years and worked with several instructors. When somebody asked me which was my favorite instructor, I thought about it for a moment and said, 'I don't know, which is your favorite Beatles song?"
Read moreCast your vision for weekly well-being in 2024
In general, the time you carve out for yourself may be scarce; in yoga, this time can be sacred, especially when it's earmarked in your calendar each week.
Read moreBe Micro-Amazed
It's a lot easier to be mindful for extraordinary moments - reading a captivating novel, or eating a delicious meal, or sitting with a dear friend in their heartache - than it is to be mindful while walking 20 steps from one place in our home to the next.
Read moreFinding Your Inner Guide
Investigating the balance between being a student who follows a teacher's lead, and being one's own guide in a moment-by-moment existence with ever-changing needs.
Read moreGetting in
Instead of having to remember a password to "get in" to a good place, we only need recall that we already are just where we need to be: right here in the present moment.
Read moreGiving Joyful
Consider joy as an active state of loving friendliness, compassionate presence, and generous spirit – envision it as the energy that you radiate, and not an energy you consume.
Read moreInsight Yoga Intensive with Sarah Powers This Summer
Sarah will guide us through three streams of study: the active stillness of yin yoga, the energizing mobility of yang asana practice, and the deep inquiry and insight that can come from meditation.
Read moreA True Start
The perennial New Year's Resolution is getting a makeover, and I'm glad for it. The old look was hard to keep up with, swathed in an attitude that we weren't good enough last year, so we better kick it up this year; we all know how that turned out. By February, we were exhausted and demoralized, and whatever habits we were seeking to change tended to creep back in, leaving many with the feeling that the new year got off to a false start.
Read moreHappy New Year
We send you our most sincere wishes for happiness, peace, and relief from suffering as the new year dawns. May it be a bright and healthy 2023 for all!
Read moreLaser focus yields big energy
This phenomenon of sharply focused attention yielding a surplus of energy is the opposite of our social programming, which tells us to divide attention in multi-tasked directions, to push beyond our comfort zones, to go big or go home, but all this external focus can leave us frustrated, anxious, and depleted, much like the state of Earth itself.
Read moreSpontaneous Gratitude
Through mindful practice, we can find an intangible, unexpressed part of consciousness that can keep us grounded and awake to subtle forms of wisdom and understanding. It may guide skillful response to agitation and annoyance, it could help us find space for self-care, and in the presence of hate or anger, it has the potential to tell us whether to walk away or confront with courage.
Read moreMake It a No-Stress Season
If you're already feeling stressed about the uptick of social activity and demands on your time for the next six weeks, here's a three-part invitation to put it into some yoga postural perspective, keeping the days "holy" and your mood balanced.
Read moreYou Might Need A Butterfly Hug Right Now
Try this simple hack for moments of anxiety and overwhelm
Read moreWhat's A Weekend?
While setting aside Saturdays and Sundays for pure relaxation is still the ideal for many, what seems more common is a daily jumbled program of work, ease, socializing, exercise, and self-care.
Read moreInto the Deep: In-Depth Teacher Training Sneak Peek
Have you been toying with joining an acclaimed 200-hour teacher training program? We lead folks into the deep curiosity, fellowship, and learning that a yoga journey can inspire.
Read moreNew Skills and Freshly Cut Grass
Because we know that the human brain is malleable, neuroscience has been able to map the avenues of new neural pathway creation toward the best of who we can be: more confident, more creative, more attentive, more patient, more resilient. In a word, happier.
Read moreWhat's the quality of your attention?
I now recognize the experience as awareness waking up to its full potential for expansive wonder, a lesson in how paying full attention is fundamental to mindfulness. It anchors us in the moment, it helps our nervous system distinguish between real and imagined threat, and it orients us to the realm where the breath is most available.
Read moreMake it a playshop!
Clothes come in different sizes, food comes in different flavors, and humans come in different shapes. Why then should we expect every person to do yoga postures the same way?
Read moreChange your outlook
Humans flourish when we expose ourselves to diverse experience: our worldview expands when we live, learn, and work in diverse communities; our digestion works better when we eat a wide variety of food; our bodies are more balanced when we move in lots of different ways; and our spirits are lifted when we lay our eyes on fresh landscapes.
Read moreTexting, typos, and making connections
The beauty here is that our brains are programmed to put the pieces – or the letters – together. It's the same neurological mercy that prevents us from having to re-learn to brush our teeth each morning, or check a recipe every time we want to boil water to make tea. It frees up the mental and emotional space to learn and process the big stuff: how to live through a pandemic; how to know if we're in love; how to appropriately mourn losses and celebrate gains.
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