Each month at the Samarya Center there is a theme, and for that month we focus our practice and meditation on that theme.( Santosha )

Surrender. All though the yoga class I knew it was coming. We're supposed to be thinking about it when we practice yoga; the concept this month at the Samarya Center is Ishvarapranidhana, or surrender to god. I don't freak out so much about the god part as the surrender part. The autistic part of my brain never wants to let anything go.

I got a ( Read more... )

 I left yoga tonight feeling really lonely. I feel like I'm the one that reaches out, that pulls people out to go play, that rushes in to meet new people and try new things. I am a planet at a pivot of a galaxy of orbits, and I love all those crazy worlds out there. I love exploring them. I am nourished when I am at home, for I am usually alone. ( Read more... )

I don't think I've ever aumed sincerely. For some reason I will happily lead a room full of singing strangers through a round in German but I just can't take an aum in a yoga class seriously. I've dabbled in yoga classes for years: ashtanga, where you hop around constantly, acro yoga, where I felt like there was just enough of each to not be ( Read more... )