Learning to Listen to the Body
Join me in Turkey for a week of practice, and travel. We’ll come home to ourselves and our bodies, learning to notice its cues. We’ll practice reconnecting to our intuition through yoga, meditation, rest, beautiful, mindful meals, adventure and coaching.
"You Take Rest": The Medicalization and Politicization of Śavāsana
Śavāsana is taught for the first time in the Dattātreyayogaśāstra (13th c. CE), therein described as one of the saṃketas, or secret methods of layayoga (Mallinson, 2017: 90). The Haṭhapradīpikā (15th c. CE) refashions śavāsana as a posture, corpse pose. It moreover assigns therapeutic benefit. Today śavāsana is a compulsory component of modern postural practice, and is framed in contemporary biomedical, political, and religious rhetoric.
Using primary and secondary textual and visual material from a range of interdisciplinary fields of study, this paper investigates how rest became a pan-yogic mandate in modern yoga culture and practice.
Art2BeHuman
This FREE day of virtual workshops celebrates the intersection of life, art and purpose. Sunday 22 May 2022 1:00-5.30PM BST | 5-9:30AM PST.
Timekeeping
Become a timekeeper. In this virtual workshop you’ll learn the basics of counting in the Ashtanga Vinyasa system to gain greater focus, clarity and insight.
Feet Firmly Planted
Our feet are firmly planted. Rooted we will rise. Join me in Ojai for a weekend of grounding practices to reconnect to ourselves, the earth and each other.
Microorganisms from a Macro Perspective
What might Jain cosmology teach us about the importance of reverence? In this lecture I propose that love for the smallest of creatures might expand our vision of a kinder world.
QAnon Shamanism: When Conspiracy Thinking and Spirituality Converge
A Conversation with Erik Davis, Jules Evans and Erica Magill on the causes, and possible routes out of conspiritual thinking.
Kinship
Come, Kin. Let’s Gather. A weekend gathering to address allegations of abuse within the Ashtanga Yoga community.