YOU

"You don't need to find yourself for you never lost yourself" Mark Whitwell

What a powerful statement...meditate on that for the day.

If we were never lost, then what are we searching for?
As Mark and his teachers say, "To merge and to be with our own experience, rather than react, is yoga"


This is the yoga I practice, I teach, I believe.


This is yoga where if all I can do is breath in and out on the subway or in traffic, or maybe before I go to sleep I inhale and exhale my hands above my head and to the floor for a few minutes...then I am yoga.


As Mark says, "All you need to be a yogi(ini) is your body, breath and the beautiful embrace of your own reality"


That sounds like a perfect mixture to me...and something that I can take anywhere I go, for the rest of my life.


So far, it has already impacted my life on a deep level bc there is no excuse that I do not have enough time or money to practice yoga...bc yoga is me, breathing strength receiving.


om shanti

DO even when you don't want to Do it

What a past few days...
First of all I have had a horrible stomach ache. Its so strange...I was in India for a month and never got sick...and then after eating a vegan pita pocket with an organic salad in NYC...boom! I got food poisoning or something painful and awful.
Doing my yoga was not easy.
So I simply did alot of breathing...deep breathing...a lot of child pose...for a long period of time.
And what did seem to help was leg raises and the Single and Double Wind Relieving poses: Vatayanasana.
This pose gently massages the digestive system and gives relief from excess gas (hence the name of the pose) , stomach and intestines.
basically you lie on your back
inhale and exhale on knee to your chest
pull in the knee to your chest with your hands wrapped around the knee
breath in and out
switch legs
do this four or five times with at least 2 or 4 big breathes while holding the knee to the chest.
Then you can bring both knees to the chest and inhale and exhale for a while.

What a relief!
To find more great releaving yoga poses...check out the book: The Sivananda Companion to Yoga

Om Shanti