Tag: yoga
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Add a Little Colour
This post may not make sense to you immediately, but think about it for a moment and just see what comes to you. Occasionally I like to observe things from a framework other than the one I usually use. I find that new ideas present themselves simply because of the different vantage point I have…
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Cultivated and Wild
I strongly recommend practicing postural yoga with a keen awareness and development of appropriate and proper alignment. Alignment may be practiced within the physical body itself to create balanced integration and expansion and thus to allow safe opening within the body. It may also be practiced between the various layers of you (body, breath, mind, and heart)…
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Just Be…
I have a book of quotations that I have collected over the years. I enjoy perusing the collection every once in a while to see what I might see, and this one stood out to me today. It is from a book by Ann Daly called Critical Gestures: Writings on Dance and Culture. Practicing yoga helps us shift…
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Everyday Memories
This is a drawing of an old memory. It was drawn by my good friend Ellen (she is standing second from the left). It depicts a very simple and everyday occasion; standing at a bus stop with friends on our way to school. I have placed this drawing above my desk where I see it and…
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Anticipation
I don’t know if you can see them, but there are three tiny pea sprouts in this photo. They just came up yesterday! Every spring when I plant new seeds in the garden I feel a mixture of anticipation and slight anxiety. I expect and am excited for new plants of all kinds, but am…
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Measuring Time
Why does it feel so luxurious to wake up with the sunshine when camping, even if it is very early in the morning? Why do we feel so much anxiety around the possibility of being late for work? Why does it feel different when you set out to be in a yoga posture for ten breaths…
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Courage
This weekend I participated in a workshop focused on arm balancing postures. The word courage came up and it got me thinking. By definition, courage depends on fear. What allows us to acknowledge our fear and then act courageously? I think it is trust. We trust our own skills and abilities to safely move us through a situation.…
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Roots
The roots of our physical postures provide the steadiness we need to grow and explore and flourish within each one. If our roots and core support structure are not deep and strong, then our expansion will not reach its potential. This asks us to be patient and diligent in deepening our roots and strengthening our core…
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Beginner’s Mind
“…[T]he most seriously advanced yoga student is the one who shows up regularly in his or her practice with an attitude of beginner’s mind. Practicing each day as though it is the first time, the advanced student appreciates that there is always something new to learn when doing yoga. Unattached to the outcome of the…
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Bring your yoga off the mat
From my vantage point, yoga brings together the body, mind, breath, and heart. It gives us time to pay attention to each of these aspects of ourselves. It gives us space to harmonize them so that we feel integrated and whole. This is a worthy, playful, and challenging practice regardless of the kind of postural yoga…
Roxoliana Prus RMT 