July 2012
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July 2012: Conference with Sharath Jois by Megan...
This week’s conference began with Sharath reiterating the importance of all 8 limbs of Ashtanga as we think beyond just our asana practice, beyond the series of postures we work through each day. He explained that the first four limbs, Yama, Niyama, Asana, and Pranayama, relate to the external practice. At a most basic level these represent rules of behavior to self and to others, the discipline...
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dearest teachers,
I will always be a student. This is a fact I simply cannot shake tonight, along with the very idea that I can be available for others and frankly screwed up in my own shit at the same time. I mean that in the best way possible… I’m settling with the fact that I am nothing magnificent.
An instructor, a coach, teacher, whatever title you give yourself should you be a relayer of...
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Transcript from Sharath Jois Conference, 2012
In this conference Sharath spoke on a number of different topics. He started by discussing the need for students to persevere with practice for a long time. Sharath commented that many places offer the fast track to certification, as well as all kinds of new variations on yoga invented as ways to ‘sell’ yoga to people. He talked about the need to practice authentic yoga that has not been...
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