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  Yo yo yogis! The Yamas are the first of the eight limbed path, the foundation of yogic practice as prescribed by Patanjali. “Yama” means restraint or control, and it is the way in which we [...]

This week we are looking at the yama of brahmacarya. Brahmacarya is often known as the ‘sex one’ and to the naked (no pun intended…) eye can appear to be about celibacy. When we [...]

As we end the yamas and approach the niyamas, I thought this week’s blog was best served merging the two worlds. Recently, I’ve started watching the news more. Considering I live in [...]

Chumbawumba and Tubthumping.. who’d a’ thought that while they were ‘pissing the night away’ they were also gracing us with lyrical genius. “I get knocked down, but [...]

Below is an excerpt from one my favorite yoga teachers, Judith Hanson Lasater. If you haven’t read her book Living Your Yoga, I HIGHLY recommend it.I was always taught that tapas was [...]

Aparigraha= non-greediness or non-possessiveness. This is the yama for letting go. To me, aparigraha is the yama that we as Americans neglect the most. Since the Industrial Revolution, the word [...]

Brahmacharya: the practice of restraining the pursuit of fleeting pleasures. This yama directly speaks to not having a lusty aappetite, but since I’m no longer single or in my early [...]

I love this paragraph from the Yoga Journal: Asteya, or “not stealing,” refers to the stealing that grows from believing we cannot create what we need. We steal because we misperceive [...]

asteya: non-stealing Non-stealing, ok obvi, don’t go around stealing shit… If you’re working on simply not stealing material things… well then get to work, son. [...]

So like the rest of America, I have been less than thrilled with some of Miley Cyrus’s antics over the past year or so. However, as I was contemplating the yama for this week: Satya, it [...]