Patanjali 2.0: Purity? It’s All A Remix Anyway!
Matthew Remski “Good composers borrow, great composers steal.” Igor Stravinski I love that Matthew Remski chose to call his new book “a remix of patanjali’s yoga sutras.” At least, that’s the subtitle. The title (and the lower case is in the original) is threads of yoga. Like Remski, I am captivated by the felt sense of yoga as being a living tradition, a vital, engaged path of inquiry.It evolves, dependent on culture and timeframe, perpetually... Read More
Reality, Trauma & Grounded Spirituality
INSTINCTIVE ALCHEMY We are sophisticated animals. Our nervous systems have evolved in response to a brutal world, one in which we fought one another for dominance, hunted and killed prey and fled from predators who wanted to eat our flesh. Today, in the presence of stressful enough stimuli, we all react from these instincts. Adrenalin and cortisol stream through our veins, heart rate accelerates, blood rushes form the core of the body to the muscles that will enable fight or flight,... Read More
Yoga and The Invisible Brain
I love teaching and practicing yoga. The combination of breath, embodied awareness, and mental focus provide rich opportunities for psychological insight, emotional healing, self-development and connection with community. I love spirituality. But I may have a different definition of this word than most people. My sense is that the word usually conveys some kind of supernatural belief. Yet when I use it I mean a combination of things that basically add up to an interest in what... Read More
