Join Kate Hallahan, E-RYT for a lecture on yoga for women’s health. Issues such as depression, anxiety, PMS, menstrual discomfort, and menopause will be addressed. This lecture is directed towards yoga teachers, or for yoga students with their own home practice.
Introduction to the Yoga Sutras
The Yoga Sutra offers a practical path for achieving the state of yoga–union between mind, body, and spirit. Join Kate Hallahan and the students at Charlottesville Yoga School for a free 90 minute lecture on this seminal text of classical yoga. This talk includes historical background and an overview of concepts contained within [...]
Cultivating the Ability to Respond
For many of us, summer is a time that brings back pleasant memories of the carefree days of our youth. These were the times before we had to take responsibility for attending to the details, such as paying the bills on time, that keep the utilities turned on and life flowing smoothly.
Stepping into adulthood has [...]
Finding Deeper Reserves
The days are steadily growing longer and warmer, and the    nights are gradually losing their chill. Coming out of a long,  cold winter, many of us are finding our energy levels rising  and our calendars growing busier. It seems that every week  there is a different festival or other opportunity to get [...]
Creating Sustainable Practice
In these last few days it has felt as though spring is just around the corner. The snow that has been lingering for several weeks is starting to melt, exposing fertile soils to the encouraging sun. Because it has been a gradual warming rather than a sudden rise in temperature, the streams and rivers are [...]
Building a Bridge Between Seasons
We now find ourselves halfway between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox. Earth-based spirituality celebrates the period from February 1st-February 4th by observing a holiday called Candlemas. One of eight fire rituals in the traditional calendar, it marks an important time of purification and passage. It is interesting to note its counterpart in the Christian tradition, in [...]
Attention to Alignment: Hip Opening in Standing Postures
Paying attention to alignment in your yoga postures can be confusing. Lift this, drop that; lengthen here, shorten there; soften one side and strengthen the other one. And, in the meantime: don’t forget to breathe.
For many students, looking more closely at alignment can be intimidating. Alleviate that stress by breaking the postures up into sets [...]
Revolutionary Resolution
Many of us have made new year’s resolutions regarding personal qualities that we would like to cultivate in the year ahead. We can relate this practice of intention-setting to the yogic concept of svadhyaya, often translated as self-study.  Honest, intimate self-reflection is seen as integral to almost any spiritual path. But yoga asks: can we engage [...]
Holiday Presence
This is a time of year when it is common to find ourselves feeling a sense of overwhelm. Daylight is dwindling and our energy is on the wane. At the same time, social and familial obligations for many of us are on the rise. Whether we enjoy holiday gatherings or not is beside the point. [...]
Opening to What Is
Now is a time for embracing the Darkness. In a literal sense, the nights have become longer and colder; in a figurative sense, Hallowmas and the days that follow are the time of year when the veil between our world and the underworld is most transient, and when we are best able to shed light [...]
