Tag Archive for ‘john friend’
Passages
Have you been in a class at Willow Street where your teacher set the theme of the class as “change”? In our practice of yoga, we experience change in many ways, from the mat to what we take from the mat into our daily lives. Whether planned or unexpected, change permeates the flow of life. Change is the one thing we can [...]
01/11/10 10:11 PM
No Complaining!
One of the lesser-known benefits of establishing a regular yoga practice is that we complain less. It’s probably a surprising and an unintended result … most students don’t come to yoga to stop complaining! But it happens almost automatically … and surreptitiously. Complaining is wishing reality to be different than it is. It is resisting [...]
10/18/08 5:12 PM
Turn Inward, Reach Outward
I recently attended the Anusara Certified Teachers Gathering in Denver, CO. A group of 150 certified teachers came together for 5 days of inspiring practices led by Anusara founder John Friend and transformational presentations by Paul Muller, an internationally recognized scholar in the field of Tantric philosophy. One of the major emphases in Anusara is [...]
07/30/08 5:10 PM
Gratitude
My journey of yoga is one of Gratitude; for the insights, healing, blessings, and the complete transformation of my life. I cherish every moment, every breath, all the experiences it has taken to get here. I found my first yoga class at a church in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, where yoga was anything but mainstream. I [...]
02/11/08 8:16 AM
Master Teachers
I write this from the vantage point of 37,000 feet above our earth, looking both up at the bluest of blue skies and down at cloud patterns of marshmallow fluff, and am seized with a sense of gratitude for the supreme beauty of our planet, and all that is in my life since I embarked [...]
01/7/08 7:50 AM
Interview with Suzie Hurley
Suzie Hurley is a certified Senior Anusara Yoga Teacher and Director of the Willow Street Yoga Center in Takoma Park, Maryland. In this interview, Suzie shares with us her fated journey from student to teacher and her early beginnings as a reluctant teacher at Pope Airforce Base in Fayetteville, NC. Suzie has been a student [...]
12/15/07 10:47 PM
What is Anusara Yoga?
Anusara means “flowing with Grace” or “following your heart.” Developed by John Friend, Anusara is a style of hatha yoga that encompasses the physical, mental, and spiritual dimensions of yoga. Anusara Yoga is an exceptionally therapeutic system because it is founded on Universal Principles of Alignment that bring the body into balance. This specific alignment [...]
12/6/07 8:01 AM
Living with Virtuosity
The Tantric Philosophy that underlies Anusara Yoga is a philosophy of intrinsic Goodness. The absolute essence of everything is Supreme Consciousness that pulsates with pure Goodness. Out of its infinite freedom, Supreme Consciousness chooses to limit itself by becoming embodied as the material universe in order that it may enjoy the experience of diversity. Living [...]
11/25/07 5:07 PM
False Ceilings
Six Years ago I attended an Intermediate/Advanced Yoga Workshop taught by John Friend in Utah. We practiced all kinds of challenging and unusual poses, as well as the more typical postures. One day John had me demonstrate Adho Mukha Vrksasana, the Handstand Pose. I love this pose and have practiced it for years. However, he [...]
10/19/07 8:02 AM
A Most Honorable Profession
When I first began teaching yoga in 1981, yoga wasn’t exactly entrenched in the mainstream as it is now. I had been meditating for four years and doing asana out of a book daily. There was never a thought about becoming a yoga teacher, as I had four children, ages 7-14, and it was all [...]
10/8/07 3:06 PM
