Tag Archive for ‘piedmont yoga studio’
Piedmont Yoga Studio News: March 2012
Greetings! The original Piedmont Yoga Studio was located about two blocks east of our current home on Piedmont Avenue. On the first story of an old two-story house that had long been used commercially, the classroom had about 900 square feet of floor space, a little more than a third the size of our current [...]
02/16/12 4:40 PM
Piedmont Yoga Studio News: February 2012
Greetings! Well, as you may know, the residents of Yoga Land have been in high dudgeon over the past week about that William Broad article (adapted from his book, The Science of Yoga: The Risks and Rewards, coming to a bookstore near you in February) published in the New York Times Magazine, “How Yoga Can [...]
02/16/12 4:36 PM
Piedmont Yoga Studio News: November 2011: Thoughts and Practice of Nada Yoga
The subject of the workshop at PYS was Nada Yoga, the yoga of sound. You may have heard of Nada or even taken a Nada class in your travels through Yoga Land. I can almost guarantee though that what you heard about or experienced wasn’t the traditional version of the practice, but instead was a [...]
10/20/11 2:35 PM
Piedmont Yoga Studio News: September 2011
The email was signed by the chairperson of the Ethics Committee of a powerful international Yoga organization. Recently, Yoga Journal published an instructional article I wrote, and someone at the magazine mistakenly credited me as being a teacher certified by this organization. Now just to be clear: Thirty-one years ago, my very first yoga teacher [...]
08/30/11 4:25 PM
News from PYS August 2011: Mudras
I was watching a yoga video this last week when the teacher asked his audience to bring their hands into the “prayer position.” This is of course the familiar palms-pressed-together with the thumbs-against-the-sternum gesture that’s more properly called anjali mudra (pronounced ahn-JAH-lee moo-drah). There’s an interesting story that attends this gesture, but before I tell [...]
07/29/11 10:47 AM
Piedmont Yoga Studio News: July2011 Karma Yoga and the Yoga Sutra
The question came from a student now deeply engrossed in the Yoga Sutra (most editions have the word “Sutras” in the title, but technically Sanskrit doesn’t make a plural with “s,” and anyway “sutra” is both an individual aphorism and a collection of those aphorisms). He was wondering how this manual squared with Karma Yoga, [...]
06/27/11 3:41 PM
Piedmont Yoga Studio News December 2010: A Lesson in Sanskrit
My formal Sanskrit education recently passed the one year mark, so I suppose it’s time to share a bit of What I’ve Learned So Far. First let me say that before starting this weekly class last Fall, I spent 20 frustrating years trying on and (mostly) off to teach myself Sanskrit. I went through maybe [...]
11/30/10 1:06 PM
November 2010 News from Piedmont Yoga Studio
One thing about PYS that may be a little different from many other yoga schools is the plethora of props. If you’re a regular student here you no doubt think all the blocks and blankets and chairs and straps and bags and bolsters are par for the course, but there are a good number of [...]
10/22/10 4:02 PM
When A Body Meets A Body Going To The Ghats
The first attempt at an English translation of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra (“Threads of Yoga”) was made by James Robert Ballantyne (1813-1864), a Scottish Orientalist and linguist. From 1846 to 1861 he was the principal of the prestigious Sanskrit College in Benares, established in 1791 by the British East India Company. Ballantyne, an adherent of a [...]
09/27/10 12:02 PM
Piedmont Yoga Studio News September 2010: Auspicious Time to Recommit to Your Yoga Practice
Hanging in my office’s south-facing window is a prism, a flat plate of glass about four inches in diameter. For half the year, in the spring and summer, the Sun is high in the sky and the angle of its rays too steep to filter through the glass and into my room. Effectively out of [...]
09/1/10 5:10 PM
