Blueprint for a Better Back

In my Beginners Yoga class at Yogasana center this morning I had worked them pretty hard in a forward bending standing pose and I wanted to give them a break. I asked them to bring their legs together and stand in a simple Mountain Pose. In a room of fifteen people, almost all of them…

At the beginning of AT school I was warned that I might need more quiet time and more sleep in the first few weeks. This wasn’t a surprise to me. I’ve found leaving time for unconscious processing to be essential in my yoga practice as well. I’ve always been very wary of the potential for…

My Alexander Technique teacher training began at a run today. After a round of introductions, we grouped up and went straight to work. There was the main teacher, Brooke, and an assistant teacher, Ina, working with us. While the teachers laid hands on two of the groups, the third lay on the floor with their…

Normally the mind gets attached by seeing or hearing something. It is mainly through the eyes and ears that the mind goes out and gathers things to satisfy its desires. Before the mind is attracted to something it sees or hears, you should have discrimination to see whether that object is good for you or not. The…

From “Freedom from the Known” by J. Krishnamurti: Attention is not the same as concentration. Concentration is exclusion; attention, which is total awareness, excludes nothing. It seems to me that most of us are not aware, not only of what we are talking about but of our environment, the colours around us, the people, the…