Adam’s Musings

Ashtanga Yoga Moon Days

Even as a relative beginner, you get to know about Ashtanga yoga moon days pretty early on. The idea of taking a day off or...
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Benefits of Ritual and Routine in Ashtanga

Perhaps, the most helpful aspect of the way Ashtanga yoga is set up is down to the sense of routine or ritual it adds to...
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Book Review – Yoga and Ayurveda

Book Review Yoga and Ayurveda (David Frawley, lotus press 1999) Ayurveda is essential for any serious yoga student. For, Yoga is the science of Knowledge,...
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Yoga: Tradition or Freedom?

[Nb: picture shows a non traditional formulation of Ardha badha panda paschimatanasana. In this case I am working the thoracic area rather than pulling forward...
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What We Can Learn From Reading The Ancient Greeks

  Feelings + Reasoning = Happiness   We’ve heard of Socrates, maybe, Plato and Aristotle, but we’re used to thinking of all this as not...
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How To Avoid The Pitfalls of Guru Worship

The fact that we hurt each other is hardly surprising. That we are able to turn a blind eye to each other’s suffering, neither. Truly,...
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Yoga Like Martial Arts

Yoga should've been considered more like a martial art. It's a huge disservice that it hasn't been approached this way; perhaps, minus, avoiding the ostensible...
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Don’t Let Yoga Ruin Your Life

When you first get into yoga it's like the first flushes of a new relationship. Everything is perfect with it, it's what you've always been...
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Don’t Sweat The Big Stuff

It's been clear to me for quite a while that if I want to sell a workshop, the topics on the flyer are jump-thru/back or...
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