All Blog Posts
Pumpkin Curry Recipe – Guest Post by The Ashram Cook
This recipe, veggie sabzi (pumpkin curry), is a guest post by Riccardo Orlando, someone we noticed as soon as he started posting his homemade South...
Can Yoga Make You Less Flexible in Life?
I have come across many people over my years of teaching Ashtanga Yoga, who have either told me, or, otherwise it’s been noticeable, that they...
The Yoga Teacher-Student Relationship
Is it really such a big deal, after all? Can’t we be adults about it like any normal relationship, apply our regular ‘boundaries’ and operate...
Emotions in Asanas
It is assumed in the yoga process that we are trying to escape from our emotions. However, this may be the end result, that we...
Eight Limbs of Ashtanga Yoga
The eight limbs of Ashtanga yoga literally translated means 8 limbed yoga ashto = eight and anga = limb. This structure has its origins in...
Is Ashtanga Yoga Hard?
"Is Ashtanga Yoga Hard?" I am asked this question often and it's asked a most common internet search. Well, as always, it depends on what...
The Yoga Sutras on Practice
It is often assumed when we get into yoga that or development in practice is about increasing our ‘specialness’. Indeed, it’s hard to view it...
Escaping Thought in Yoga
The Bias of Language About Ourselves and The World Western thinking never questions the I that is thinking. Thought then springs from the confused root...
Quality Over Quantity in Practice – Less is More
The trouble is, from every angle in the modern-world these days we are given to believe that more is, indeed, always, more. We have been...
Lime Spiked Rice Noodles with Edamame – Mary Taylor Freeman Guest Post Recipe
Mary Taylor Freeman began studying yoga in 1971, soon after she came home from France with a grande diplôme from Julia Child’s cooking school, L’Ecole...
Ashtanga Yoga Myths
In a group talk with students the other day someone referred to a teacher as being strict. This got me wondering what that actually meant, and...
Yoga For Uncertainty
Yoga is learning how to ‘un-know’ Patanjali starts The Yoga Sutras ‘now starts yoga’. This, seemingly obvious statement is, perhaps, the most profound he makes. ...