Jennifer and Joe
Our yoga friend Jennifer Jeanne Kim, married to our friend Joseph Byong Kim (both used to practice Ashtanga daily at YiY), is in need of community support due to a…
Read moreComing together to remember Dainuri
From the Kannon Do Zen Center, tonight Wednesday September 29 at 7:55pm: We will be holding an event to remember our sangha member Dainuri Rott who passed away at the…
Read moreFriday Discussion: “The Body Keeps the Score”
I think you will find this podcast interesting (hat tip Karen L): Money quote: “The core argument of the book is that traumatic experiences — everything from sexual assault and…
Read moreDainuri’s Remembrance and Celebration of Life
DAINURI PAUL ROTT November 1, 1948 – September 1, 2021 Join Family, Friends and Sangha on Zoom A Gathering of Remembrance and Celebration of Life Saturday, September 11, 20217 am…
Read moreFriday Discussion: Post Lineage Yoga
Interesting podcast with Theo Wildcroft: https://www.corageroux.com/episode33 Which addresses the following issues: A definition of post lineage yoga How post-lineage yoga works What a crisis of authority in our yoga communities…
Read moreFriday Discussion: Vaccines and Ahimsa
An article was published in the Yoga Journal last month (July 2021) entitled: Getting Vaxxed Was My Act of Ahimsa Protecting myself against COVID-19 was my way of showing love…
Read moreFriday Discussion: Ashtanga 2021 and Beyond
In June 2021, Adam Keen with Eddie Stern organized a panel of Ashtanga luminaries to discuss the future of Ashtanga yoga. You can see the video here: Among the topics…
Read moreFriday Discussion: our first breath
This Radiolab podcast about breath describes how prior to being born we are water creatures, with our lungs filled with liquid and our heart pumping without differentiating between oxygenated and…
Read morePranayama Workshop Video
The video of the Pranayama kumbhaka (breath retention) workshop from the June 11 2021 Workshop is here (36 minutes): Thanks for attending, and if you have further questions, please reach…
Read moreFriday Kumbhaka Pranayama Workshop
This Friday June 11, from 8:00 to 8:30am PT, we will have a pranayama workshop on kumbhaka (breath retention) on Zoom. During the last segment of our daily pranayama session,…
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