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About Jessica Powers
Once upon a time Jessica was a full time yoga teacher. More recently she managed a knitting shop. Currently he's traded in retail for six months world travel with her partner. Her iPod is loaded with equal parts music and yoga lectures and is stored in her travel bag next to her travel knitting.
How interesting Jessica – I recently ran a yoga retreat at Mana called ‘A Glimpse of Freedom’ and the central theme was the understanding of just one yama and one niyama – aparigraha and santosha! 🙂
Sue, that is very interesting and funny! Your retreat sounds lovely! I know a lot of yoga practitioners work with ahimsa, and I did for a long while too, but these two aspect of yoga philosophy are showing so much benefit and practical application in my life I can hardly believe it.
interesting piece jessica; we’ve been in the process of moving, and though we’ve been through this many times before, each time sluffing off more and more stuff we don’t need, we continue to learn about our priorities –
sounds iike a great move, best of wishes for you both 😉
I just recently learned about this from my yoga mentor. I just completed my yoga teacher certification and we have been teaching free community classes. She said in the last month that we have been teaching she has noticed a shift in that we are not just teaching the asana’s anymore that she sees us teaching the other 7 limbs of yoga. That we are becoming really in tune with our students on a more spiritual and moving way. It was very neat to experience that. I love this post. It has so many helpful sources that I will have to check out. Thanks for all the information.