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Do too many perfect yoga images do yoga a dis-service?

February 3, 2013 by Kara-Leah Grant 5 Comments

By Kara-Leah Grant, Musings from the Mat Check out that image to your right. It's beautiful. A beautiful woman in a beautiful setting doing a beautiful posture. I love to look at images like that. But it's not the kind of image I've chosen for the cover of my book Forty Days of Yoga. I've chosen an image of me sitting on a chair - not even a beautiful chair - just a nondescript chair on a white background. I'm wearing jeans and a t-shirt. I'm not doing a recognisable yoga … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Musings from the Mat Tagged With: book, commit, forty days of yoga, home practice

Leaving behind window shopping for the soul & committing to a tradition

September 25, 2012 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

By guest author Carmen Howell of The Sadhana Studio The title for this article came from a blog, where the writer shared her "tempest of emotions, regarding the question of whether to take and commit to a teacher'? The advice she received was that window shopping for ceremonies, teachers and/or traditions prevents a situation where one can go deeply into any one tradition, and will only result in a shallow experience and knowledge of a topic. In short, window shopping can be delusional … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Going to Class Tagged With: Carmen Howell, commit, guru, India, kriya yoga, soul, teacher, the Sadhana studio, The Yoga Lunchbox, tradition, Wanaka, window shopping, yoga

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