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Is this crazy pose really that wild?

February 21, 2017 By Rupali Embry 2 Comments

I called this pose “Crazy Pose” long before I heard it had a name. Others (Seane Corn, Shiva Rea, etc.) call it “Wild Thing.” Both names hint at its unconventional nature. Wild Thing can be a deceptively challenging back-bending pose, for a number of reasons. First, some ways of entering it make it a whole […]

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Parshva bakasana the fun and easy way

January 31, 2017 By Rupali Embry Leave a Comment

Arm Balancing Vinyasa Short

I’m a big fan of arm balancing poses like parshva bakasana (side crow or crane) because they REALLY require that one-pointed focus that yoga is known to cultivate. For example, if there’s a wobble in parshva bakasana, it might not be about the pose itself but perhaps the mind wandered even just a tiny bit. […]

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Sankalpa: An awareness that guides your way home

January 3, 2017 By Rupali Embry Leave a Comment

Finding your way home with your sankalpa

In one of my previous posts, I talked about how an awareness of and the subsequent despair about our common human suffering (saṃvega) can cause the awakening of a desire (pasada) to pursue Dharma, the path to Truth. I believe that many of us teach yoga because this pasada has been awakened within us. It […]

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How to open up those %#&*! hamstrings

December 20, 2016 By Rupali Embry Leave a Comment

How to open up those hamstrings

As a teacher, you’ve undoubtedly heard a student ask more than once about how to open up those %#&*! hamstrings. Hamstrings are one of the most resistant muscle groups to lengthen, and even when it feels like they are beginning to open up, miss a few days of practice and twang! They snapped back as […]

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Saṃvega and the beginning of yoga

December 6, 2016 By Rupali Embry 3 Comments

Buddha and boddhisattvas

When you’re teaching dozens of classes each week, it’s easy to run out of inspiring themes to talk about at the beginning of class. Both Tania and I had enormously full schedules during the tine we were running our yoga studio. We were teaching private sessions outside of the studio as well as carrying a […]

Filed Under: inspiration, yoga blog Tagged With: buddha, class theme, four encounters, inspiration, pasada, samvega, sankalpa, yoga, yoga philosophy

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