The Yoga Blog

Boundless in the Post Express

DC Yoga Week article in the Washington Post Express:

http://www.expressnightout.com/content/2009/04/practice_makes_perfect_dc_yoga_week.php

master asana class. now practice at home or on the road with boundless students and teacher trainees!

Hi everyone!  Many of you have been asking for advice on how to practice when you can’t make it to a class. Kristen is going to periodically post excerpts from her Sunday 12:30 master asana class.  Below are some instructions for select asanas from a recent class, accompanied by photos of your fellow boundless students!  Each class will be archived when a new one is posted, so you can always go back and find the class you really liked or that pose you really want to work on, anytime or anywhere. (well, anywhere you can get to www.boundlessyoga.com, that is!)

emily in krounchasana--grounding in the legs and lifting through the chest. way to go emily!

backbending over the block

andrea quieting the mind in baddha konasana

adam holding steady in half-handstand

doris lengthening the waist in adho mukha svanasana

finding and refining the alignment of sirsasana

kristen enjoying a free-standing handstand

erin helps andrea find her balance in handstand

tainted love

Have you ever seen yourself, even your physical self? Have you ever seen your face? Only in a mirror. Suppose I break the mirror, could you still see your face? No, but would you have lost it then? No. What you see in a mirror is the image, not the original.

If you look for your true nature in a distorted mirror you will see a crooked face. Is your face really crooked? What is the mirror in our case? Our minds. To see our true Self we must have clean, clear, calm minds. Some people keep the mirror clean and realize that they are beautiful. Others do not dust it well. Some break it; some bend it.

— from How to Know Yourself

      H.H. Swami Satchindananda

keep on learnin…till I reach the higher ground

“The goal of mankind is knowledge … Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a person ‘knows’, should, in strict psychological language, be what she ‘discovers’ or ‘unveils’; what she ‘learns’ is really what she discovers by taking the cover off her own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Welcome to the New Boundless!

This yoga blog has been in the works for about a year now, and, well, here we are! Kristen, Chaka, Orly, and I will be weekly contributors.

We want to bring you the highest quality yoga experience possible, and we love teaching so much that we figured posting our thoughts on asana, pranayama, and my posts on the Boundless Perspective would be a good way to go about it!

If you’re part of the Boundless community and/or a regular visitor to this site, stay involved with us by posting your thoughts and questions to the things we’ve got to say here. The best yoga is the yoga that’s shared.

Namaste!