How Big Is The Container?
Recently, I saw Frank Stella’s lifetime retrospective at the Whitney and was struck by several of the wonderful quotes that explain his...
Why Practice Yoga with Wall Ropes?
Many of us share this story: We attend a yoga class or two, return with increasing regularity, and soon make room in our lives for our...
Featured class: Slings & Ropes w/ Jane DoCampo
YU Featured class: Slings & Ropes class w/ Jane DoCampo When: Saturdays at 3:30p What's it about: Spice up your practice by introducing...
The Goal Of Spiritual Practice by Jeremy Lehrer
I was feeling unhappy the other day,walking home,and thinking about a difficult situation I’d had with a friend. We’d argued about...
A Body of Truth by Witold Fitz-Simon
Yoga practice is filled with dualities, with polar limits. We start as beginners and advance towards mastery. Some of us have pelvises...
The Opposite of Vinyasa by Witold Fitz-Simon
If vinyasa is the orderly placing of one pose after another in a specific sequence, what could the opposite of vinyasa be? In his article...
B. K. S. Iyengar and Vinyasa Yoga by Witold Fitz-Simon
One thing yogis with some experience of different styles can say for certain is that Iyengar Yoga is most definitely not vinyasa. These...
The Horseshoe Crab Dilemma by Jeremy Lehrer
In a class, one of my teachers spoke about taking his daughter to the New Jersey shore. During a certain time of year, there would be...
Principles of Flow: Find and Move from Your Core Channel By Witold Fitz-Simon
Think of the word “core” not in its sense of abs and lower back, but in its sense of a deep axis of the body, like an apple core. That...
Principles of Flow: Move with Awareness By Witold Fitz-Simon
One of the most amazing things about the human mind-body is the way it is able to negotiate so much of our daily lives for us without us...
