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Opposing forces can create a perfect balance

By: allison August 18, 2015August 16, 2020

Blog Post, UncategorizedAsana, balance, Patanjali, Patanjali Yoga Sutra, Religion and Spirituality, stability, vinyasa flow, yoga inspiration, yoga philosophy

This week I was cleaning out some papers and I stumbled across a contract that I had my daughter sign a month ago when she got her cell phone. It had a list of the rules and you could imagine what those are but one of the rules of the contract was to never…

Unattach and Be Free

By: allison October 17, 2014August 16, 2020

Blog Post, UncategorizedAsana, Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, non-attachment, Patanjali Yoga Sutra, Philosophy, Religion and Spirituality, vinyasa flow

Last week, we had our town vote. The next morning, as I was removing some of the posters that had been hung up around town, I began to feel lighter. With that behind me, I started to think about my message for the week and it became very clear to me. Non-Attachment. See, the…

The 4 KEYS to Happiness

By: allison October 30, 2013August 16, 2020

Blog Post, UncategorizedPatanjali, Patanjali Yoga Sutra, Rāja yoga, Sutra, vinyasa, Yoga

Last week my inspiration came from The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali which is the text of Raja Yoga (Ancient Mental Science). Patanjali is considered the ‘Father of Yoga” and even though the Sutras (the word Sutra means thread), were written somewhere between 5000 B.C. and 300 A.D., these short two or three sentence “threads” of advice are applicable even today. My…