The Shala - Astanga Yoga Stuart

06/28/2022

The social creative with a lexicon of emergence. Fractals. Organizing as time travel. How we change — and change together.

04/15/2022

A reader wonders what governments would look like if they made vulnerable people, not big businesses, the priority.

01/17/2022

Vaccines are a way of practicing kindness to those health care workers who understand how COVID effects them and so many people. Please if you haven’t gotten the vaccine, get it NOW🙏🙏🙏

Alan Hawes hopes his photos of health care workers and COVID patients will show the toll of this pandemic — and persuade the unvaccinated to get their COVID shots.

01/14/2022

It was such a very sad and tragic day here. I remember feeling so helpless. 😰

The date also marked the first deaths on the Metrorail system after a train derailed.

01/10/2022

The Washington Post has compiled the first database of slaveholding members of Congress by examining thousands of pages of census records and historical documents.

01/08/2022

Soundtrack from the 1967, James Clavell film "To Sir, with Love" with Sidney Poitier, Judy Geeson, Christian Roberts, Suzy Kendall, Lulu, Ann Bell, Geoffrey ...

07/07/2021

Absolutely beautiful!!!!

This summer, the Met unveils a new documentary from filmmaker Susan Froemke. Profiling the company's Music Director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the film follows the maestro from ten-year-old budding conductor to the pinnacle of the opera world.

03/13/2020

The schedule workshop with Angelique Santos for Saturday 14 March been cancelled. Angelique has a slight cold and we think it healthiest for all to cancel. Be well! Look forward to seeing you at the Shala soon. Self practice tomorrow!

02/13/2020

We look forward to welcoming Angelique Sandas at the Shala Saturday, Match 14 for Mysore and Back Bending workshop. Please contact Danielle to reserve your space.

05/02/2019

Thank you Amanda. A beautiful way to practice yoga.

Amanda is describing below The Mysore Experience. Are you ready to step into this type of relationship with your practice? Stay tuned for our May 1st special offer.

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Those are my feet on my trusty yoga mat. I’ll let you in on a little secret. Most of the time, I like to be left alone in my yoga practice. Don’t get me wrong, I love assists. But, I just really enjoy practicing independently and it makes no difference to me whether I get assisted by the teacher or not. I know it may sound crazy to some because assists are a key feature to the Mysore method. But sometimes there are days when I don’t even want to talk. I just want to get absorbed in my breath and my practice. Yes, sometimes I need help from the teacher or sometimes I really want to be touched or assisted. On those days I put my consent card on yes. On the days I want to be left alone, I put it on no. But even when it’s on no, however, I still feel that I’m being adjusted by the teacher. Assists (or “supports” as Jami k lia33 calls them) aren’t limited to just physical touch. For example, the teacher is still watching me while I practice. Sometimes, Greg will simply stand by my mat so I can just feel his presence and benefit from his energy. That’s an adjustment! Absorbing the energy in the Mysore room from my fellow students. That’s an adjustment. Just hearing the teacher work with another student or hearing them count a student through a pose. That’s an adjustment. Doing the opening mantra with the class reminds me of dedication and devotion to the practice. That adjusts me. But it adjusts me on the inside. In the beginning the practice seems to exist only on the outside. The external world. External needs, external validation from the teacher. But then there is a shift and the practice brings us into the internal. The practice is inside of me. My breath is inside of me. Soon, our inner teacher that lives within us all, begins to awaken and speak to us. Everything I need is already inside of me because the universe dwells within me as me.