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How Long to Get Your Arms Through in Garbha Pindasana

This article explains how tissue flexibility and friction affect threading arms through Garbha Pindasana safely and effectively
Articles Oct 25

Samadhi on a Tuesday

Samadhi lives in a particular part of the spiritual imagination — somewhere between mountaintop and miracle. You picture it arriving after years of austere practice, maybe in a cave, definitely in...
Articles Oct 25

Yogic Agency: The Practice on Purpose

There’s no secret to a transformative practice. Anyone selling one is selling something else. What there is: yogic agency.
Articles Oct 24

Overcome Cognitive Biases with Yoga

Discover how Ashtanga yoga acts as a powerful ally in confronting our deepest cognitive biases and illuminating a path towards clear perception.
Articles Oct 23

The Name Creates the Gap

Jordan wanted a handstand for two years. Every class. He watched other people float up, watched himself not. Something grinding and grasping in his chest, increasingly desperate. He got the...
Articles Oct 22

Vulnerability and Risk in Practice

Vulnerability is one of the most overused words in self-help. The underlying idea is real. The marketing version mostly isn’t.
Articles Oct 21

The Eight Limbs Aren’t a Ladder

There’s a version of yoga instruction that goes like this: master the ethics first, then the postures, then the breath, then the senses, then the concentration, then the meditation, then the...
Articles Oct 19

Stop Trying to Stop Thinking

Everyone who has tried to meditate has failed the same way. You sit down, close your eyes, and try to stop thinking. Then you think about trying to stop thinking. Then you think about how bad you...
Articles Oct 18

Complimentary Forms of Exercise for Ashtanga Yoga

In this video, Michael Joel Hall discusses the ongoing debate within the Ashtanga yoga community about incorporating complementary exercises, such…