Yoga with Esther …verbally.
trust ain’t easy
What is trust? There is no mention of trust in the sutras, perhaps because trust is a natural result of the other yamas and niyamas and self-observations. We can look at just the three we’ve encountered so far to demonstrate this. If everyone lived with ahimsa, it would be less likely that anyone would get [...]
puzzling out competence and asteya
Asteya is non-stealing. Seems like an easy yama to adhere to, when you think only in terms of legal theft. But what about all the many ways we deplete ourselves and others through actions probably not intended to be harmful. Many of us struggle to keep a balance between work, play, time for others, and [...]
be present, even when you’re not
How do we stay present when we don’t feel like the time we’re in is our own? When my alarm went off at 4:50am this morning, I couldn’t remember why I was being waked… I felt a little like my sleep, my dreaming was being robbed from me. So when I lumbered out to my [...]