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After practicing yoga for over thirty years down in the big smoke we felt called to move back into nature into an environment ideal to go deeper into the higher limbs of yoga practice. The Vedas suggest that when one comes to the middle of ones life (around 50) to change ones mode of life and spend more time on spiritual practice in nature. This mode of life is called vanaprashtha (forest dweller). This same mode of life is suggested in many yogic texts. We took that quite literally and live now on a mountaintop surrounded by ancient rainforest. Living in nature inspires our practice greatly, which we can then share when we come back into the cities to teach workshops or retreats.
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Modern Yogi interviews Monica
Our Greek friends at Modern Yogi interviewed Monica about Ashtanga as therapy and adapting the...
The Number One Thing We Can Do To Save The Biosphere?
When we think about acting responsibly towards the environment a lot of space is given to...
Inversions update
Recent years saw frequent bad publicity for inversions like shoulder-stand and headstand. Most of...
Earth Overshoot Day Brought Forward Two Days
Just in case you missed Earth Overshoot Day or in case somebody told you things are getting better...
Anneke Lucas’ story
Today I want to honor the woman who blew the whistle on sexual abuse in Ashtanga-culture, Anneke...
Why Didn’t Somebody Warn Me? A Pattabhi Jois #MeToo Story by Jubilee Cooke
Why do I keep posting about this subject? As far as I know only about half a dozen Ashtanga...
Questioning Authorities
One of the last times that I sat in K. Pattabhi Jois’ afternoon student meeting (called...
Ashtanga or only Ekanga Yoga?
When I first visited KP Jois house in late 1995 I did so with the desire to study classical...
Ashtanga’s Flawed Teacher Accreditation Process
Since Matthew Remski’s article and his interview with Karen Rain the Ashtanga world is trying to...
Mary Taylor’s response to Karen Rain’s interview
My respect and gratitude to Mary Taylor who is coming out in support of Karen Rain in her latest...
Why Did She Let it Happen?
After completing this article last night, after a long period of insomnia, I awoke again to a very...
Why I Left the Mysore Community in 1999 – My Statement
Now that the sexual misconduct of Pattabhi Jois has become common knowledge and while the victims...
My Initial Response to Karen Rain’s Interview About Sexual Abuse
I’m posting here with a heavy heart the full transcript of Matthew Remski’s interview with Karen...
Ashtanga Yoga Stories from Norman Blair
Following on from Matthew's article here Norman Blair's article that explores a few more of...
Yoga’s Culture of Sexual Abuse by Matthew Remski
Last night I had an hour-long phone conversation with the Canadian yoga researcher Matthew Remski...
The Five States of the Afflictions
The forms of suffering, or afflictions (kleshas), according to Patanjali, are ignorance, egotism,...
Mayurasana (peacock posture)
Yoga asana is often erroneously thought of as dealing only with flexibility. In fact increasing...
Uniting Opposites in Asana
More on what posture was designed to be. A few weeks back I posted my commentary to Patanjali’s...
On Civilization in Crisis and What Yoga Could Do
Here Gregor discusses what the yoga industry misses out on by reducing yoga to asana, to a mere...
A Brief Overview of the Eight Limbs
When BKS Iyengar was once asked what he thought of Ashtanga Yoga he said, "There is only Ashtanga...
Only if posture becomes effortless can it support higher yoga.
Here is more evidence that the current Yoga-is-gymnastics-with-a-meditative-twist fad does not...
What is Yoga Asana?
With yoga in they eyes of many modern practitioners reduced to posture (asana) here a timely...
Modern Yoga: What it is and What it could be
This interview was made by the Brussels-based documentary film maker, Jaimie Lee. She is currently...
What happens after liberation?
I received the following question: “I have read the sutras by Edwin Bryant and there is a concept...
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