Dear Yogis, Friends, and Family, Many blessings for the start of a new season. Autumn offers a beautiful opportunity for us to reflect on transitions and impermanence. This may feel especially relevant and challenging now given COVID-19 and all that is going on in the world. The closing of studios including Yang’s in Andover whereContinue reading “vitoyoga Autumnal Transitions Newsletter: New Classes and Videos”
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Reading: Do your work
“…the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception,…and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.” — The Bhagavad Gita 2.14
Reading from Class: School of Life by Pema Chödrön
“Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it. Nothing ever sums itself up in the way that we like to dream about. The off-center, in-between state is an ideal situation, a situation in which we don’t get caught and we can open ourContinue reading “Reading from Class: School of Life by Pema Chödrön”
Happy Endings?…or at least at peace with change
(I ended up on this tangent on impermanence while finally finishing my newsletter as I got some reminders lately, both personally and as a teacher. I did not find it appropriate to include right now, however, thought I would still share as someone may benefit.) Life and most everything we associate with our livesContinue reading “Happy Endings?…or at least at peace with change”
Readings from Class: Transitioning to Spring with Charles Dickens and Sarah Ban Breathnach
Week of 3/25: “It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” – Charles Dickens, Great Expectations The experience of teaching in the Back Bay and walking between classes this time of year always inspiresContinue reading “Readings from Class: Transitioning to Spring with Charles Dickens and Sarah Ban Breathnach”