By Vito Politano from the International Yoga Blog March 22, 2019 Spring is here and reminds us that we can start anew with less residue in each moment. Life online and off is plagued with distractions and opportunities for us to feel less-than-worthy. Yoga and metta meditation practices are powerful tools that have helped meContinue reading “Spring Metta: Renew Your Connection To Self”
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Highlights from my Fall 2018 Retreat to the Isle of Crete
In September, I lead my first yoga retreat on the Isle of Crete with International Yoga. It was an amazing trip with exceptional people and deep practice in a stunningly beautiful setting. It was also my first time in Greece, and I loved it – the warm hospitality, landscape, and Italian structural influences offered meContinue reading “Highlights from my Fall 2018 Retreat to the Isle of Crete”
Teacher Spotlight from The Yoga Loft of Marblehead
What was your first yoga experience? After completing physical therapy for a neck strain, the physical therapist recommended yoga or Pilates to continue supporting my healing. After researching and visiting some yoga studios, I took a beginners class at Baptiste in Cambridge. I felt like a foreigner navigating a new climate, language and culture. IContinue reading “Teacher Spotlight from The Yoga Loft of Marblehead”
Reading: Self-discovery
“Yoga is meant to give us a way to discover or rediscover ourselves. It teaches us how to find the great margin of maximum capacity that we have inside us so that we are able to expose ourselves to ourselves and find out what we really are.” — Geeta S. Iyengar
Reading: Towards Full Acceptance of Self
“‘Normality,’ says Howe, ‘is the paradise of escapologists, for it is a fixation concept, pure and simple.’ ‘It is better, if we can,’ he asserts, ‘to stand alone and to feel quite normal about our abnormality, doing nothing whatever about it, except what needs to be done in order to be oneself.’ –Henry Miller FromContinue reading “Reading: Towards Full Acceptance of Self”
Playlist Most Requested: Lijadu Sisters
Never understood dancing in yoga classes, until now. Thanks to The Dinner Party Download.
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: Towards Full Acceptance
“The art of living is based on rhythm — on give and take, ebb and flow, light and dark, life and death. By acceptance of all aspects of life, good and bad, right and wrong, yours and mine, the static, defensive life, which is what most people are cursed with, is converted into a dance, ‘the dance of life,’ metamorphosis.Continue reading “Reading: Towards Full Acceptance”
Spring Renewal – All Possibilities
“It’s never too late to completely change your entire life. To become a better person. To become an asset to this world. To be of service to humanity. To transcend your Earthly predicament with love, compassion and humility. Never believe it is too late to rise to a higher vision. Each day is a fresh, beautiful opportunity to attainContinue reading “Spring Renewal – All Possibilities”
Events: Upcoming Workshops @ On The Mat
Very excited to be back at On the Mat Yoga Studio in Concord for two upcoming workshops. I’ll be returning for my 4th Deep Stretch Workshop there on Saturday March 25th, and teaching a Strength and Structure workshop on Saturday April 8th, both 2-4p. Click for details and registration