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”
Category Archives: Readings
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”
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”
Reading: Yogabody
“I think there is more than the body, but the body is all you can get your hands on.” — Ida Rolf The study of anatomy is a necessity to teaching yoga skillfully. Stepping up to teach the anatomy section of my current Teacher training with Larisa, has been an intimidating and important learning andContinue reading “Reading: Yogabody”
Reading: Emotional Resilience
“Joseph Goldstein: This thought which has arisen, is it helpful? Is it serving me or others in some way or is it not? Is it just playing out perhaps old conditions of fear or judgment or things that are not very helpful for ourselves or others? Mindfulness really helps us both see and discern theContinue reading “Reading: Emotional Resilience”