ASHTANGA: PARAMPARA – KAREN KELLEY

ASHTANGA: PARAMPARA – KAREN KELLEY

Karen, what was your life before finding yoga? ​ Life before yoga involved the arts — drawing, drawing, and more drawing, all through childhood and high school, visual art as an undergraduate (sculpture, specifically) and creative writing (poetry) in graduate...
First rule of Ashtanga Yoga

First rule of Ashtanga Yoga

You know how there’s the first rule of Fight Club? There’s also a first rule of Ashtanga yoga. No, it’s not “Don’t talk about Ashtanga yoga.” It’s “Ashtanga is a daily practice.” Yeah, that sounds daunting. Who in the world would start off a yoga practice with a...
Keeping the Fire Burning

Keeping the Fire Burning

Yoga in the form of action has three parts: training and purifying the senses (tapas), self-study in the context of teachings (svadhyaya), and 3) devotion and letting go into the creative source from which we emerged (ishvara pranidhana). – Yoga Sutras 2.1 I want to...