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New fiction: Eddy takes a yoga class
Is it a cliche to be a little in love with your yoga teacher? If so, then Eddy didn’t mind admitting it. He liked Natalie and the way she walked the rows between their mats, the movement of her legs outlined in tight black yoga pants. Her thighs whispering as she passed Eddy’s mat, her [...]
A note about yoga and writing
I love myesore practice on Mondays. Even if I’m not entirely awake as I ride the metro downtown, I love being in the studio that early in the morning. And if I get there by 7am, the studio is sometimes all mine. At that hour, there’s a warm brown-yellow glow in the studio as the subdued [...]
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Driving through Andalusia
I spent Saturday morning putting the finishing touches on the test I had to write to complete my meditation training. The dining room table is still covered in books, notebooks and highlighters. While writing out the answers (longhand, gadzooks!), I had an unexpected memory come back from my travels in Spain. A truly beautiful memory [...]
Adriana vs. backbending
For as long as I’ve been blogging, I’ve been writing about my triumphs and frustrations with yoga. And for as long as I’ve been practicing yoga, my most persistent obstacle has been backbending. Left in a backbend for too long, my body tends to unpack feelings of fear, panic and nausea. Backbending has made my heart [...]
Writing yogis. Yogi writers.
With another session of our yoga and writing workshop coming up this September 26, I’ve been answering a lot of questions about the connection between these two activities. “Um, how can you do yoga and write at the same time?” The conversation that follows usually touches on liberating expression by first silencing the ego and [...]
What kind of yoga teacher are you?
A student of mine recently asked, “Do you find that yoga has increased your psychic power?” My first reaction (spoken quietly, in my head) was, “Wow. You are asking the wrong person.” My out-loud response was, “If by ‘psychic power’, you mean ‘intuition’, then yes.” Since completing yoga teacher training last year, I’ve been trying [...]
Writing the body – Yoga + writing workshop
This past Saturday, I had the pleasure of teaching a yoga and writing workshop with Roseanne Harvey. It was our first time presenting this exciting new workshop, and it could not have gone better. For our trial run, we had 12 students – many of whom were beloved friends and other familiar faces. We scheduled three [...]
Becoming a better yoga teacher
I’ve been teaching an Introduction to Yoga enrollment class at AYM for the last 5 weeks – we wrap up next Saturday. Big news, right? The honour of being asked to teach at the school that trained me. The immense confidence being placed in me by the people I respect most… You can understand why [...]
My life in 12 photos, One
I observe a lot. I take in everything – like someone who’s afraid that she won’t remember anything if she goes blind tomorrow. I can sometimes render what I see in words, but some moments – or feelings – cannot be encapsulated in a few short sentences. So I’ve given myself a new challenge – [...]
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