Below is a little piece, inspired by misperception.
After developing it, one of the 196 Yoga Sutras came to mind.

Yoga Sutra 1.8

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There is an interesting article about yoga on the cover page of today’s Wall Street Journal.

If you’d like to read Yoga Bears: It’s No Stretch to Say Traders Are Taking Deep Breaths, visit their site.

Because I love Jal Neti and recently bought a new ceramic neti pot, I’ve decided to rerun a post from a few months back.
Please enjoy reading about this wonderful shat karma.

Here I am, setting up to do jal neti in Chamrajanagar, Karnataka, India.

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Weeks ago, I resolved to elaborate on my experiments with Macrobiotics. First, I apologize for not doing so sooner.
Allow me to preface this entry by stating:
Macrobiotics certainly did not fail me. I most likely failed to accurately pursue macrobiotics. It might have been more beneficial had I more thoroughly researched this diet/lifestyle beforehand, instead of during my investigation.

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Here is something a friend of mine recently passed along. I thought I’d share it.

Clarity Statements

1. These are the ways my childhood affected me.

2. These are the problems that I cause myself.

3. This is how I work on myself.

4. This is who I am.

5. This is what I want to add to my life.

Each statement is an essential building block to the one following it.

I am happy to announce the opening of my photography exhibit at Stain in Brooklyn! The show, which features 41 images from India, officially opened last night. The opening party will be this Thursday, July 10th, starting at 7pm! Stay after 9 and here live jazz music by The Tom Blatt Project. See below for directions.

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If you’re in the United States, I hope you’ve had an enjoyable long weekend. I spent a bit of time on the North Fork of Long Island with my family, which was lovely.

Before leaving the city on Friday, I taught a morning class at East Yoga in Alphabet City. En route there on the Q train, I came across an article in the New York Times Metro section that was particularly moving… or maybe it’s just particularly New York.
You can read A New York Slice of America, July 3: 128 Riders United by clicking the title.

“Without firm foundations a house cannot stand. Without the practice of the principles of yama and niyama (social and self discipline), which lay down firm foundations for building character, there cannot be an integrated personality. Practice of asanas without the backing of yama and niyama is mere acrobatics.”
- B.K.S. Iyengar, the 1st Requisites of Yogasanas, Light on Yoga

Finding balance in sari. Tamil Nadu, December 2007

While we were out for a drive the other day, my mother mentioned that her physical therapist friend has been treating a rising number of patients with yoga related injuries. This brought to mind something a very wise teacher of mine once said. It was something along the lines of, “Yoga has and can never hurt me. I have only hurt myself by misusing (misunderstanding) yoga.”

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