Remembering Your Way to Wellness and Peace
The following short article is from my Winter Yoga Class annoncement. It is, as are so many of my posts, a simple invitation to remember to rmemeber our practice of self care on the way to wellness and peace. Our practice is what has the power to transform, moment by moment our days and our live. The practices of Yoga and meditation are remarkable in how they can change the experience in our minds and body. These changes can be almost immediate and at times quite significantly the relieve distressing responses to things happening in our...
read moreHeart Centered Yoga and Meditation in 2012
This post is from my 2012 New Year’s message to my students. Dear Student, I hope you are well and enjoying your holiday season. I am always aware that without you I would not have the opportunity to do what I so enjoy doing. Thank you for your enthusiasm and support. This has been a year of change for me and my teaching practice. Because of your interest I have expanded my Posture and Yoga Therapy practice to include the Jewish Community Center in Woodbridge in addition to my longstanding classes there and my presence in Guilford...
read moreLearn to Breathe While Practicing Yoga in Guilford, CT
Welcome to this blog. I am excited to use this tool to support your inquiry and exploration of yoga, meditation and the healing arts as your progress along the path of yoga, wellness and growth. So with this resolve and my strong intention to serve you, I begin this website and blog. I hope find it informative and useful toward your aspirations. Yogis in the past were explorers of the inner and outer worlds of experience and, in many ways, they worked without a safety net. With deep gratitude and appreciation to our past teachers, we get to...
read moreExploring Comfort and Joy at the “Edge” in Yoga and Meditation
“Your skill in yoga has little to do with your degree of flexibility or where your edges happen to be. Rather, it is a function of how sensitively you play your edges, no matter where they are….The practice becomes one of being relaxed and willing at your deeper edges; and this isn’t necessarily easy.” Erich Schiffman The holiday season here in the New Haven and Connecticut Shoreline areas is a challenging time for anyone seeking to keep some time for their practice of Yoga and meditation. At times our practices wanes to the...
read moreLetting Go of Limits, How Posture Therapy Works
It is common for people to come to my classes or consult with me privately about a physical pain or diagnosis they may have received. Usually it is validated by X-rays, MRI’s and other compelling diagnostic evidence. In the absence of a true medical disease, I have often found over the years that these problems are often the effect of musculoskeletal imbalance and resulting postural misalignment. Posture oriented therapists such as me have a phrase for this we borrow from the therapist and author of “Pain Free”, Pete...
read moreLetting go of the Struggle, Reconnecting with Our Instincts in Yoga and our Lives
My beloved child, break your heart no longer. Each time you judge yourself, you break your own heart. You stop feeding on the love, which is the wellspring of your vitality. The time has come. Your time. To live. To celebrate, and to see the goodness that you are… Do not fight the dark. Just turn on the light. Let go, and breathe into the goodness that you are. By Swami Kripalu: Most people are interested in beginning Yoga as a solution to physical issue or to achieve goals such as regaining flexibility, losing weight, healing injury or...
read moreA Pause to Refresh
“Oftentimes, one strips oneself of passion[meditation} In order to see the Secret of Life; Oftentimes, one regards life with passion, In order to see its manifest results. These two (the Secret and its manifestations) Are (in their nature) the same; They are given different names When they become manifest. They may both be called the Cosmic Mystery: Reaching from the Mystery into the Deeper Mystery Is the Gate to the Secret of All Life. From the “Tao te Ching” by Lao Tzu Don’t just do something, sit...
read moreSome Reflections on the “Tao” on a Snowy October!?! Morning in Branford
This is an excerpt from my New Year’s letter to my Yoga students from 2009. The Tao te Ching, written over 2500 years ago by the sage Lao Tzu, has long been an inspiration and a guide of sorts to me in my practice, teaching and therapy work. “…Yogis believe that all are benefitted when we as individuals work to deepen our relationship with the “I” that is ”We”; reconnecting to that higher part of us that realizes our essential oneness with each other. In this spirit I offer you a heartfelt “Namaste”; I...
read moreIt Takes a Virtual Village…
to help us become more flexible and fit, to relieve stress and relax, and to stay actively engaged with things that challenge us and ask we move toward positive change. So now I am being drawn into the new world of social media in a way I hope will be of service and support to all those interested in the practices of Yoga, meditation and the wellness and healing arts. To create a virtual village of sorts I have added a this blog, a Facebook page for Creative Edge Yoga, LLC, an RSS feed for new content, a new email look and feel as well...
read moreOvercoming Limits at the “Edge” in Yoga
“Balance arises when we enter with mercy and awareness areas that have been withdrawn from in fear and anger. Healing is a rehabilitation of the deserted areas of the mind/body, a living of our whole life.” Stephen Levine “Your skill in yoga has little to do with your degree of flexibility or where your edges happen to be. Rather, it is a function of how sensitively you play your edges, no matter where they are….The practice becomes one of be relaxed and willing at your deeper edges; and this isn’t necessarily easy.”...
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