Ti’s Blog
Testing
Did you ever go through a hard patch of life, or a challenging event? Of course you have (maybe you even chuckled out loud reading that question). A student recently reached out to me for advice. She was having a very hard time in life and was not showing up for...
Don’t Indulge the Fear
"Scary things seem to exist only in your imagination.” -Erich Schiffmann This sentence from Yoga: The Spirit and Practice of Moving Into Stillness, from the reading in class last week, brought up a lot of push-back from people, culminating in one woman after a...
Keep going! (aka Don’t STOP Practicing! Please!)
FINALLY making it back to writing! Ahhhh….. Thank the Divinity! I’ve written a number of times already about the importance of having a spiritual practice, especially The Next Level of Weirdness, and also The Purpose of Yoga, Premature Surrender and have alluded to...
Self-protection
February 16, 23, and 26, 2019 A few weeks ago a student confided in me after class that she gets all open and good feeling in class, and then she leaves and goes out into the world and basically gets slammed down by the world. That might resonate with some of you, and...
Unsolicited Advice
Did anyone ever give you advice you didn’t ask for? “Ha!” you say, maybe even out loud! It’s ridiculous to ask since OF COURSE that’s happened. Maybe you were just with family over Christmas and got more of it than you ever wanted! Some of us are blessed with certain...
The Purpose of Yoga
In class I’ve started reading (again…last time was around 2002) from Erich Schiffmann’s inspiring and profound book, Yoga: The Spirit and Practice of Moving Into Stillness. On the page just inside the cover, the very first two sentences of the book are “The purpose of...