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1000 Bikram Yoga Classes
Today I hit a milestone – 1000 Bikram yoga classes. The date corresponded with completing exactly four years of practice, an average of 250 classes per year. I wasn’t counting until one day the owner Jill told me I was … Continue reading
Tough Yoga
The line between success and failure can be fine, but once we trip over it, we cannot always raise ourselves to the other side. I knew an evening class would be grueling, but I thought it doable. I had been … Continue reading
Front Row Challenge
Twice a year, March and November, Bikram Yoga Boston holds a thirty day challenge – thirty classes in thirty days – to raise money for Dana Farber Cancer Center and to entice people to do more yoga. Although the ultimate … Continue reading
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Tagged 30 day challenge, Bikram yoga, Bikram Yoga Boston, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, yoga
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Perfect Yoga
There is no such thing as perfect yoga; there is always room for improvement in any posture. All yoga is perfect; each pose reflects our mind and body at its moment of execution. These two dichotomies ripple through my mind … Continue reading
Winter Storm Warning – Make Mine a Double
The first wintry gusts are sweeping down my street. The weatherman’s frenzied exclamations prompted most businesses to close by noon today. The MBTA will stop running at 3:30 pm. The governor has declared a state of emergency; the National Guard … Continue reading
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Tagged Algiers Cafe, Bikram, Harvard Book Store, National Guard, non-essential employees, Quiet, Susan Cain, winter storm warning, yoga
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Winter Yoga
On clear, cold winter mornings the pre-dawn air is thin, the paving salts have turned the blacktop silver grey. I pedal deliberately, the only bicycle amid few automobiles. I coast over every bridge and through every turn, dangling my right … Continue reading
Deep Yoga
If there is one downside to all the travel during my past year, it is the frequent interruption to my daily yoga practice. Though I may stretch and strike some poses in Haiti or Kalamazoo, the full Bikram experience requires … Continue reading
Fire Burning Within
Bikram yoga is designed to upset our thermal regulation. When we spend ninety minutes in a 110 degree room, we invert our customary condition of internal body temperature. The outside world is actually hotter than our internal temperature. This allows … Continue reading
Hollow Reed Swaying in a Swamp
Every so often I remind myself that I started this blog in response to my experience in yoga, yet I have not posted a piece about yoga in months. Yes, I still go to class every day when I am … Continue reading
A Tale of Two Babies To-Be
Tomo and Brad are having a baby. That is the correct terminology among liberal, upper middle class couples in the United States, where having a baby is a scrupulously planned, much anticipated, and widely shared event. Tomo and Brad are … Continue reading
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