July
2003
Welcome to our first issue of Satya Quarterly
sanskrit meaning "Truth and Honesty."
Our Quarterly Newsletter features the reflections of the San
Francisco Bay Area Community. We
hope Satya will provide you with tools to learn &
grow your yoga practice and to have a sense of being a part
of a larger community committed to helping one another.
We welcome you to forward Satya to friends who are interested
in this 5000-year-old Yoga practice. As we all know, yoga can
transform a bad day into a much brighter one. Subscriptions
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Kate
Vogt
Student since 1998
My yoga mat is like a magic carpet that takes me to unexpected
places. It is a typical mat: mass produced, green in color, sticky
surface, an almost perfect rectangle (the cut of my mat is crooked).
Yet, when I am on this seemingly ordinary mat, I experience a
new, and often surprising, physical, emotional and/or spiritual
insight. The lesson may range from a small adjustment in an asana
that I have been working on for years to heightened awareness
of infinite connections in life. For example, I continually gain
understanding about my yoga practice being part of the ageless
flow of inhales and exhales with each breath linking those who
have gone before, to those here now, to those yet to come. Regardless
of when and where I stretch out the mat, a journey awaits.
YOGASTUDIO Prana 2/03
Interested in sharing your insights?
Please send to info@yogamotionstudio.com,
100 words or less, please include name, phone, & email. We look
forward to hearing from you. Thank you!
John
Berlinsky, Senior Ashtanga Teacher
As yoga students, we often ask ourselves how we can become "better"
in our practice. We look for ways to advance, achieve a more difficult
pose, do something we've never done before. We begin to view practice
as a linear progression - from beginner to intermediate to advanced.
These thoughts are natural for all of us who practice yoga. What
we don't realize, however, is that they can become dangerous and
often leads to a sense of competition and expectations that has
little to do with our ability and level of experience. How to
overcome such thoughts and desires? An idea that comes from Patanjali's
Yoga Sutras is that of Abhyasa (ah-bee-yah-sah). Abhyasa means
a consistent point of focus. It is an exercise in awareness -
awareness of our body, breath and mind acting as one unified experience
- originating from a single point of focus within practice. Instead
of the mind attempting to "do" many things at once -
breathe, adjust, stretch ....Abhyasa leads to a point of stillness
within practice - a quieting of the mind and a sense of patience,
balance and connectedness.
YOGASTUDIO Prana 3/03
more yoga articles....
 Asanas
608 by Dharma Mittra
In 1974, the legendary "teacher of teachers" yogi Dharma
Mittra photographed himself in 908 yoga postures. He printed each
photo as an 8 x 10 and pasted them together to form a poster,
creating the Ultimate Yoga Chart as a gift for his teacher, Swami
Kailashananda. Asanas collects 608 of those black-and-white photographs,
each accompanied by the English name of the pose and the Sanskrit
names. A great gift!
 Yoga
the Iyengar Way
by Silva Mira & Shyam Mehta
Based
on the teachings of B.K.S. Iyengar. The photos illustrating the
poses are excellent. The descriptions have the clarity and precision
that one expects from an Iyengar instructor. This book contains
a great deal of information yet is not overwhelming as with other
books. A must for students of all yoga styles.
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