The Body
Teach Me, Teacher(s)!
Classically, the yoga practice (physical asana yoga as well as the meditation and other practices) were passed down from a master to a student. Here in the West, yoga has come to m…
Pathfinding
Contributed by: Julie Peters
About Pathfinding
Yoga and mindfulness can be tools to living a richer, more meaningful life. Explore with Julie to discover pathways to a radiant heart, a clear mind, and a connected spirit.
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Living in the World
Why You Should Resolve Not To Make Any New Year’s Resolutions
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Perspectives
Open Your Heart to the Truth. NO, WAIT, SHUT THE WINDOW!
The truth will set you free! So they say. Lately I’ve been wondering—set you free from what, exactly? Satya, or truthfulness, is one of Patanjali’s five Yamas, or precepts for li…
In Praise of the Giggles
Have you ever had a giggle fit?I used to get them all the time when I was a kid—something would set me off and I would just lose it for minutes—the people around me would have stop…
Spiritual Practices
The Most Important Yogic Tool You Have: The Bullshit Detector
Yoga has this wonderful quality of opening our minds and bodies at the same time. We get more physically flexible, and more mentally and emotionally so as well.We flow like water, …
You are Nobody. Thank Goodness.
“I always wanted to be somebody. Now I realize I should have been more specific.” ~Lily Tomlin A friend of mine recently shared with me something he learned from the philosopher O…
Creative Flow: How Yoga Can Spark Your Creativity
If you didn’t know me as a person, and all you knew about me was that I was a yoga teacher and a poet, you would probably think I was pretty boring. You’d think of poems filled wit…
Spiritual Practices
Zen and the Art of Not Tearing Your Hair Out
If you had a time machine, would you speed forward into the future or relive the past?Someone asked me this once in a car on a road trip, and while my car-mates reminisced about ti…
The Body
How to Occupy Raging Bulls: The Way of the Tao
I’m going to tell you a story.One day, there was a raging bull in the middle of the main street of a small village. None of the villagers could get past. Everyone was upset about t…
About the Author
Julie Peters (MA, E-RYT, YACEP) has been practicing yoga and meditation for 25 years and ran Ocean and Crow Yoga Studio in Vancouver, BC, for more than a decade. She has written two books: Secrets of the Eternal Moon Phase...