For the past few years I have been exploring yoga on a deeper level, becoming certified to teach and deepening my own practice, mainly ashtanga and more recently balancing the yang of ashtanga with a nurturing yin practice. My teachers for ashtanga have been based out the Downwarddog Studio in Toronto and I feel fortunate to have been so close …
Last winter I spent the time living in Tulum, Mexico. I lived on the beach, in a tent snuggled in the mangroves next to the jungle. I would wake up somewhere between 5 and 5:30 in the morning to sit on the beach and watch the sunrise. Watching the sunrise, having your eyes filled with the first warm light of …
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The six syllables, om mani padme hum, mean that in dependence on the practice of a path which is an indivisible union of method and wisdom, you can transform your impure body, speech, and mind into the pure exalted body, speech, and mind of a Buddha” ~14th Dalai Lama~om mani padme hum
