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Musings about current yoga topics and inspiration by HereNowYoga lead teachers and contributing students and friends.
Check out the original HereNowYoga blog for entries prior to 2015:
http://herenowyoga.blogspot.com/
"When we think of improving our health we typically begin with the thing we could go the longest without. Health care providers and advertisers promote diet and exercise to change your life, when in reality changing the way you breathe could be more immediately affective."
Blog post contributed by Monica Davis, HNYTT 2017
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As of November 12th, 2017, HereNowYoga officially graduated THREE sold out programs of the HereNowYoga 200 hour Alignment Based Teacher Training program. In an effort to continuously support our graduates and their individual paths, this blog will become a platform for them to share their personal research and experiences.
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Here are two reviews of the recently released book by Richard Wright, Why Buddhism is True:
"What Meditation Can Do For Us, and What it Can't" by Adam Gopnik
Here's a link to the Happiness Project Ted Talk we watch in the HNY 200 hour training and assign as hoemwork. Join trainees in journaling three gratitudes and a positive experience, as well as completing one Random Act of Kindness daily for the next month?
My teacher, mentor, and friend, Ryan Conrad, passed away on Feb 23rd, 2017 after a year long battle with pancreatic cancer. He died peacefully at 6:40am surrounded by his close family including his beloved wife Brooke and one year old son.
It was an honor to stand on his porch yesterday morning and sing out his soul with a group of other yoga practitioners and friends. We sang "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" as they carefully carried Ryan from his home. There were tears, rose petals, chimes, and a sea of hugs. I closed my eyes and felt my feet on the ground, focused on the familiar sensations and rhythms of my breath to help me stay present through the waves of emotion. I found the strength to look and truly see his body one last time, to say a final goodbye.
