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Just received my new yoga book from Amazon! 

Travis was enthralled with this book last night! We took turns reading out of the book, and exploring the activated muscles in our favorite poses. 

The anatomy workshops I have attended in the past few months have familiarized me with many of the muscle names, but the complexity of their interactions, and the deeper investigation of their structures is baffling!

As the cover demonstrates, the book encourages you to try each pose and feel these unique muscular adjustments for yourself to experience a new level of muscle control.

It also delves into the biomechanics of stretching, the bandhas, and some restorative poses. Delightful! I recommend it to anyone, beginner to experienced yogi: there is some amazing information about our bodies.

Command your ilio-psoas and you can conquer the world...

Its just a matter of taming the bull

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"of all the losses rupturing the human soul today, this alienation [disconnection from the body] may be the most alarming because it separates  us from the very roots of existence. with jobs that are degrading, routines that are automatic, and environments that annihilate our senses, we lose the joy that arises from dynamic connection with the only living presence we are guaranteed to have for the whole of our lives: our body"


Eastern Body Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self {link}

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Coming home to my mat
lighting my tiny tea lights
rearranging crystals
taking that deep in breath

something about the ashtanga series
freeing the mind
focusing the breath

opens the back of my body

for days following, every breath
every erect spine
the roll of my shoulders

takes me back to that magical moment

the deep in breath
the flowing out breath
raising the arms
folding the body.