Darcy Lyon

Lessons Learned from Couchasana

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A couple of weeks ago, I got sick.  I mean, I REALLY got sick.  I don’t usually get flattened.  Thus far into my life I have been blessed to have a strong immune system.  Even all those years working with kids didn’t hit me too hard.   I swam through the ocean of their sniffles and [...]

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The Wisdom of Desire

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What is it you really long for? Are you willing to long? Are you willing to be passionate enough in life to want what you want? To, as Mary Oliver says: “Let the soft animal of your body love what it loves”? I came to yoga in the beginning of a winter of depression. Family [...]

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Rebuilding Security: Using Muscular Energy to Heal from Trauma

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“Breathe in. Root all ten fingerpads and anchor that index knuckle. Draw energetically from the fingers all the way to your elbow and shoulder.” Pressing into the floor with determination I draw my shoulderblades onto my back and then soften my heart, let it rest like a lake framed by the hills of my scapula.  [...]

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