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Standing in My Yoga

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On Sunday, after an emotionally exhausting weekend, I posted the following to my Facebook profile: My practice is the outer manifestation of the inner experience. As I stand in my yoga, even amidst the chaos of the field of Kuru, I remember that my yoga is, ultimately, what I live in my heart. Even as [...]

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Anusara Controversy: Overview and Timeline

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Updated May 18 Many readers inside and outside the Anusara community have asked for a simple, fact-based chronology of what has happened since the allegations of misconduct by John Friend surfaced on February 3, 2012. For that reason, we are compiling, as far as we know, the main events since that day. In addition, we [...]

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2012 Eye of the Tiger Practices Foster Deeper Community Connection in the Greater Bay Area

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The 2012 Eye of the Tiger Practices, being hosted this year in an all Bay format with rotating teachers and at locations across the area, was off to a great start this past Saturday. Thirty-nine Anusarans joined Stacey Rosenberg in San Francisco for the inaugural practice.  I was there, and it’d been a while since [...]

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Tigers to Roar All Across the Bay Area in 2012

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After an absence of a few years, the Eye of the Tiger practice saw a resurgence in 2011 in the Bay Area: first, with Abby Tucker’s “Old School” Eye of the Tiger Practice in the East Bay, and then by Stacey Rosenberg in San Francisco. The “Eye of the Tiger” practice, first offered by John [...]

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The Practice And Decision Making: Q&A with Christina Sell

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Editor’s Note:  After Christina Sell announced her resignation from her Anusara Certification, I reached out to her to talk about her decision.  Although I have never practiced with Christina, I did read her first book, Yoga From The Inside Out: Making Peace with your Body Through Yoga, and have greatly admired her approach to the practice.  [...]

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Yoga Tree Telegraph in Berkeley Opening Party

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On Sunday, November 20, the Bay Area yoga community celebrated the opening of the newest branch of the Yoga Tree studio on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley.  Anusara is already well represented there, with Certified Anusara Yoga Teacher (and Bay Shakti contributor!) Abby Tucker teaching several classes there.  Bay Shakti friend Charles Ekabhumi Ellis lead the [...]

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Thankfulness

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With Thanksgiving just a week away, gratitude and abundance are on our minds here at Bay Shakti. Read about The Thankfulness Practice, a practice for dealing with a sense of lack, or of a belief in scarcity in life.  Need inspiration?  Read up on Alice Van Ness’ list of reasons why she loves Anusara yoga. [...]

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