Teaching or Transmission? Igniting the Fire of Transformation (video)

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Teaching or Transmission?  It Makes All the Difference When You Want to Ignite the Fire of Transformation. Every yoga teacher wants to powerfully impact her students and improve their quality of life – and she usually imagines that she will do so by being a good teacher. I want to propose that in the field [...]

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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 Magic Seed

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Your yoga practice is a seed. What kind of seed it is, you get to decide. Maybe it’s a fragile orchid, or a wild arugula sprout, or maybe it’s a hardy, rampant squash that takes over the garden. Whatever you imagine the seed of your practice to be, how do you plan to support its [...]

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The Best of Bay Shakti: 2011 in Recap

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As 2011 draws to a close, it seems fitting to take a moment to reflect on the Best of Bay Shakti for this year. Bay Shakti experienced phenomenal growth during 2011: we added Managing Editor Fredo Guastella to our team, increased the number of contributors to the site by 14, and nearly doubled the number [...]

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Winter Solstice with Shri Cuisine!

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By Jana Kilgore and Patrick Bremser Welcome to Winter! I am sure by now you all know exactly where your wool is in all its forms: socks, scarves, gloves and more. The seasons are turning and for us in the Northern hemisphere, the darkest day of the year is upon us. According to Chinese medicine, [...]

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Journey into the Heart of Sacred India Pilgrimage (Pictures)

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A kind of India happens everywhere, that’s the truth too; everywhere is terrible and wonder-filled and overwhelming if you open your sense to the actual pulsating beat. ~ Salman Rushdie Travel will fundamentally change who you are as a person. Having never been outside of the state of California, I had the opportunity to learn this lesson for [...]

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Rooting into the Heart of Community

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My father liked to ask me, “What are you running from?” I would answer him, and then he would ask, “What are you running to?” This inquiry practice and exploration of two of the five kleshas (challenges), dvesha as aversion and raga as attraction has for offered me numerous powerful and profound revelations through the years. [...]

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