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20.01.2022 I heard a saying today Your only job is to potentiate yourself how many of us spend our lives trying to please our parents? Our partners? Our high school te...acher? Spending years climbing a ladder just to learn that it is leaning against the wrong building. The Yoga Tradition teaches us to first create within. Learn who you are. What makes you tick? What excites you? Where are you seeing through eyes that are colored with generational biases? Where are you reliving your trauma? Where are you stuck in stories that keep you in a limited state of consciousness? To potentiate yourself is to know yourself first. To unlock the power and beauty that lives within. First we create a relationship with awareness. The ability to be aware in each situation so that the unpacking of a life of ‘other people’s opinions’ begins. We create a relationship with the witness within, our conscience, our soul. Then moment by moment we live in conscious connection to self and take steps from that place of connection.

13.01.2022 within the music, let us hear the invitation to get into our bodies and out of our heads to feel our feet on the earth to breathe and stretch... to bounce and sweat to to sway and groove to let loose and release to transform and heal to smile with our hearts and connect with our own rhythm let us dance with intention and with no inhibitions so that all beings may be happy and free please join me at the wintermoon house concerts coming up on aug 8 and sep 12 for a very special dance yoga class additionally, at both events, we will be doing a sunday morning meditation and slow flow yoga https://www.facebook.com/yogaforeveryman/

12.01.2022 STRUCTURE. ROUTINE. DISCIPLINE. These were big areas of need in my life when I first discovered the Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series. I was 25 and had just come out... of emotional end to my first marriage. I was living in a 1978 Toyota Motorhome on the east coast of Florida. There was a sense of newfound freedom, but also there was directionlessness. I was working as a host at a restaurant, studying the Yoga Sutras and attending a lot of yoga classes. The first time I went to an Ashtanga class it kicked my ass. In fact, the first 2 months of Ashtanga kicked my ass. I had never taken a class with such discipline. It was equally about strength and awareness. My mind was quiet, and I suddenly had a sense of purpose. It was exactly what I needed. I fell in love with Ashtanga because each time I went, it was the exact same sequence. Each time I went, I watched my body and breath awareness evolve and change. The repetitive sequence of Ashtanga Yoga (as taught by Pattabhi Jois) provided the structure that was lacking in my life. It also helped me to see that I was stronger than I knew. Yea sure, I was still a hippie living in a van at the beach, but my sense of empowerment and direction was shifting dramatically. Suddenly, yoga became the focus. Yoga was a way of improving myself on the inside and outside simultaneously, because it provided a baseline. Each time I got on the mat, I began again, with a fresh perspective. It was renewing, revitalizing. **Fast forward to today, I'm 31, living in a bus with my family, based in the Australian rainforest. My commitment to a regular yoga practice has remained, but I shifted away from Ashtanga when I began studying Hatha Yoga at residential yoga ashrams founded by Swami Satchidananda and Swami Satyananda. These traditions taught me about introducing discipline into my meditation practice and expanding my sadhana (daily practice) to include chanting of mantras, pranayama, and slower-paced asana. At first, I was resistant, but in time I grew to love it and for the last 3 or 4 years, I have been moving with less vigor on my mat, tuning into the subtler aspects of asana. This video is from the other day, when I returned the Ashtanga Primary Series, which I haven't really done for about 1 year, at least. GOOD GOD! IT FELT SO GOOD. I tapped into the strength of my body and the power of the rhythmic breathing. I didn't feel like I was starting entirely all over again but it did kick my ass in a good way, even though I skipped over the last quarter of the sequence. I am reminded of the need for balance. The need to challenge myself, to witness my ability to persevere. I have learned that there is much to gain from a discipline which reveals areas where we can grow. Sometimes, it starts on the gross level of the body, and that transforms into growth on the personal, spiritual level. As a father, I am grateful for these rare moments when I can dedicate an hour or more to my asana practice. It is medicine on a physical and spiritual level. Again, though, it is all about balance. Sometimes the teaching is all about making the most of a quick 15 minutes of breathing and spinal warm-ups, and letting go of attachment to something longer.

05.01.2022 BEYOND FLEXIBILITY How can yoga help you as a man? You probably already know that the benefits go way beyond increased flexibility. But have you considered what that actually looks like and feels like?... I was recently a guest on a show called The Freedom Experiment and we dove into a conversation about the proven results of Yoga For Every Man Check out the highlights here or the full video on YouTube

02.01.2022 Wintermoon Festival has some beautiful events coming up in the next couple of months featuring yoga sessions with Christopher David from Yoga For Every Man

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