Recreating Trust Part 2: The Letdown
Have you ever met anyone who fulfilled your expectations and lived up to your intentions all the time? While it would be wonderful if you could honestly say yes, the answer is likely no. So…
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Recreating Trust Part 1: The Honeymoon
Recreating Trust Part 5: Take an Inventory
Before we move forward in any relationship where trust has broken down, we need to first clean up the mess that we and others in our lives have made. The unresolved upsets will weaken the…
Recreating Trust Part 3: Storing Our Resentments
During the honeymoon, everything is so wonderful because you are not dealing with a lot of disappointments. You can be open and intimate with a high degree of trust. So on the scale of…
Recreating Trust Part 4: File Emptying
Have you ever been in a situation where somebody else said or did something, and another person reacted in a way that was dramatically disproportionate to what you said or did? Of course!…
Recreating Trust Part 6: Expressing the File and Listening
If you are going to communicate everything in your file to another person, how would you manage your communication?
Practicing All Eight Limbs...At the Same Time
Ashtanga Yoga is not an Indian form of calisthenics or gymnastics. It is an eight-limbed path. The word Ashtanga comes from a text dating somewhere between the 4th and 1st centuries,…
Behind the Scenes at My Yoga Journal Photo Shoot
This summer, I was asked to model some basic asanas for the November 2011 Yoga Journal magazine: As someone who has been practicing Ashtanga for 20 years, I expected the shoot to be an…
The So-Called Tradition of Ashtanga
I have noticed that as the Mysore-style Ashtanga method becomes more popular over the years, the individual connection between teacher and student is disintegrating. The practice, which was…
Transforming the Sacred Wound Part 9: Integration
Once the pain of the emotion has passed, once we have completely and compassionately descended down to the bottom of the rock, we experience a sense of relief. We begin to widen, deepen,…
Transforming the Sacred Wound Part 8: Cultivating Compassion
The real gift we have to offer to others is our compassion. Likewise, the real gift we have to offer ourselves is compassion. The place we often go to when we feel the pain of our wound is…
Transforming the Sacred Wound Part 7: Practicing Presence
However unnerving the experience, we need to bring a moment-to-moment awareness to the wound. It’s important that we not get lured too much into the past or future storylines until we have…