Tag: Scott Moore Yoga
I’m always talking about the balance between effort and ease in a yoga class. Understanding the balance between over and under exerting yourself is the secret to going the distance in your yoga asana. Likewise, it’s a lesson that we can apply to our every-day life. Finding The Balance When exerting or stretching, I always […]
Quiet The Mind The Yoga Sutras by Patanjali is a collection of Sanskrit verses, compiled sometime between 500 BCE and 400 CE and directs someone toward how they might achieve the ultimate state of yoga called Samadhi, or Oneness with all things. The Yoga Sutras can get pretty esoteric but they start off quite straight […]
Running Into The Unknown Years ago, some friends and I were spending an afternoon in the paradoxical desert of the Great Salt Lake. The texture of the sand, crusted with salt, weather, and time is a sensational feast for bare feet. The landscape is very flat and is so flat that it’s become a famous […]
When something isn’t working in life, if you feel stuck with some sort of quandary, often the best remedy is radical simplification. Simplify to the point where our body, mind, and spirit can digest easily and clearly the task at hand. Simplification means choosing to release the unessential. Simplification means finding what for you is […]
Unfortunately, hard financial times often makes us feel like we need to circle the wagons, draw in our resources, and look out for our own interests. The scarcity of financial means sometimes leads to scarcity of good will toward each other. But even with tough times financially, there are perhaps more resources than you can […]
I’ve been blessed to have many wonderful teachers in my life. One of my most influential teachers is Judith Lasater. She is a well-respected senior teacher living in the United States, a close student of yoga great B.K.S. Iyengar, and basically invented the concept of Restore Yoga. She was a founder for The California Yoga […]
Much of the pain that we are experiencing in the world right is the result of things dying, things like institutionalized racism, bigotry, sexism, and general lack for the environment. Like the immortal “crooning” words of Bob Dylan, “the times, they are a changin’.” It’s important to remember also that much of the pain of […]
The pain we’ve been feeling this year is both a combination of things dying and other things which are being born. With awareness, we can discern the difference and find a healthy pathway forward into a new life. This has been very challenging. It’s been Covid-19 with more than a million deaths around the globe. […]
There are many ways to be in the world. It takes an open heart, a keen ear, and a discerning eye to feel into those way that one belongs in the world. I’m both a jazz musician as well as a career yoga, Yoga Nidra, and meditation teacher. I feel as if these pursuits chose […]
Did you know that when we say the word “yoga” it means two different things entirely? The experience of yoga is different than the practice of yoga. Knowing how one works with the other helps our journey in both. The experience of yoga and the practice of yoga are different things and both are different […]
We all have problems. We all grapple with the unknown, about the Universe, sure, but more specifically about our own complicated life. We all want to solve our problems as quickly and painlessly as possible. But how can our problems actually help train us to become the people we desire. What way can the yoga […]
Change Is In The Air First day of fall. School has started. Schedules are changing, becoming more busy, even despite the pandemic. The crescendo of the presidential election is getting louder. The leaves are changing. Things are always changing. Sometimes we are caught up in the momentum of this motion of change to […]
Rabbit Hole of Worry We are all subject to doubt and indecision from time to time. Especially during COVID, it’s easy to begin to wallow in worry and start down that dark rabbit hole. And perhaps it is the rabbit hole that will lead us to peace but not the dark hole of worry, rather […]
I wish I knew the beauty of leaves falling. To whom are we beautiful when we go? Excerpt from “Three In Transition” by David Ignatow And to whom are we beautiful as we go? This poem seems to point to the fact that even in our failing, there is a part of creation and therefore […]
There’s a brilliant lyric from Leonard Cohen’s Anthem that goes like this: Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in. ~Leonard Cohen Brilliant. I love this for so many reasons but mostly I love how it suggests that […]
