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On December 1st, we have our monthly Studio Talk. This time our dear friend and brilliant Buddhist practitioner, Alejandro Chaoul will be discussing with us his new book on Tibetan Yoga and also his work with sound healing at MD Anderson cancer center in Houston, TX.
Read MoreIn a recent talk President Barak Obama spoke of the need to act with integrity keeping others and the world in the forefront of our mind. He said too that he hopes those of us who are older continue to do our jobs conscientiously, but that we step aside for wave of remarkable young people who are coming up in the world. In his words, “They are so much smarter than we are!” We couldn’t agree more.
On that note, as this year draws to a close, we’d like to welcome some new yogis into this world and encourage all those born into families of yogis (which in the Yoga Sutra is said to be a good thing) to live your dream—which doesn’t mean you must practice yoga—and help change this troubled world.
Check out One Time Animation created by sangha members father and son team Gray and Haven Hoof. Long time Yoga Workshop members may remember Haven’s baby picture in the “On the Mat” section of our paper version of Laughing Elephant when we featured him with his mother, Ashlee Dunn—who at the time was a teacher at our studio. Ashlee, Gray and Haven took last year off to travel the world. It was a dream come true until their adventure was cut short when they found themselves in Italy just as the pandemic hit! They made it safely home to the US and during this sabbatical year Gray has reignited his talents as a fine artist and animator (he was the first lead animator for South Park years back) while Haven provides input and voice overs for their animations. Ashlee is currently working on a book (“No Thanks I Don’t Drink: My New Mantra”), which will be out later this month! Some of the many good things that have come out of this year of lockdown!
Other wonderful news is that there have been lots of newcomers to our extended sangha this year. Olivia Hsu’s baby Walker and Angie Arnold’s baby Magnolia were among them. Plus, you may remember Troy Lucero who taught at the Yoga Workshop for many years. Just last month he and his wife Anna Katz had a baby boy, Solomon! Congratulations to all the new the parents and a big welcome to our incredible, crazy world to all the new babies!!
Check out these new projects! Please don’t hesitate to let us know what’s up in your neck of the woods.
Catherine Shaddix, is collaborating with Brooke Lavelle and Laura Schmalz to sponsor an embodiment practice retreat in February 2021. The conference will bring together the foundational practices of Ashtanga yoga, insights from Polyvagal Theory, and the knowledge that we take on stress shapes in the body when we feel threatened or overwhelmed (which is pretty much all the time for everyone these days). Their intention is to help folks notice what stress shapes they default to, and give them breathing, movement, and relational practices to do in order to harvest the wisdom of what the body is telling them and to act from that embodied wisdom. (Catherine Shaddix, Psy.D., is a Yoga and Buddhist meditation practitioner and teacher, as well as a licensed clinical psychologist, who lives in Oakland, CA.)
We’ve started posting a podcast of archived Studio Talks of Richard’s from when he’d give talks after Mysore classes at the studio back in the ’90s. We’ll be posting them on our site and YouTube on a regular basis on the first Monday of each month. Keep an ear out for them.
Check out these new projects by fellow practitioners! Please don’t hesitate to let us know what’s up in your neck of the woods.
Robert Muratore, a fellow yogi, filmmaker, and photographer for Art of Vinyasa, has a new and important movie that’s just out on YouTube. “Childhood 2.0” is an exploration of the mental, emotional, and social implications of being a child in today’s online world.
Our beloved teacher and friend, Bill Goldman, moved from Boulder to California with his wife Lara and their daughter Joslyn a few years ago. We miss him dearly, but they are thriving. Billy, as always, is full of life. Joslyn is an accomplished harpist and singer and Lara (who goes by the name Lara J Day) just produced a beautiful Oracle Deck call “The 13 Holy Nights.”
(Of course, there’s ours on the Gita, but some others you might enjoy even more)
Get Your Yoga On by Kino MacGregor: Insights into how ashtanga yoga is a practice for everyone…if we start where we are. Kino presents clear and detailed information (with lots of photos) about postures, modifications, and building a strong, healthy practice.
Yoga Myths by Judith Lassiter: Physical therapist and longtime Iyengar teacher, Judith offers advice for healthy alignment, demonstrating how some common instructions can do more harm than good if not practiced with intelligence.
Aah…The Pleasure Book by Jai Gottlieb, MD: How through meditation one can tap into the enjoyment of beauty, natural phenomena, and experience which can lead to the profoundly deep pleasure of seeing through the nature of mind.
One Simple Thing by Eddie Stern: A look at yoga as an integrated lifelong practice. Eddie also includes a fascinating, well-researched section on the nervous system and the vital role of the vagus nerve.
The Practice is the Path by Tias Little: A multifaceted and holistic perspective on how practicing yoga can be a transformative part of life.
