Yoga: The Practice, the Profession, the Paradox Original Piece by Avani |April 2013 Any yoga teachers out there ever felt discouraged by the apparent paradox between yogic philosophies and the yoga business reality? At odds with the Eastern vs. Western approaches to...
The Short History of Yin Yoga Original Piece 2016 | Avani Yin Yoga was officially titled as “Yin” by Sarah Powers after years of study with Paul Grilley in a form of practice he had originally referred to as “Taoist Yoga”. According to Paul Grilley, there are three...
OK Yogis, I get it. We are: Carefree and flexible in both body and spirit, we go with the flow, move like water, have open minds, open hips, seek to love and appreciate ourselves for who we are, see the light in all beings and sometimes we wear balloon pants and...
Initiation of the Journey — Student Profile: Halli Halli here. I am 28 years old. I spent my first 17 years growing up in Santa Rosa, Ca (the northern part of Cali). Just after graduating highschool, I moved down to the sunny beaches of Santa Barbara, CA, just 2 hours...
How I broke a bad habit. It’s been said that to create a habit you need to do the same thing for 21 days. But nobody talks about you how many days it takes to break a habit? Something interesting happened to me in Costa Rica at Yoga Teacher Training. After doing yoga...
The Doshas Pitta, Kapha, and Vata may be terms you’ve heard about here and there, but what exactly are they? How do you know what you are? Do you pick your own? Does someone else choose for you? The Doshas are are different combinations of the five elements...
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