Elsie's Yoga Kula: Recent Episodes
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I teach a lot of beginners. I teach a lot of yoga first – timers. I teach a lot of folks that have not gone to a yoga studio. Lots of these folks have no idea what a yoga mat is and their first introduction to one is at the place where they take their […]
http://traffic.libsyn.com/scy/eyc101.mp3 Download the FREE Audio Yoga Class Tenacious Gratitude Thoughts? I can tell you mine. Tenacious didn’t quite feel “right” with me. I felt that being tenacious was not something I aspired to be. It’s too rough. Too hard. Too pushy. Too manly. I imagined the quintessential football player, the one that just stampedes over […]
Two years ago on the first Saturday of September I went into labor. It was a beautiful Labor Day weekend. On Saturday mornings I usually teach an 11am class. I generally leave a couple of hours before class and sit as Starbucks. I sit alone. I drink a hot drink. I work. I relax. It’s […]
It’s episode 100 of Elsie’s Yoga Class! http://traffic.libsyn.com/scy/eyc100.mp3 Download the full episode here! If you are new to me…welcome! In case you are popping in here for the first time: I’ve been podcasting my yoga classes since July 2006. They range in length from 20 to 90 min and from beginner classes to advanced. My […]
Sun. Delicious. Inhale. Remember. Now. For you Pittsburgh Yogi, ELEVEN….. It holds a profound significance. It carries the vibrational frequency of balance. It hold within it the dance of paradoxical opposites: masculine and feminine, light and dark, ignorance and enlightenment, sun and moon, mortal and immortal, creator and destroyer, mundane and extraordinary. It has the […]
http://traffic.libsyn.com/scy/Ep_99_37_min_Level_1-2_Yoga_Class_Shine_Within_As_You_Shine_Without.mp3 Download the 37 minute audio yoga class I just wrote a post called When The World Doesn’t See You As You See Yourself, which was the basis for this episode. The execution of embodiment, which to me = action is what I feel in my humble opinion a giant factor in creating lasting embedded […]
You know how you feel inside? All the good stuff, I’m talking about: your dreams, the vision of who you are in the world, your passions, all that stuff that totally fires you up! I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately. How that inner brilliance translates to the outside world, and whether it does […]
Planting is about vision. It’s about being able to step back and see the bigger picture. Planting is about recognizing what you have, your soil and your ground and making choices to enhance, fertilize and cultivate that which is real and tangible in order to bring about the greatest harvest to serve you and those […]
It was like putting clothes on that just didn’t fit. I felt fake. I felt like an impostor. I drew back into myself and hid. I might even say that I was scared. In fact I was scared, I just didn’t know it when it was happening. I wonder of you guys can guess what […]
I remember taking at least 3 yoga classes a week with some of the most qualified and masterful instructors. I remember thinking nothing of buying an unlimited yearly class pass at my favorite yoga studio for over 1k. I remember immersing myself in Yoga Journal plus all the countless yoga books that kept on growing […]