Please enjoy some poetry that our students have shared. The first is by a friend and poet of long time student, Shirley Axon. Nancy and Shirley are part of a local dance troupe and they composed a modern dance for this poem. The second was written by Sue Budin after a pranayama class years ago. ... Read More »

I have a dear friend who lives in New York who shared this with me recently.  Richard wrote: Chris Hondros, one of the photographers who was recently killed in Libya,  was a longtime friend of a friend of mine, from our journalism days.  There was a front-page story about Chris's work in the ... Read More »

"We often think that ignorance means you don't know the capital of Albania. What yoga means by Ignorance can perhaps best be translated as 'nescience', which simply means not knowing. .... What don't we know when we are ignorant? ... Read More »

"The Wheel Of Peace The eight petals of yoga bring the fruit of poise and peace in us, peace in body and poise or harmony in mind. Unless there is peace in the body, there is no poise in the mind. Patanjali shows that heaviness in mind and body comes through klesa. After experiencing that peace, ... Read More »