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A bright idea: A shala library
The folks at Brighton Ashtanga Shala have come up with a bright (ahem, get it?) idea: A shala library. Here’s how they describe it: We have started a small yoga library in the shala for current...
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Explore the ‘myriad manifestations of duality’ with Tim Miller
Every spring or early summer, Tim Miller leads a fund-raising yoga workshop to benefit the Sean O’Shea Foundation. Here’s our report from last year’s. We may — for reasons that I’m sure will become...
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Correct knowledge and Kobe Bryant’s ruptured Achilles tendon
Here are a couple of items worth a bit of your time. First up, Tim Miller’s latest blog post. He writes from one of his regular, annual workshop sites in Columbus, Ohio. It offers a glimpse of the...
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Which came first, the teacher or the yoga?
In most discussions (especially online) of yoga origins, there usually seems to be some implicit position taken that can be boiled down to: My yoga is best or my teacher is best. Arguments about...
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Of head stands and sexual relationships
One of the funnier of the Pattabhi Jois stories, in my opinion, involves head stands and a certain American, shall we say, relaxed attitude towards sex and relationships. You might need to turn up the...
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‘Rama loves you twice as much as you love him’
Thursday is Hanuman’s birthday, Hanuman Jayanti. (We missed highlighting Ram’s birthday a couple days back. A bit of an oversight, admittedly.) As we’ve mentioned, Tim Miller will be celebrating the...
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A good time to move and a bad time to move
Saturn, so beware, via indianetzone.com We’ve been dropping little hints about various “householder” duties lately — dating back at least to the Kino MacGregor weekend – that have been preoccupying us,...
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You have to read this, you’ll probably want to buy that
For many, many good reasons, Tim Miller’s blog post this weekend has been getting shared all over Facebook. If you haven’t seen it that way, do yourself a favor and click here and read it. Here is the...
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Video: Ashtanga Yoga Center in 2007 and Ashtanga & family, plus a story on Amma
If you’ve gotten through the piece on Ashtanga and asana, then here’s a trio of videos to help get you through this Monday (a holiday here in the U.S.). Tim Miller’s Ashtanga Yoga Center in March 2007...
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With gusto for the gustha
One of the exceptionally cool things about taking a short (unintentional) hiatus from your Ashtanga practice is that when you come back, you find a new appreciation for the little things. Partly, it’s...
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Tim Miller is your inspiring yoga teacher of the month
Tim Miller is Barefoot Yoga’s Inspiring Teacher of the Month for July. Tim Miller, via barefootyoga.com; photo by Michelle Haymoz Apparently, they finally got my email. This is how they describe him:...
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Guru Purnima: A Tim Miller story about Pattabhi Jois
I know we’ve posted this video before, but it is an appropriate one for Guru Purnima — bring both our gurus together. Thanks to both Guruji and Timji, and all the other teachers who’ve affected our...
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Guru Purnima, the royal baby and a chance for a week of bliss
England may rise again. I know a few folks were wondering about Guru Purnima — the full moon in July that falls on the day dedicated to the guru — as we posted around Monday’s full moon, and now Tim...
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Eddie Stern explains why he won’t be at the Confluence, and September is great
You’ve likely noticed that two-time Ashtanga Yoga Confluence teacher Eddie Stern, along with Nancy Gilgoff, aren’t on the roster for the 2014 edition. We’d heard he’d had a scheduling mix-up, which...
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A full moon Hanuman Chalisa and lessons from Timji
Here’s a quick video from last week’s full moon, which at Tim Miller’s Ashtanga Yoga Center was celebrated with some kirtan and … well, watch and you’ll find out. A good way to start the work week: I’d...
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Must read: ‘Pussycat’ Tim Miller on his Intro to Ashtanga class
We’ve posted something like 1,700 times here, and I can tell you this: Just three times have we said, “This is a must read.” Here is No. 4. Tim Miller’s latest blog post is about his Monday night...
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Tim Miller helps on Garbha Pindasana to Kukkutasana
A few posts ago I lamented the lack of video of the senior Western Ashtanga teachers. Today I spent a little time searching, and it pretty much confirmed my earlier suspicion: There’s a dearth....
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Tim Miller leads a Great Melt Down in New York
Earlier in the week, we linked over to a Krishna Das photo on Facebook that featured KD, Tim Miller, Eddie Stern and Leslie Kaminoff. (You can still find it here.) Now, we get a little...
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A version of the modern history of Vinyasa Yoga that credits Tim Miller
This one sort of jumps in right as Pattabhi Jois heads to Encinitas, but then backs off to when David Williams, Nancy Gilgoff and Norman Allen (you’ll see in the comments — from someone famous in her...
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Get Introduced to Ashtanga by Tim Miller
I’ve often called my teacher Tim Miller “the hardest working man in Ashtanga.” In addition to teaching expansive two-hour classes—often twice in a row—and arriving early for pranayama every morning...
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