Posts in Peru,Health,Yoga (Asana)
5 Ways Thai Massage Complements Your Yoga Practice (For Practitioners & Teachers)

By: Randi Schiffman

“By combining these practices I’ve enhanced my skills as a healer with greater awareness on the power of the energetic body and the stories our bodies hold physically. If we continue to do the work internally to unify with mind, body and spirit — Yoga — we will be able to maintain balance and health in the physical body — the ultimate goal of Thai Massage.”

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Location, Location, Location: On Permaculture and Why It Matters Where You Do Your Yoga Teacher Training.

By: Joanna Cohen

“As three weeks at The Yoga Forest passed, I learned yogic philosophy from class and yogic life from the forest. Permaculture living came to be one expression of everything we were learning about yoga.”

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I am not the Body...

By: Randi Schiffman

“A big head spinner this season for me is commonly hearing the phrase  “I am not the body” or “I am focusing my upper chakras”.  Now, as a yoga practitioner and teacher, I understand the philosophy behind this phrase, but in my experience and here at the lake in San Marcos, they are not realizing also that….We are the body. “

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Steady and Comfortable

By: Randi Schiffman

“For many of us, ‘doing yoga’ means getting on our mats, stretching out, strengthening our core, and relaxing in savasana.  But where did this idea come from? What journeys does it present for us within? And what does it really mean to be steady and comfortable in your seat?”

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Union Found: Shamanism & Yoga

By: Coby Hadas

“When I first read these ancient Vedic texts I was awestruck by the incredible overlap between what I was reading and what I had learned from my Shamanic teachers in Peru. The texts were describing the exact path that my teachers had laid out before me.”

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Shamanic Healing: Cleansing the Diamond Within

By: Coby Hadas

“She led me through many different ceremonies, sometimes two or three a day. We worked with various jungle plants, each with a different intention. Some were to strengthen the body, some were to cleanse certain organs, some were for vitality, some worked in the astral and dream realms.”

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