You’re Starting a Yoga Practice But first, what the heck is Yoga? Yoga is simple. It is paying attention to your breath and posture for set periods of time. Unfortunately, our world has over-complicated it with sexuality, superficiality, and our schedules for our selves. Yoga studios are some of the most interesting phenomenon in the … Read more
ISLAM: The Religion of Muslims and Mohammed Islam is a monotheistic religion that believes in the prophecy of Abraham through the Qur’an,which is considered to be the verbatim word of god (Allah), and Mohammed’s (600CE) example . Mohammed is considered to be the last prophet of god. Any adherent to the religion is called Muslim. … Read more
“Study the past if you would define the future” – Confucius Confucius and Confucianism Confucius or ‘Kong Qui’ is a celebrated Chinese philosopher that lived in 500 BCE. His thoughts, philosophies and teachings were further developed at the end of his life into the religion of Confucianism which received official sanction shortly after his death. Much of … Read more
The Tao Taoism, or the practice of recognizing the Tao also sometimes called the Dao, is an ancient Chinese religious tradition that emphasizes living in harmony with the essence of nature or the Tao. The Tao is usually described as a way of life that is natural, primordial, or in alignment with ease, health, challenge, … Read more
A photo posted by Elliot | ET (@pada_yogi) on Jul 6, 2015 at 5:52pm PDT Challenging My Self w/ Teaching Yoga I am a yoga teacher. This past weekend I taught seven yoga classes. Nine if you include Thursday and three of them were on Saturday. By the end of the class I was a bit … Read more
Remembering 15 Weeks in Asia I feel very lucky to have gotten through the entire trip throughout Asia without more than a couple of bruises and an empty bank account. India and Thailand were the highlights of the trip and Kathmandu, Nepal and Myanmar both beckon return journeys of significant lengths of time. The trip … Read more
A Unique Approach to Meditation Meditation is one of my favorite things. Yoga, sitting cross-legged while doing various mental exercises, running, teaching yoga, and performing other focused exercises are examples of what I define as meditation. Anything where there is focus and concentration. Yin yoga has become more and more prevalent in my own practice, … Read more
This story is part of a series, this is the twenty-sixth part. You can read the first story here: The Wanderer, Part 1 and the most recent story here: The Wanderer, Part 25 The Wanderer Continued… Tas continued his leisurely stroll down the last of the stairs and into a magnificently adorned dining hall with silver and crystal … Read more
Lao Tse, The First Taoist Lao Tse, Laozi, Lao-Tzu, Lao-Tze, or Laozi was a philosopher and poet in ancient China who is best known for founding Taoism by writing the Tao Te Ching. He is a deity in certain traditions and probably lived around 4-500 BCE, but is often dated to the time of Confucius … Read more