Take Rest

Restorative yoga is the yoga of rest and relaxation, the yoga of your parasympathetic nervous system. It is the most yin of all the modern yoga styles, a mere bolster or two away from meditation, still and sublime, yet incredibly supported. It's day 4 of a holiday, that part of your vacation where you abandon your efforts to relax and simply melt into the hammock.

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Ma Busi

Busi is 57 and not very tall, 5’4 if I had to hazard a guess, she walks with a slight limp, I am not sure why and I have never asked. Busi is hard of hearing, the result of TB medication taken years ago, she wears hearing aids, but still needs to lip read, she cannot hear much yet she still teaches because “this work is important, and people need it”.

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Eternal Flame

February Is the month of love, and here in the southern hemisphere it’s the peak of summer, the height of fiery yang to which the heart belongs. Love and fire. I would like to offer you another perspective to the capitalist take on cupid’s union, a little more devoid of sentimentality: one that is free and truly about freedom.

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