Memory and Forgetting as part of practice, and part of yoga. Memory serves a key role in practice, but we also get caught up in memories as a definition of our individual personality, which can have limiting effects. We have to remember to forget what we think we know sometimes in order to advance our practice.

Spiritual practice can provide us with the means to overcome our tendencies and habits, unless it becomes another cloak for those very same tendencies. We are challenged to stay alert to the ways in which spiritual practice might provide a convenient justification to avoid our difficult experiences and feelings.

Music by Matt Wiviott: liveyogamusic.com

Spiritual practice can provide us with the means to overcome our tendencies and habits, unless it becomes another cloak for those very same tendencies. We are challenged to stay alert to the ways in which spiritual practice might provide a convenient justification to avoid our difficult experiences and feelings.

Music by Matt Wiviott: liveyogamusic.com

Spiritual practice can provide us with the means to overcome our tendencies and habits, unless it becomes another cloak for those very same tendencies. We are challenged to stay alert to the ways in which spiritual practice might provide a convenient justification to avoid our difficult experiences and feelings.

Music by Matt Wiviott: liveyogamusic.com

The mother and her tongue.

Recorded at Bliss Yoga Studio on a recent teaching trip to Grand Cayman Island.

Yoga is now. Our mental excursions to the future and the past are a distraction from the experience of yoga which is only the present moment.

Yogis use mantra and music to connect more deeply with our true self and with the nature of the universe.

Music by Kevin Nathaniel:

http://mbirasanctuary.com/

featuring original music by Stephanie Carlin

http://stephaniecarlin.com/

Intelligence means everything connects -- alignment of body, breath, intention, speech, and action. Misalignment creates tension in the body or in the mind. When all component of the yoga practice are working together, harmony, serenity, peace of mind, and joy arise.