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The studio, Yoga Form, is in a residential neighborhood on the outskirts of the city of Antwerp. The studio is lovely with an outside garden, studio for practice and retail/foyer/kitchen area. Yoga is still in its infancy here, and so the community that comes together is so mutually supportive. In the last day of the [...]

We are teaching in Antwerp, diamond capital of the world. Yoga Form, where we are teaching, is run by a dynamic South African woman, Nicki and her Vermont-raised partner, Wesley.  The local language is Flemish which is a version of Dutch, (Holland is immediately to the North) yet we speak in English. There is some [...]

We are off to a flowing start here in Belgium, teaching the “Fluid Body” course here in Antwerp. It has rained and been very grey and drizzly cold, reminding us how expansive is the southwest sun. Speaking of flowing, we spent our first two nights here in Belgium in the old city of Brugge—a city [...]

For some time I have thought that yoga demands an ongoing willingness to let go. We train physically by practicing asanas to loosen our bodies to unglue stuck hamstrings, loosen overly bound tendons and and unmoor organs that have become fixed.  Not only do we experience stickiness in our physical structure, but we all too [...]

The seeker is double-edged. On the one hand the curiosity and willingness to investigate is invaluable for the journey. On the other hand the seeker gets caught in the seeking. Come to recognize in your own practice how the seeking becomes all consuming. Then at some point begin to drop the looking for and start [...]

Reflections this morning on the difference between the “inherent nature” of mind and the “apparent nature” of mind: This point was brought out by Khandro Rinpoche in this last month’s investigations on the nature of mind and the teachings on Mahamudra practice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. In my meditation this morning, it came clear [...]

Reflect on how important doubt is on the path, for without doubt you cannot go forward. There must be Great Doubt or Total Doubt. Doubt appears as a potent teaching in Zen and in the Christian faith as articulated by Doubting Thomas. I should know the vitality of the doubting Thomas! In Zen master Hakuin’s [...]

Surya and I attended a week-end workshop on Marma Point training with Dr. Vasant Ladd in Albuquerque.  The event was focused on points of the head and face. In the clinical sessions points on the feet, knees, belly and chest were included. The final session combined the application of crystals on the body and stimulating [...]