Embrace Life!

Hi there beautiful slow yogis (anyone who practices yoga is called a yogi)! 

I hope you are enjoying my website and trying out some of my suggestions as well as developing a slow yoga home practice. I teach in Bend, Oregon and the Philippines so if you are interested in taking a class with me you can contact me at my contact information just below my photograph and bio. 

Play with the postures, experiment, and make sure you are having fun with them. Yoga literally means to join, to embrace. Yoga, particularly slow yoga, was created to help people embrace life more fully. 

The story is told of a teacher who ran a school in Ancient India wherein students copied the old classics. A new student who later went on to be one of the great yogis pointed out to the teacher that the students were using copies to copy the text from. Shouldn't they be using the originals? The teacher gave some thought to this and decided that the young man was right. The teacher then proceeded into the basement of the temple where the originals were stored. An hour went by, two hours, three hours and so on. The students started getting restless. Had something happened to the teacher? He was a very old man after all. 

The young student was sent to look for the teacher. In the basement the student saw the teacher sitting on the floor weeping. The student was surprised by this. He had never before seen his teacher weep. He proceeded cautiously towards the teacher. The teacher, who could instinctively feel the young man's presence said, “There is a word we've been copying for decades which I now realize is wrong, an error. We've been writing CELIBATE when it says right here in the original CELEBRATE.” 

Peace and Love,

Slowly,

Abhay