Making Progress in Yoga
What does it mean to make progress in yoga? Is it in the poses? Or in right alignment? Is this even the right question?
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Tara Lemerise
Jan 17, 20233 min read
Practicing Freedom
The Bird Who Flew Free Once upon a time there was a kind-hearted, wealthy man who had a beautiful talking bird as a companion. The bird...
Tara Lemerise
Sep 1, 20223 min read
5 Ways to Level Up Your Yoga Practice
Looking to take your yoga practice to the next level? Here are 5 great ways to deepen your relationship to yoga.
Tara Lemerise
Aug 5, 20223 min read
Which Way Does the Wind Blow?
This is part two of a post about prāṇa. Check out part one here. Yoga poses are the part of yoga that most folks think of when you say...
Tara Lemerise
May 19, 20226 min read
The Greatest Yoga Hack of All Time
Viparītakaraṇī isn't the Sanskrit name for legs-up-the-wall pose. It is an entire practice and one of the greatest yoga hacks of all time.
Tara Lemerise
Mar 13, 20222 min read
Protecting the Vulnerable
Matsyasana and the story that inspired the name of this pose can give us some inspiration for these challenging times.
Tara Lemerise
Feb 12, 20226 min read
An Ode to Restorative Yoga
My favorite kind of home makeover shows are where they find something really valuable and unexpected under some badly designed wall or...
Tara Lemerise
Jan 7, 20223 min read
Winning at Yoga and Risk
First things first. You can't "win" at yoga. That just gives me a clever title. My husband, though, ALWAYS wins at Risk. It's kind of...
Tara Lemerise
Nov 4, 20213 min read
Practicing Integrity
Here's why practicing integrity via garudasana - eagle pose - makes complete sense.
Tara Lemerise
Sep 30, 20212 min read
Compassion In Action
Half moon pose instant typically top of mind as a quintessential pose of compassion. This story might convince you otherwise.
Tara Lemerise
Aug 9, 20213 min read
The (Non)Violence of Our Times
Ahiṃsā pronounced exactly as it looks: short “a” sound, “him” as in the male pronoun, “sa” with short “a” sound at the end Non-violence....
Tara Lemerise
Apr 14, 20212 min read
How to Let it Be Easy
I was deeply inspired by a recent email I received from teacher, mother, writer and resting advocate, Octavia Raheem. She implored me and...
Tara Lemerise
Dec 16, 20203 min read
Confessions of a Bored Yogi
Confession: I used to avoid savasana. (I know, I know. The Restorative Yoga advocate is here saying I used to skip savasana. I can hardly...
Tara Lemerise
Nov 5, 20203 min read
What are your obstacles?
The other day a friend shared this: Does that sound familiar to you? It certainly does for me and I felt joyful about my friend’s feeling...
Tara Lemerise
Sep 23, 20202 min read
In Honor of Trees
A long time ago when I first began practicing yoga, I took a class billed as “advanced yoga”. I remember feeling nervous when I signed up...
Tara Lemerise
Sep 3, 20202 min read
Truth and Change
The other day I noticed that my daughter had moved the clock in her room. When I asked her about it she told me that the nightlight on...
Tara Lemerise
Mar 2, 20204 min read
Emptying the Sea: A Story of Tenacity, Community, and Compassion
I was in college studying philosophy and comparative religion when I had this revelation about myths and folklore and stories of all...
Tara Lemerise
Jan 31, 20202 min read
Is gecko yoga a thing yet?
Last Sunday I had just returned home from my annual winter Restorative Yoga retreat and I was dragging my feet about unloading all of the...
Tara Lemerise
Aug 27, 20192 min read
The Side Show
Many years ago, I heard this piece on NPR about how multitasking is a delusion. We think we are doing more than thing at once but what’s...
Tara Lemerise
Apr 29, 20192 min read
The Art of Yielding
Will and I were in the car a few days ago, about to merge onto 495 when the traffic in front of us came to a dead stop on the ramp. As we...
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