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Tara Lemerise
Jan 247 min read
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?
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 6, 20229 min read
Restorative Yoga to Combat Eye Strain
Screen time dominates our time, wreaking havoc on our eyes and our nervous system. This Restorative Yoga sequence with a headwrap will help.
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
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
Feb 18, 20213 min read
We might need compassion instead of solutions.
Is your default compassion when someone is going through a tough time? Mine definitely isn’t! The other day a friend texted me and I...
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
Oct 7, 20203 min read
The Essence of Stillness
My son Will is a dreamer, a thinker, a creative mind kind of kid. Sometimes I’ll catch him just sitting still, staring at this elaborate...
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
Jun 30, 20192 min read
What We Get When We Fail
The Swamis once gave me an assignment: Make a list of all of the times you wish you made a different choice. Sounds easy, right? At first...
Tara Lemerise
Jan 31, 20182 min read
What's love got to do with it?
I recently heard about a church group who started what they call Valentine’s Day of Compassion about 10 years ago. In an answer to the...
Tara Lemerise
Nov 30, 20173 min read
The Yogi's GPS
I’ve driven to my hometown in York, PA from the DC area more times than I can possibly count. Certainly hundreds – maybe thousands? – of...
Tara Lemerise
Aug 1, 20172 min read
Making Space for Contentment
I’ve just returned from leading a 4-day summer retreat that was all about cultivating contentment. Santosha (sometimes spelled samtosha...
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