Author: Sarvesh

(Originally Published 2016) “You are a shallow breather; in fact, you are all shallow breathers.”  Our teacher said this to us during our first week at the ashram in her thick Eastern European accent.  I didn’t really know what to make of this statement.  Am I a shallow breather physically?  Physiologically?   It turned out both.  It was explained to us that through our social conditioning and basic physiological functioning of the body, we as a […]

(Originally published 2016) I think that we as human beings like to experiment and think that a lab is fun place.  On a macro level, I have often thought that the Earth was a lab experiment for human beings, and as a microcosm always remember hoping in high school chemistry that I would be the one who blew up a small part of the lab by mixing the wrong chemicals!  That fun seems to take […]

(Originally Published 2016) Sit on the floor. This simple request back in October seemed mundane enough.  So I sat, and realized within about 30 minutes that this benign request was going to become my yogic challenge for the course.  I was unaware of both the length and consistency of floor sitting required not only in practice where we utilize Vajrasana and the seated variations (Padmasana, Sukhasana) but the class time spent in this position.  During […]