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From Student to Teacher: The Day You Start Standing at the Front of the Room
I’ll never forget my first time teaching yoga. I was in the middle of my own teacher training, and my instructor—without warning—told me to lead the group through Sun Salutations. Now, I’ve been on stage before. I’ve played music in front of a crowd, and I’ve spoken to rooms full of people. But this was different. The moment I stood up there, mat in front of me, eyes staring back, I realized I ...
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Toilet Bowl Cleaner or Inner Peace: What’s More Important?
(A personal story from Jordan—trust me, it’s worth the read!) So, I show up at Burning Wheel around 6:30 am, like I do most mornings. I put my earbuds in and start my little routine—bag down, vacuum out, carpets looking sharp. Then, I head down the hallway to clean the bathroom. And that’s when it happens.
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Redefining Productivity: How Rest Can Fuel Your Work Ethic
Imagine that moment in class when you are in a utkatasana twist. It’s so intense you are working, breathing, and sweating hard, but you give it everything. Then the release to the forward fold (uttanasana) comes, and you rest deeply. Everything drops; maybe you even drool a little (haha). The point is that you work hard, then rest deeply, then go back to hard work, twisting to the other side. ...
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Beyond the Physical: Discover the Spiritual Benefits of Practicing Yoga
Yoga as a practice has been evolving since its inception, from meditation and breathing exercises into what we now know as yoga today. At the core of all these practices, variations across all yoga traditions and forms of yoga, is the intended goal of liberation, freedom from suffering, or what some may refer to as enlightenment. Yoga is fundamentally a spiritual practice. The original intention ...
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The Pursuit of Fulfillment: Unraveling the Four Aims of Life
Yoga began as a practice of renunciation. That is to say; classical yoga encourages one to disengage from what is seen as the traps of the material world: no family, no possessions, no attachments. As yoga evolved and blossomed into what we now call Tantra, the practice was no longer focused on renunciation of life but full engagement with it. This engagement focus acknowledges that if we want to ...
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A yoga practice is more than movement alone. Rather it is a constellation of practices that guide and support a person on their path to personal liberation. Our blog seeks to share information about these practices to inspire readers to reach into the unknown and uncomfortable on the journey to uncovering their true nature. 
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