About: Melanie Jane Parker
Posts by Melanie Jane Parker:
The Post-Yoga Teacher Training Blues.by Melanie Jane Parker on Jan 31, 2011 Now that I am in the position to teach, I am even more bewildered as to how to go about it. 1,104 views |
Street Yoga Wants To Help You Change Lives.by Melanie Jane Parker on Dec 2, 2010 Street Yoga takes the practice out of the studio and into homeless shelters, youth centers, and juvenile detention facilities. 759 views |
 Notes on a Teacher Training: Psychoanalyzing the Student-Teacher Relationshipby Melanie Jane Parker on Nov 21, 2010 Sometimes we expect our teachers to be a lot like our parents. 375 views |
Notes on a Teacher Training: The Style Debateby Melanie Jane Parker on Nov 16, 2010 Needless to say, I am a conflicted human being. These conflicts are woven into my yoga practice, and they are brought to the surface nearly every single day when I get on my mat. I can recognize long-hidden tendencies expressing themselves through standing poses or forward folds; I detect places of emotional resistance while in [...] 751 views |
Notes on a Teacher Training: A Meditation on Ignoranceby Melanie Jane Parker on Oct 19, 2010 Ignorance is regarding the impermanent as permanent, the impure as pure, the painful as pleasant, and the non-Self as the Self. 534 views |
Notes on a Teacher Training: The Body.by Melanie Jane Parker on Sep 27, 2010 Raise your hand if you’ve ever hated your body. 231 views |
Notes on a Teacher Trainingby Melanie Jane Parker on Sep 25, 2010 Every fall, Laughing Lotus Yoga Center offers a 200-hour teacher training program at both their San Francisco studio and their Manhattan studio. Dana Flynn spearheads the adventure in Chelsea, while her partner Jasmine Tarkeshi conducts this ecstatic journey in the Mission. Dana and Jasmine, with the aid of co-teachers, cultivate a truly unique practice space [...] 811 views |
I Love You, Whether You Like It or Not.by Melanie Jane Parker on Sep 8, 2010 The bumper sticker says it all. 1,631 views |
A Road Trip, A Pilgrimage.by Melanie Jane Parker on Aug 30, 2010 Approach your environment, familiar or strange, with openness and fascination. 861 views |
The Language of Embodiment.by Melanie Jane Parker on Aug 11, 2010 I drive a car. It strikes me as shameful, especially when I’m at the pump. I can’t quite reconcile this dirty habit with all the other things I do to promote mindfulness in my own life—such as eating an organic vegetarian diet, recycling, composting, refraining from using toxic products, conserving water and electricity, and avoiding [...] 869 views |
Relationships According to Yoga.by Melanie Jane Parker on Aug 10, 2010 How to Relate Through Yoga Practices. Raja yoga, also known as ashtanga yoga, is a spiritual system aimed at bringing the mind into union with the true reality. This philosophy and its applications are discussed in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. The practice of raja yoga emphasizes meditation, whereas the practice of hatha yoga emphasizes the asanas. [...] 744 views |
In Transit: Remembering to Breathe.by Melanie Jane Parker on Aug 5, 2010 Practicing Yoga in the Chaos of NYC. I spent the past week visiting friends and family in New York. It was more or less a reconnaissance mission. I was gathering sensory data as it applies to the question, could I live in New York City? I am leaving Portland, Oregon at the end of August [...] 289 views |
Leaving Your Yoga Teachers.by Melanie Jane Parker on Jul 23, 2010 True teachings are never specific to a time and place. My yoga practice began at home. I have carried it through dorm rooms, student housing, a tiny apartment in Buenos Aires, road trips and a rarely used fitness center—practicing next to an elderly man in his (very loose) underwear. With or without a mat, I [...] 1,668 views |
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