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About: Philip Urso

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Yoga Teacher Philip Urso loves to train yoga teachers how to teach exhilarating and unscripted vinyasa yoga classes. He co-founded Live Love Teach Yoga Teacher Training School with fellow yoga teachers Deborah Williamson and Stacy Dockins. His two 5-star podcasts on iTunes — A Crash Course in Miracles and Yoga Classes, Live Love Teach — have over two million downloads. Philip studies the dynamics of love and fear and teaches practical, reliable and lasting methods for choosing between the two. His Elephant Journal column explores these very themes. More info at PhilipUrso.com
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Music in Yoga Class? WTF?

by on Oct 20, 2012

I’ve noticed an increase in music being played in yoga classes, as I travel around the country giving teacher-trainings at studios. Some studios actually require music to be played during class; some teachers get suggestions for a “class playlist” from students on Facebook and some play music softly, like elevator music. I always ask the [...]

“I’ll Forgive You, You Miserable Bastard.” Forgiveness That Hurts or Works.

by on Apr 6, 2011

Imagine you are stuck in traffic. You find yourself in a rage at the driver of the car stopped up ahead. He’s causing this whole mess! And then you are lifted up, as if in a helicopter. You see an accident a mile ahead. You have a new view. You now look at the driver ahead, who, a moment ago you hated. You shake your head and smile.

This is how true, liberating, forgiveness works. It happens quickly and completely. Your new view of the situation is based on truth, not on a mistake.

Pornography. Masturbation. The Spiritual Story No One Wants to Tell.

by on Mar 19, 2011

There. I said it. The words that must not be named. Pornography. Masturbation. It’s our dirty little secret. No it’s our dirty BIG secret. 12% of all websites are pornographic. 70 % of men 18- 24 admit to visiting porn sites monthly. Men are doing a lot of looking and a lot of masturbating.

That A**hole is Really Your Guru.

by on Jan 25, 2011

You’re on a spiritual path, and you try to have compassion for all beings. But you draw the line at a**holes, right? It’s as if you say, “I can love all these people, but not this a**hole; this is where I draw the line!” A**holes show you the limit of your ability to love.

Yoga = Heroin.

by on Jan 13, 2011

Do you treat Yoga like heroin, an addictive narcotic? Yoga, drugs, drinking, orgasms try to answer spiritual impulses. But addictions are all lined up and ready to hijack!

7 Yoga Teacher Disconnects.

by on Dec 27, 2010

How Fear, Posing, and Yoga-Speak Make for Lifeless Teaching

With your experience and with all the tools you’ve learned, your class could be wild,


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