About: Susanna Harwood Rubin
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Where do you go to Meditate?by Susanna Harwood Rubin on Apr 30, 2013 I return in quiet to certain specific images that hold the space of meditation for me like an inner bookmark. 577 views |
I Keep My Eyes Open so that I Can Meditate on Life.by Susanna Harwood Rubin on Apr 4, 2013 I’m sitting in a square in the Gràcia neighborhood of Barcelona. I’ve just finished teaching a weekend of yoga philosophy workshops at the Yogaroom, so I happily decided to spend Monday relaxing and exploring. I watch kids ride around on miniature bikes with tiny helmets on their heads while I drink a hot [...] 456 views |
What You Dream of, What You Dread, Your Deepest Desire, Your Most Visceral Fear.by Susanna Harwood Rubin on Mar 19, 2013 We don’t get to choose what life presents to us, but we do get to choose who we want to be in relation to it. 1,569 views |
Make Your Body Your Temple, Your Asana Your Ritual, Your Breath Your Prayer.by Susanna Harwood Rubin on Mar 12, 2013 I regularly ask my students, Can you think of your practice as prayer? 3,623 views |
“Only Connect.” Monday Morning Yoga.by Susanna Harwood Rubin on Feb 25, 2013 There is no perspective without space. There is no connectivity without an opening. There is no yoga without movement. 782 views |
Find Meaning. Create Beauty.by Susanna Harwood Rubin on Feb 5, 2013 It is hot and dark and there is sweat trickling from odd places, such as the drop moving down the back of my left thigh and making its way toward my ankle…Nothing is entirely what it seems or what I expect it to be. 1,586 views |
On Yoga & Dreams, Displacement & Sea Change.by Susanna Harwood Rubin on Dec 17, 2012 It made me wonder about the stories lodged in the corners of my psyche-trapped or nestled between layers of skin and sinew, wound around organs and absorbed into bone. 710 views |
Receiving the Gift of Yourself.by Susanna Harwood Rubin on Oct 2, 2012 “Love your life,” said Ganesha. “Love your life.” 3,078 views |
Falling in Love with Your Life.by Susanna Harwood Rubin on Jul 31, 2012 You are the seducer and the seduced. 3,022 views |
Finding the Words for Pain.by Susanna Harwood Rubin on Jul 4, 2012 I’ve described the sensation as a water balloon pressed to its limit and about to burst. 2,399 views |
Your Eyes Are Desire.by Susanna Harwood Rubin on Apr 25, 2012 What do you really want? 982 views |
My Busted Knee, My Broken Heart: Welcome to the Burning-ground.by Susanna Harwood Rubin on Apr 2, 2012 I find it important to remind myself that the burning down may not be finished. 2,051 views |
Leaving Anusara.by Susanna Harwood Rubin on Feb 15, 2012 To those of you I love who are staying and those I love who have left, I hope it’s ok with you all. It’s the best I have to offer at the moment. 4,640 views |
My Decade of Beauty – Building the Palace Within.by Susanna Harwood Rubin on Jan 5, 2012 How deeply do you wish to participate in your life? 1,617 views |
My Double Life (or…Doing the Yoga of Art).by Susanna Harwood Rubin on Nov 18, 2011 “So you’re not going to make art any more? You’re just going to do yoga?” 1,832 views |
Looking for God on the 6 Train.by Susanna Harwood Rubin on Oct 26, 2011 …the unbearable boredom of the flickering lights, the jockeying for seats, the banality of the beige-yellow-orange subway seats… 1,291 views |
How I Learned to Writeby Susanna Harwood Rubin on Oct 11, 2011 There was a heat, a feverishness that I would physically feel and still do…It was the sensation of beauty experienced bodily. 1,107 views |
Smashing Coconuts at Dawn.by Susanna Harwood Rubin on Sep 27, 2011 Do we sometimes need to break one thing down in order to build up something new? Absolutely. 1,573 views |
Saying “Thank You” – A Love Letter to my Teachers.by Susanna Harwood Rubin on Aug 29, 2011 …something in the tone of his voice shifted something for me, and my carefully taped together self began to come unstuck. 3,134 views |
Which is Your Favorite God? Travels with Jesus, Shiva, Mary, & Ganesh.by Susanna Harwood Rubin on Aug 10, 2011 It’s a funny thing to fall in love with a set of traditions that aren’t yours by birth or by culture. 1,375 views |
Sweat, Pray, Write.by Susanna Harwood Rubin on Jul 20, 2011 I’ve soaked through layers of my sari and my computer rests on my thighs like a portable oven. There are a couple of tiny ineffectual mosquitoes flirting with my neck and arms… 1,659 views |
Meditating with Your Eyes Openby Susanna Harwood Rubin on Jul 6, 2011 You are permeated in every sensory manner and you release into it. The temple is a body, pulsing with life. 1,198 views |
“Swollen With Light”by Susanna Harwood Rubin on Jun 21, 2011 If you want to learn about the universe, get very quiet. 1,362 views |
Eversomuch More-So: Yoga is virtuosity in becoming yourself.by Susanna Harwood Rubin on Jun 8, 2011 If you want fluency and depth in your life, you must cultivate a state in which you are always becoming more profoundly yourself. 1,491 views |
The Beauty of Movement.by Susanna Harwood Rubin on May 23, 2011 Once you get a hit of the stillness held by movement and of movement‘s suspended stillness, no matter where you are, you carry the awareness of it with you. 889 views |
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