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The Problem of “God” in Obama’s Newtown Elegy.by yoga 2.0 lab on Dec 22, 2012 Someone should give Pastor Huckabee a job. Hand him a roll of forensic tape. Or a scrub-brush. Or a small hammer, to tap finishing nails into the tiny coffins, and actually feel the world again. 687 views |
Seeking Evidence that Yoga and Meditation Are Not Politically Neutral: a Proposal to Results-Test our Practice for Empathyby yoga 2.0 lab on Nov 21, 2012 By “yoga”, “meditation”, and “spiritual practice”, I argue that we generally mean more than socio-politically neutral techniques of self-regulation and internal harmony that anyone can use to become a more effective sociopath. We’re shy of saying it, for reasons that baffle me, but I believe we know in our bones that a practice that does not lead to empathy, enhanced intimacy and relationship, and the progressive political desires that naturally flow from these, is not the real deal. 765 views |
The Yoga Community Must Shelve Both Idealism and Politeness to Loudly and Publicly Endorse Obama. Right Now. Who’s In?by yoga 2.0 lab on Nov 1, 2012 by Matthew Remski Approaching the eve of this critical election, I’ve been bothered by two political stances within the yoga demographic. One is etheric to the point of dissociation: “Whatever change we desire will only come through a change in consciousness.” The other is flaccid and polite to the point of meaninglessness: “Yogis can use [...] 2,497 views |
It’s Time for Yogis to Develop Transparent and Democratic Community in Their Hometowns: some notes on John Friend and Kausthub Desikacharby yoga 2.0 lab on Oct 25, 2012 We must stop creating yoga schools that purport to teach yoga when their corporate and spiritual bureaucracies force them to do the exact opposite. 5,945 views |
The Michael Roach Bubble.by yoga 2.0 lab on Jun 29, 2012 There are reports that Christie McNally was last seen in Kathmandu, trying to secure a private audience with her first teacher, Lama Zopa Rinpoche. She couldn’t. There is a report that Christie’s mother has quoted Christie as saying: “Michael Roach murdered my love.” The Thorson family is starting to talk to the media. No one knows where this story is leading. But a close look at how it’s unfolding, and how Roach and others have chosen to respond so far, gives a dizzying view on how deep this rabbit hole goes. 34,655 views |
Tragedy at Diamond Mountain: an Update.by yoga 2.0 lab on May 19, 2012 As Ian’s body dissolves, I’m convinced now more than ever that our spirituality must resist the toxic consolations of bypassing, over-certainty, and authoritarianism. It must wake up from the dream of perfection to work diligently, with eyes wide open, in the garden of relationship, drawing upon simple hopes and common tools. 33,255 views |
Psychosis, Stabbing, Secrecy & Death at a Neo-Buddhist University in Arizonaby yoga 2.0 lab on May 4, 2012 The immediate cause of Thorson’s death is most likely exposure and dehydration. But I believe that a full investigation will show that the deeper causes involve cultish religious fanaticism, untreated psychosis, and the gross negligence, incompetence, and obstructionism of the Board of Directors of a neo-Buddhist retreat centre called Diamond Mountain University, headed by its founder and spiritual director, Michael Roach. This full legal and medical investigation is warranted immediately, because there are still 35 people camped out on Diamond Mountain property who may well be in as much physical and mental danger as Thorson was. 57,562 views |
 An Ayurvedic View of Cancer.by yoga 2.0 lab on Apr 28, 2012 In brief we could say that cancer develops from unprocessed experiences that we defend from inquiry until they harden into identity structures upon which we paradoxically come to depend. Such dependency literally changes our somatic chemistry and the very formation of our tissues to reflect and support a retroflexive state (to use the Gestalt term). 973 views |
easter elegy for jennaby yoga 2.0 lab on Apr 8, 2012 jenna died on a monday. on the sunday before I was downstairs packing up my ex-wife’s favourite belongings to ship them off to england. I was crying with loneliness and floods of memory, missing my step-daughter, missing the complexity of the broken bond. jenna came down after her class was finished and knocked on the door and came in and saw me and knelt down beside me and then took me in her arms as I wept and shivered. 830 views |
Grounding Anusara 3: intimacy, methods, therapy, and making it open-sourceby yoga 2.0 lab on Mar 7, 2012 Anusara doesn’t need more money or to protect its teachings. What it really needs to see is whether its methods can function in intimacy, stripped bare of the spa-dazzle and doublespeak. 1,055 views |
Grounding Anusara 2: a brief ayurvedic follow-upby yoga 2.0 lab on Mar 3, 2012 The homeless, hyper-mobile, light, fast-paced, and breathless quality of the Anusara collapse can be pacified through various expressions of warmth, weight, stillness, moisture, regular stool production, oiliness, and familial cuddling. Ayurvedic therapy begins here: identifying a central imbalance, and applying balancing/opposing forces to existing vulnerabilities. 1,625 views |
Grounding Anusara.by yoga 2.0 lab on Feb 24, 2012 The Anusara situation reminds me of some of the greatest insights of Baudrillard and Foucault. 1. The spectacle of power always conceals a lack. 2. The clothes of the emperor amplify his nakedness. 3,641 views |
Elemental Rest: an Ayurvedic Approach to Restorative Yoga.by yoga 2.0 lab on Jan 16, 2012 Regardless of training or lineage, teachers of Restorative yoga share a common language of ecology and mothering. We naturally gravitate towards the grounding and support of a restorative pose, buoyed up by props. We are sensitive to the flow of circulation, the glow of internal resolution, the rippling oscillation of breath, and the expansiveness of mind and heart. These common terms express the elemental powers of earth, water, fire, air, and space. They allow the bodymind, in rest and quietude, to understand and enjoy its coherence with the living world. Perhaps without knowing it, we’re using the language of Ayurveda: India’s elegant and intuitive method of embodied poetics. 1,353 views |
Elegy for Jenna Morrison, Yoga Community Leader.by yoga 2.0 lab on Nov 15, 2011 Cycling expresses an implicit love for community. It puts you on the street, in real time, outside of the alienating bubbles of steel and glass. You make eye contact with others, you hear everything, you don’t spew fumes, you understand the economy between effort and movement. 2,581 views |
Mic Check! A slow-communication revolution at OWSby yoga 2.0 lab on Oct 19, 2011 Of the countless intersubjective graces unfolding in Zuccotti Park and around the Occupy world, the “human microphone” is recapturing something as old as human learning. This is something sacred: a repurposing of voice, ear, and content that may serve no less than the re-membering of a more coherent human consciousness. 395 views |
steve jobs: an ayur-reflection about a lost mother, the pancreas, and the maternalization of technologyby yoga 2.0 lab on Oct 12, 2011 Steve Jobs lost his maternal source of sweetness and nurturance at a critical age. He then worked with blazing determination to recover this intuitive support, not only for himself, but for others. Between his loss and his relentless overcompensation for this loss, he burned up in sacrifice his physiology of sweetness: plasma, fat tissue, and the pancreas. He both created and possessed as a mother does. 1,476 views |
The Yoga of Self-Expression: a Little Cucumber-Water for the Pitta of Josh Schreiby yoga 2.0 lab on Sep 7, 2011 Josh writes as a yoga-protector, and I write as a yoga-evolutionist. He presents tradition and meaning as fixed and certain, and I focus on meaning and tradition as being unstable, yet growing. 1,483 views |
threads of yoga: a remix of patanjaliby yoga 2.0 lab on Sep 1, 2011 We worked on this text in a barn on a mountain in Vermont, during one of those months in our lives that felt like everything was pulled, through gravity, into our hearts. Quite unexpectedly, we found ourselves animating this gleaming artifact of our adopted tradition with our eccentric and uncertain breath. 2,214 views |
Jack Layton, Ayurveda, & the Progressive’s Body.by yoga 2.0 lab on Aug 28, 2011 I am in awe at the ongoing sacrifice of being alive to each other. Now I am willing to pay, all in, to the bone. There isn’t a choice, and I have nothing else. 1,914 views |
Yoga Bloggers Meet in the Flesh! They’re Alive! Alliiiive!by yoga 2.0 lab on Aug 25, 2011 The first thing I noticed about Carol Horton as she arrived for the YFT yoga blogging panel this past weekend was her piercing archer’s gaze. A career of academic discernment has given her an auric edge, and you can feel the heat of her bullshit meter, which has surely sharpened with years of vinyasa. 1,711 views |
Where do we start in yoga?by yoga 2.0 lab on Jul 19, 2011 Before speaking, before time, before individuation – we begin with the ground of embodied perception. Lips wrapped around the nipple, bodies molded to the mother’s side. One continuous flesh with the mother, with the world. 658 views |
epocheby yoga 2.0 lab on Jul 12, 2011 You begin to lengthen a muscle. At the first stroke of pleasure it takes over and lengthens itself. Your breath seeps into a forgotten place. A limb straightens. A network of unseen contractions disengages. Flesh and thought soften to neutral. 677 views |
Yoga Threatens Evangelicalism. Just like Jesus.by yoga 2.0 lab on Jun 27, 2011 Here’s the crucial axiom of faith-based theism: human life is valuable to the extent that it is possessed by an external god. Further: the road to perdition is paved with the delusion that you can find meaning in your own way. You have fallen into this fallen world through your own fallen nature, and you can’t learn your way out. You need a saviour, and a book. And you’d better choose wisely, because there’s only one of each. 1,099 views |
the creative posture in yogaby yoga 2.0 lab on Jun 20, 2011 The child is feeling her neurology blossom. The infinity of shells intimates infinite systems. Attraction that flows over a sequence of particulars is the beginning of pattern recognition. Things repeat, things vary, things disappear, things return. 729 views |
Canadian Tantric Tips for Global Yoga Communityby yoga 2.0 lab on Jun 13, 2011 Stand in Tundrasana like a Douglas Fir. Make sure your skis and poles are standing absolutely vertical beside you. Feel warm prana descend from your tea-cozy hat into the cave of your heart, which is shaped like an igloo. Inhale, and exhale. 867 views |
Post-Catholic Yogiby yoga 2.0 lab on Jun 5, 2011 I became Catholic again, for a single day. 1,430 views |
27 tweets on the Lakshmi Bikini.by yoga 2.0 lab on May 31, 2011 The conservative says: If you love this image, you must see and use it the way I do. Become a religious person, like me. 2,017 views |
The Birth of Yoga Community Torontoby yoga 2.0 lab on May 24, 2011 Four years along, the Festival has morphed into a year-long schedule of events and workshops. Slowly, we’re learning the ropes of sustainability, and can sit back a bit and watch what we’ve co-created unfold in directions we couldn’t anticipate. Through this, we learn the lessons of community: the more who participate, the more power multiplies and spreads itself around. There’s no one in charge. A shared mindfulness holds the rudder. 918 views |
Let’s Get Dirty Together: Towards Ecology in Spirituality and Medicineby yoga 2.0 lab on May 16, 2011 Inspired by how eco-medicine has the potential to correct the isolationism of biomedicine, the 2.0 crowd feels it’s time to retranslate ‘sauca’ in a way that reins in dissociative asceticism. We propose that instead of “cleanliness”, which carries the ghost of social separation, or “purification”, which carries the ghost of metaphysical body-hatred, we simply use the word “ecology”. 811 views |
Seize the Day, but Don’t Seize Upby yoga 2.0 lab on May 9, 2011 We can seize around an identity. Or we can be seized by a social role, or by a god, or by the stars, or by an errant wind. Patanjali affirms that we can leave behind both seizing and the act of being seized, to choose connection, to choose presence. 752 views |
69 Licks on Brahmacharya (and Sex), 2.0by yoga 2.0 lab on May 1, 2011 In the deepest pleasure of self-and-other discovery, humans making love utter the first bija mantras. They say Ohhh, Ohhh… Mmmm, Mmmm. 2,501 views |
Intellectual Carelessness in Blogging is Discouraging.by yoga 2.0 lab on Apr 25, 2011 By failing to directly quote a single phrase of our published work (over 105 pages on EJ alone), Bjonnes simplifies and decontextualizes our ideas… 1,121 views |
Yogi: Steal this Post!by yoga 2.0 lab on Apr 19, 2011 “Refrain from stealing” is a naïve instruction for the contemporary yogi, who lives in a world of bizarre economies, in which normal life is sustained by theft from the earth, in which consumerism creates power imbalances with every purchase, in which monetary values are unsupported by material ballast, in which lineages of knowledge are appropriated across time and culture, and in which ways of helping others can be trademarked. 576 views |
The Eight Limbs of yoga 2.0: Satya—Inconvenient truths about truth.by yoga 2.0 lab on Apr 13, 2011 Truth used to depend upon a stable point-of-view. A stable point-of-view used to hinge upon a coherent sense of “I”, i.e., authority. Points-of-views came from authors… 973 views |
What Jill Bolte Taylor Might be Telling Us about Samadhi, An Account of 2 Right-Brain Gurus, and a Call for Research.by yoga 2.0 lab on Apr 5, 2011 What if many physical and meditative practices are revealed to specifically limit left-brain blood flow, oxygenation, and activity? What if, ironically, the cognitive meltdown of a peak experience is not about communion, but about the willed obstruction of the corpus callosum – the neuronal spindles that bind the left and right together? What if samadhi is not union at all, but a rupture in the balanced polarity of consciousness? 2,842 views |
Yoga Culture’s Response to Japan’s Earthquake: 5 Reactionsby yoga 2.0 lab on Mar 29, 2011 We’ve watched the catastrophe expose our values, worldviews, and hopes with great clarity… 874 views |
Yoga & the Religious Attitude.by yoga 2.0 lab on Mar 23, 2011 Modern yoga exists at the juncture of faith and faithlessness, on the cusp between belief and inquiry. It begs the question in a thousand ways: can faithful people have substantive conversations with those for whom faith is an open question? 1,441 views |
The Eight Limbs of yoga 2.0: should yogis want their guns back?by yoga 2.0 lab on Mar 15, 2011 Is violence not inherent to life? If so, has the pacifist ideal distanced me from life? 1,321 views |
The Eight Limbs of yoga 2.0. Ahimsa: Pacifism, or the Resistance of Oppression?by yoga 2.0 lab on Mar 10, 2011 by Matthew Remski with Scott Petrie This post is number two of 33 on the subject of “Eight Limbs in the 2.0 Age”. #1 gives an outline of our general inspiration and approach (– check out the comment-thread as well to get a sense of how we invite and facilitate interaction on the levels of [...] 1,066 views |
The Eight Limbs of yoga 2.0by yoga 2.0 lab on Mar 3, 2011 What do we value in our 2.0 relationship with Patanjali? How do we read, think, and practice? What is useful—and what must we revise? This post is the first of a series of 33 articles (!) that re-vision, re-touch, re-sound, re-smell and re-taste the eight limbs in light of new complexities. 2,973 views |
Video editing as sadhana: The Power of Then (“yoga by any other name”, part one)by yoga 2.0 lab on Feb 23, 2011 Yoga is happening in unprecedented ways, through unprecedented technologies. We could be worried about this, but this would be far less productive than investigating and celebrating it. 872 views |
Yoga is Performance Art.by yoga 2.0 lab on Feb 16, 2011 “All teaching includes showbiz: an ambivalent shadow play of what you think you know and what you think someone needs or will be entertained by, all subconsciously designed to conceal your doubt…” 3,381 views |
yogis must stand against Capital Punishment.by yoga 2.0 lab on Feb 8, 2011 god does not ruin relationship. but God sure can. 698 views |
Open Source Asana: Yoga 2.0by yoga 2.0 lab on Feb 3, 2011 We are all zombie-loving online yoggers… 2,014 views |
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