Author Archive | Brooklyn Yoga School

Looking forward to participating in this year’s challenge!

Hello 2016 Challenge! Happy to be here with you all and looking forward to a month of practice together xo BYS

What I love about the Meditation Challenge is how it creates designated, intentional space for community in what is otherwise, for myself at least, a deeply personal, individual practice. It gives voice to the happiness we’re all seeking, whether we Read More

For most of this month I’ve been isolated at a beach house in North Carolina, writing. It’s off-season so there’s no one around, and I stocked up on groceries so I hardly even have to venture to the deserted grocery Read More

So how does all this meditation stuff tie together? How does it all fit into place and work once we’re off the cushion? For my own self, I can’t say that I know for sure, but it seems worth experimenting Read More

Sometimes during my workday I create the illusion that I need to be somewhere immediately. It starts when I get off the F train at Bryant Park and I begin the slow trudge up the stairs towards my workplace. There Read More

My first exposure to the metta practice was just a couple years ago, at a sitting led by Sharon. It felt like revolution. The idea that having compassion for others might be predicated on first having compassion for myself wasn’t Read More

Metta is the hardest for me – apparently both to practice and to write about. How to engage my brain enough to repeat the phrases without letting it get overstimulated? Sometimes I just focus on the final word: happy, peaceful, Read More