by Mariko Hirakawa | Feb 11, 2015 | Deepen Your Asana Practice, Home Featured Blogs
Perhaps you’ve already noticed this: the yoga mat is a great place to unfold the metaphors for the greater processes of life. Showing up on your mat and doing your practice often leads to “ahas” in unexpected areas of your life. It is so exciting when this happens...
by Mariko Hirakawa | Feb 4, 2015 | Deepen Your Asana Practice
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” ― Joseph Campbell In many ways, a Yogi is a spiritual hero. To face the challenges life provides squarely and unflinchingly requires heroic qualities. Each time we make a decision to confront a difficulty,...
by Mariko Hirakawa | Jan 28, 2015 | Understand Ayurveda
Have I got your attention with this title? Good! Because we are about to delve into the amazing world of the Yogi’s vision of Creation.Let me say at the very get-go that Samkhya is the very reason that Yoga”works”.Yoga works because it stands on the...
by Mariko Hirakawa | Jan 21, 2015 | Home Featured Blogs, Understand Ayurveda
by Mariko Hirakawa, B.A.M.S., D.Ay., E-RYT It is said good and bad things come in threes. Take the Three Wise Men, the Three Blind Mice, The Three Stooges, the Three Musketeers. It seems it takes 3 to create some drama! In the story of Ayurveda, depending on the...