by Mariko Hirakawa | Mar 11, 2015 | Home Featured Blogs, Understand the Yogic Mindset
“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” – John Wooden As we become more practiced on the mat, it’s easy to feel we know it all – downdog, updog, been there, done that. What else is new? It’s so easy to slip into...
by Mariko Hirakawa | Mar 4, 2015 | Home Featured Blogs, Understand the Yogic Mindset
Essay by Mariko Hirakawa, E-RYT, B.A.M.S. Yoga is actually an enormously multi-dimensional, multi-faceted discipline built upon thousands of years of experiential knowledge. We speak of Yoga as if it were a single, homogenous body of knowledge, but Yoga with a capital...
by Mariko Hirakawa | Feb 18, 2015 | Deepen Your Asana Practice, Home Featured Blogs
Have you ever sat still in a crowded train station and marveled at the frenetic pace of the world around you? You closed your eyes, and inside, you experienced stillness, maybe even peace. You opened your eyes, and there was the world, buzzing with...
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 | 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...
