A few weeks back, I received a note via this blog: Dearest Peg, I fell in love with Ashtanga by the Rocket in SF. I don’t know many yogis out there that study both methods (Mysore and Rocket), I wanted to ask if you could please share more about your own personal experience and how, if you have chosen one… Read more →
Most of David’s “No’s” to me these last few days of our second series intensive week center around my slow and well-regulated approach to my practice. Everything from the methodical way I walk my hands to my heels in kapotasana … to my slow and careful lift into pincha mayurasana and all 7 of the headstands … to my finicky… Read more →
Day one of Second Series Intensive with David Garrigues … 75 minutes into my 2-hour Mysore practice: DG: peg, you doing the rest of your practice? ME: no. I’m tired. I’m done. DG: (quizzically, as if he didn’t hear my first answer) peg, you doing the rest of your practice? ME: yes. just taking a little rest. DG: (smiles) Of… Read more →
I’m often asked how I started down this yoga path. In fact, just yesterday I was talking to a group of students who specifically wanted to know about my roots as a teacher. At this point, I probably should’ve confessed: I shouldn’t actually be teaching yoga. You see, I only even began practicing yoga just to achieve arms like Madonna’s. … Read more →
i’m about to make two people in my life happy … my friend mike will be thrilled to know this post has nothing to do with jumpbacks, mysore, or any-thing ashtanga. in fact, it’s fish that have my fancy. salmon, to be specific. which will peak the interest of my husband, an avid fly-fisherman and self-proclaimed yoga widow – and… Read more →
I used to set my alarm to music – but all too often I would just incorporate the sound into my dreams until i was lulled back into a state of unconsciousness. Same with the more pleasant sounds of bells, harps, and chirps. No … I needed that deafening alarm that could drown out the sleep and force my eyes… Read more →
it was fourth grade music class with sister anne josephine, and i was completely engaged in my most favorite activity - passing notes back and forth with my best friend, lisa. (for those of you who are not old enough to remember, note passing was an archaic method of communication students utilized before the invention of text messaging.) anyway, back to… Read more →
Why don’t more people practice Ashtanga yoga? Two words. Go. This was my Facebook status from a month ago –and the responses were not only funny, but most rang pretty true as well. These were some of my favorites: marichyasana D too scared morning monotony no hiding requires change it’s hard and the #1 reason … snooze button The list… Read more →
During my practice this morning, my teacher came to me in parighasana and shared with me a little trick technique for getting a little deeper into the posture … and it worked like a charm! I wondered which brilliant teacher she learned this from. Had Kino put out a new you tube video I somehow missed? Was it David Keil,… Read more →
A funny thing happened to me on my way to Durham last weekend … well, actually it wasn’t funny at all. It was a caustic post on Facebook that took a disturbing aim at me. Yeah, I don’t know why people use social media to air their grievances either, but it happens. Anyway, that is not what this story is… Read more →
