Mindful Alignment Strategies: Forward Bends 1

Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment - Intro    Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment: Changing Habits

Go to Some Suggested Reading on Mindfulness/Meditation and Anatomy/Physiology    Go to The Value of Asking "Why?"

Go to The Evolutionary Benefits of Saying "Yes" to Negativity    Go to Most People Value "Goodness," but What Does That Mean?

Embodied Blessings: Memories of David Serko

Go to The David Serko Project Website    Go to Time's-Journey-Friend    Go to All Fears are Truly One Fear

Go to The End of Time: Neither Apocalypse Nor Immortality    Go to A Personal Story of Conscious Life Transition

Go to my Translation of the Gayatri Mantra (for more on svaha)

Why Truths Aren't Always Real - Part Three of Three

Go to Part One    Go to Part Two    Go to Weakening the Hold of Misperceptions and Karma    Go to What Exactly is Karma?

Go to Our Bodies are Sacred    Go to Where Classic Star Trek Meets Current Science    Go to Mistaking Desire for Necessity

Go to The Essence of the Universe is Consciousness    On Endings: Refraction and Horizons, Perception and Time

Go to On Twists, Turns and the Sustainability of Culture    Go to All Fears are Truly One Fear

Go to Conscious Evolution and the Significance of the Evening Star    Go to Potential Relief for the Persistently Overwhelmed

Go to Samskara: A Mostly Painful Aspect of Spiritual Evolution    Go to Adhikara: A Process of Becoming Your Deepest Self    

Why Truths Aren't Always Real - Part Two of Three

Go to Part Three    Go to Part One    Go to The Power of Discernment: A Rational Look at Magical Thinking    Go to What is Dharma?

Go to Shift of Perspective    Go to Standing in the Threshold    Go to My Tantric Torah: False Witnessing in the Internet Age 

Go to A Yoga Controversy: What's the Definition of Yoga?    Go to Breathing New Life into Old Scriptures: Yoga Sutra II.1 

Go to Kleshas: Challenges of Dealing with Reality    Go to A Humble Thought Experiment on Dualistic Thinking

Why Truths Aren't Always Real - Part One of Three

Go to Part Two    Go to What is Yoga Anyway?    Go to Know Your Heart    Go to Refraction and Horizons, Perceptions and Time

Go to My Tantric Torah: Whatever Happened to the Golden Calf?    Go to Looking Glass Integrity

Go to the Value of Asking "Why?"    Go to The Sustainability of Culture    Go to What Does Goodness Mean?

Go to The Essential Nature of the Universe    Go to Dangers of Dogmatic Dualism

Symbols of Kali Ma: A Path to Heightened Awareness - Part Three of Three

Go to Part One    Go to Part Two    Go to My Tantric Torah (Intro)    Go to The End of Time    Go to Painful Muscle States   

Go to The Myth of Maya and Brahma   Go to Refining Discernment    Go to Our Bodies are Sacred   

Go to The Value of Asking "Why?"   Go to How Ganesha Got His Elephant Head    Go to Infidelity/Idolatry and Discernment       

Go to A Personal Story of Conscious Life Transition    Go to The Power of Discernment: A Rational Look at Magical Thinking

Go to Samskara: A Mostly Painful Aspect of Spiritual Evolution    Go to Potential Relief for the Persistently Overwhelmed

Go to Conscious Evolution and the Significance of the Evening Star    Go to Whatever Happened to the Golden Calf?

Symbols of Kali Ma: A Path to Heightened Awareness - Part Two of Three

Go to Part Three    Go to Part One    Go to An Ego Isn't an Error to Be Fixed    Go to Demons of Ancient Myths   

Go to Metaphors of Govinda (Krishna)    Go to The Evolutionary Benefits of Saying Yes to Negativity

Go to All Fears are Truly One Fear    Go to Fall Festivals of Light    Go to The Myth of Multi-Tasking   

Go to A Wonderful Line from the Svacchanda Tantra

Symbols of Kali Ma: A Path to Heightened Awareness - Part One of Three

Go to Part Two    Go to the Myth of Maya and Brahma: A Tantric Creation Story    Go to Refining Energetic Awareness 

Go to Leveraging the Power of the "Gods" Inside Us    Go to What is Tantra? (Hint: It Has Nothing to Do with Sex)

Go to Dr. King and the Temple of the Kingdom of God    Go to Cultural Maturation and the Hurdle of Stagnant Archetypes

Go to A True Story of the Power of Meditation Practice    Go to Symbols of Shiva Nataraj: The Divine Dance of Cosmic Consciousness   

Hello! I Would Like to Share with You a Most Amazing Musical - Part Three of Three

Go to Part One    Go to Part Two    Go to Non-Dogmatic Languaging    Go to Ten Commandments? Not Really...

Go to What is Yoga Anyway?    Go to A Story of Final Judgment    Go to The Story of Fierce Warrior Virabhadra

Go to Dangers of Dogmatic Dualism     

Go to Shari's Script for "The Attackmen" (about the dangers of worshiping false idols)

See Andrew Rannells singing "I Believe" with the Original Broadway Cast

Hello! I Would Like to Share with You a Most Amazing Musical - Part Two of Three

Go to Part One    Go to Part Three    Go to Cultural Maturation and Stagnant Archetypes   

Go to Medieval Overtones in Spiritual Texts    On Becoming a Veteran Virgin

Go to Metaphors of Govinda (Krishna): Tending Compassionately to Our Wandering Minds   

Go to Where Have All the Grown-Ups Gone?    Go to Leveraging the Power of the "Gods" Inside Us

Go to Practical Metaphors in the Fourth "Commandment"    Go to A Mostly Painful Aspect of Spiritual Evolution 

Hear Josh Gad and the Original Broadway Cast Singing "Man Up"

Hello! I Would Like to Share with You a Most Amazing Musical - Part One of Three

Go to Part Two    Go to How I Got to See "The Book of Mormon" on Broadway    Go to Thematic Storytelling   

Go to Lotus Metaphor    Go to Dr. King and the Book of Revelation    Go to the Essential Nature of the Universe       

To to My Tantric Torah: The Second Word (aka "Commandment")    Go to the Oldest Extant Chant (Gayatri Mantra)   

Go to Yoga Sutra I.2    Go to Why Truths Aren't Always Real    Go to Dangers of Dogmatic Dualism

Go to the "Book of Mormon" at the 2012 Tony Awards - Hello!    Go to the Theme of "South Pacific" (from the 1958 film)

Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment: Four Aspects of Hip-Opening - Part Two of Two

Go to Part One    Go to Musings on Hip Alignment    Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment: Intro

Go to Trika Philosophy OR Why One Plus One Equals Three    Go to What Is Yoga Anyway?    Go to the Myth of Multi-Tasking

Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment: Four Aspects of Hip-Opening - Part One of Two

Go to Part Two    Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment: Introduction    Go to Basic Energetics    Go to Changing Habits

Go to Femoral Rotation and the Low Back    Go to More on Knee Alignment   Go to Four Muscle States    Go to Painful Muscle States

Go to More on Ankle Alignment    Go to Musings on Hip Alignment    Go to Musings on Shoulder Alignment

Go to Hip Widening and Psoas Relief   

Lovette George and the Garden of Spiritual Perfection - Part Three of Three

Go to Part One    Go to Part Two    Go to Time's-Journey-Friend    Go to more on Willpower and Desire

Go to Looking-Glass Integrity    Go to The Yoga of Circles and Lines    Go to Non-Dogmatic Languaging

Go to Samskara: A Mostly Painful Aspect of Spiritual Evolution    Go to the Evolutionary Benefits of Saying "Yes" to Negativity

Lovette George and the Garden of Spiritual Perfection - Part Two of Three

Go to Part Three    Go to Part One    Go to Time's-Journey-Friend    Go to More on Boundaries    Go to My Tantric Torah

Lovette George and the Garden of Spiritual Perfection - Part One of Three

Go to Part Two    Go to Time's-Journey-Friend    Go to Ten Commandments? Not Really...    Go to The End of Time

Go to A Personal Story of Conscious Life Transition    Go to Shaucha: Conscious Choices that Support Healthy Personal Boundaries   

Go to Weakening the Hold of Misperceptions and Karma    Go to the Essential Nature of the Universe is Sacchidananda

Go to Our Bodies are Sacred    Go to the Universal Chant    Go to the Challenges of the Yogic Journey

Go to Can Yoga Help Ease Suffering?    Go to Ishvara: An Exploration of Ancient Yogic Terms and Medieval English Overtones

Go to My Tantric Bhagavad Gita Introduction    Go to A Story of Final Judgment    Go to What Exactly is Karma?    

Cultural Maturation and the Hurdle of Stagnant Archetypes - Part Two of Two

Go to Part One    Go to Dr. King and the Temple of the Kingdom of God    Go to Where Have All the Grown-Ups Gone? 

Go to My Tantric Torah: Ten Commandments? Not Really...    Go to Samskara: A Mostly Painful Aspect of Spiritual Evolution 

Go to Adhikara: A Process of Becoming Your Deepest Self    Go to A Story of Final Judgment    Go to Culturally Enforced Emotional Masks

Go to Looking Glass Integrity    Go to No One Stays Young Forever    Go to the Yoga of Circles and Lines 

Cultural Maturation and the Hurdle of Stagnant Archetypes - Part One of Two

Go to Part Two    Go to An Exploration of Ancient Yogic Terms and Medieval Overtones   

Go to a Personal Story of Conscious Life Transition    Go to my Tantric Bhagavad Gita (for More on Stagnation and its Alternatives)

Go to Leveraging the Power of the "Gods" Inside Us    Go to Why Are Lotuses Mentioned So Often in Spiritual Texts? 

Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment: Femoral Rotation and the Low Back

Go to Lateral Hip Widening and Psoas Relief    Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment (Intro)    Go to Basic Energetics    

Go to my Musings on Hip Alignment    Go to Painful Muscle States    Go to Changing Habits    Go to Contraction Wrinkles    

Go to Skills of Turning Yoga Poses into Engines for Health and Healing    Go to my Musings on Shoulder Alignment

Go to Four Aspects of Hip-Opening    Go to Chaturasana (Number Four Pose)    Go to Pigeon Prep (Eka Pada Rajakapotasana Prep)

Some Suggested Reading on Christianity, Islam and Gender/Race Studies

Go to Suggested Reading on Yoga Practice and Philosophy

Go to Suggested Reading on Mindfulness/Meditation & Anatomy/Physiology 

Go to Suggested Reading on Taoism, Buddhism and Judaism
    

shrishari Blog Archives: April 22 - July 14, 2012

Go to Blog Archives 7    Go to A Rational Look at Magical Thinking    Go to My Tantric Hatha Yoga Pradipika (Intro)

Go to Supine Twists 1    Go to Samskara    Go to Saying "Yes" to Negativity 1    Go to Basic Energetics    Go to Changing Habits   

Go to My Tantric Patanjali: Yoga Sutra I.2    Go to Led Yoga Classes & Taught Ones 1    Go to Painful Muscle States 1   

Go to Non-Dogmatic Languaging 1    Go to Hip Widening and Psoas Relief 1    Go to Internal Sensitivity 1    Go to An Ego Isn't an Error 1

Go to Blog Archives 1    Go to Blog Archives 2    Go to Blog Archives 3    Go to Blog Archives 4     Go to Blog Archives 5 

Go to Blog Archives 6   Go to Blog Archives 9    Go to Blog Archives 10    Go to Blog Archives 11

An Ego Isn't an Error to Be Fixed - Part Two of Two

Go to Part One    Go to Can Yoga Help Ease Suffering? (Yoga Sutra II.16)    Practicing the Buddha's Four Noble Truths

Go to Looking Glass Integrity   Go to The End of Time: Neither Apocalypse Nor Immortality - Yoga Sutra IV.33   

Go to A Personal Story of Conscious Life Transition    Go to Gratitude is a Transformative Attitude    Go to What is Yoga Anyway?

Go to Ishvara: An Exploration of Ancient Yogic Terms and Medieval English Overtones    Go to Where Have All the Grown-Ups Gone?

An Ego Isn't an Error to Be Fixed - Part One of Two

Go to Part Two    What is Tantra? (Hint: It Has Nothing to Do with Sex...)    Go to Kleshas: The Challenges of the Yogic Journey 

Go to The Willingness to Make an Error Can Lead to Growth    Go to a Taoist Story of Values and Choices

Go to Shiva Sutras I.8: More on Knowledge and Knowing    Go to Adhikara: A Process of Becoming Your Deepest Self

Go to Nirvana: A Modern View of an Ancient Mind-State    Go to The Nature of Desire    Go to The Value of Asking "Why?"

Go to Some Suggested Reading on Spirituality and Psychology    Go to Where Classic Star Trek Meets Current Science 

Refining Energetic Awareness: Internal Sensitivity and the Double-Good Heart - Part Three of Three

Go to Part One    Go to A Profoundly Simple Meditation Practice   

Go to The End of Time: Neither Apocalypse Nor Immortality - Yoga Sutra IV.33

Refining Energetic Awareness: Internal Sensitivity and the Double-Good Heart - Part Two of Three

Go to Part One    Go to Part Three    Go to Basic Energetics    Go to What are the Eight Limbs of Yoga?    Go to Shiva Sutra I.1 

Go to Most People Value "Goodness," but What Does That Mean?    Go to A Profoundly Simple Meditation Practice

Go to Potential Relief for the Persistently Overwhelmed    Go to A True Story of the Power of Meditation Practice

Refining Energetic Awareness: Internal Sensitivity and the Double-Good Heart - Part One of Three

Go to Part Two    Go to Basic Energetics    Go to What are the Eight Limbs of Yoga?    Go to a Profoundly Simple Meditation Practice

Go to Metaphors of Govinda (Krishna): Tending Compassionately to Our Wandering Minds    Go to The Myth of Multi-Tasking

Go to Potential Relief for the Persistently Overwhelmed    Go to Can Yoga Help Ease Suffering?    

Go to Some Suggested Reading on Mindfulness/Meditation & Anatomy/Physiology 

Go to Most People Value "Goodness," but What Does That Mean?    

Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment: Hip Widening (and Psoas Relief) - Part Three of Three

Go to Part One    Go to Part Two    Go to my Musings on Hip Alignment: Part Two (for more on Aligning the Femur Heads)

Go to my Musings on Hip Alignment: Part Four (for image of the Psoas)    Go to my Musings on Shoulder Alignment    

Go to Basic Energetics    Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment (Intro)    Go to Painful Muscle States

Go to Muscle States: Not Just Contraction and Expansion    Go to Skills of Turning Yoga Poses into Engines for Health and Healing

Go to Optimizing Downwards Facing Dog    Go to Non-Dogmatic Languaging for Yoga Class... and Life

Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment: Hip Widening (and Psoas Relief) - Part Two of Three

Go to Part Three    Go to Part One    Go to Chaturasana (with image of the pose)    Go to Muscle States: Not Just Contraction & Extenstion 

Go to Misalignments in Yoga Aren't "Wrong"... (for images of Sickled & Winged Feet)    Go to Painful Muscle States (for Tight & Taut)
    
Go to my Musings on Hip Alignment: Part One    Go to my Musings on Hip Alignment:  Part Four (for image of Psoas)

Go to Skills of Turning Yoga Poses into Engines for Health and Healing (for Flointed Foot image)    Go to Basic Energetics    

Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment: Hip Widening (and Psoas Relief) - Part One of Three

Go to Part Two    Go to Muscle States: Not Just Contraction and Extension    Go to Basic Energetics

Go to Bio-Mechanical Alignment: Intro    Go to Painful Muscle States (for Tight and Taut Muscle States)    

Go to my Musings on Hip Alignment (for image of Psoas Muscle)    Go to Changing Habits       

Non-Dogmatic Languaging for Yoga Class... and Life - Part Two of Two

Go to Part One    Go to Our Ancient Ancestors Didn't Have Electricity... but They Certainly Weren't Primitive

Go to My Sanskrit Primer    Go to Samskara: A Mostly Painful Aspect of Spiritual Evolution    Go to The Myth of Multi-Tasking

Go to Ishvara: An Exploration of Ancient Yogic Terms and Medieval English Overtones    Go to The Nature of Desire

Go to Misalignments in Yoga Aren't "Wrong," but Repeating Them May Cause Injury    Go to What is Yoga Anyway?

Go to Do Our Actions Reveal Our Deepest Intentions?    Go to Trika Philosophy OR Why One Plus One Equals Three

Go to Metaphors of Govinda (Krishna): Tending Compassionately to Our Wandering Minds    Go to What Exactly is Karma?

Go to On Twists, Turns and the Sustainability of Culture    Go to The Willingness to Make an Error Can Lead to Growth

Non-Dogmatic Languaging for Yoga Class... and Life - Part One of Two

Go to Part Two    Go to Dangers of Dogmatic Dualism 

Go to My First Writers Guild of America (WGA) Interview: "Hind Sight" 

Go to My Second WGA Interview: "Dragonheart: A New Beginning"

Go to My Craft of Writing Interview with Marv Wolfman (Part One)    Go to Wolfman Interview (Part Two)

Go to Sweetloopiness and Other Yogic Adventures in Hollywood    Go to Tribute to a Hollywood Legend: Dino DeLaurentiis

Go to Some Things are Meant-To-Be: A Musical Theater Love Story

Painful Muscle States: One General Feeling, Two Strategies for Relief - Part Two of Two

Go to Part One    Go to my Musings on Shoulder Alignment    Go to Everyone Loves a "Mommy Massage"... Guys, Too! 

Go to my Musings on Hip Alignment: Part Four (for an image of the Psoas)

Painful Muscle States: One General Feeling, Two Strategies for Relief - Part One of Two

Go to Part Two    Go to Muscle States: Not Just Contraction and Extension   

Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment: Basic Energetics    Go to Trika Philosophy OR Why One Plus One Equals Three

Refining Discernment: Mostly Led Yoga Classes and Mostly Taught Ones - Part 2

Go to Part One    Go to The Value of Asking "Why?"    Go to My Tantric Patanjali: Yoga Sutra II.2 (Weakening Misperceptions) 

Go to Misalignments in Yoga Aren't "Wrong," but Repeating Them May Cause Injury    Go to What is Yoga Anyway?

Go to Tantric Shaucha Practices are Choices That Support Healthy Personal Boundaries    Go to Traits of a True Teacher

Go to Some Suggested Reading on Mindfulness/Meditation and Anatomy/Physiology    Go to Yoga is More than Just Exercise

Go to On Behaviors of Healthy Teachers & Students: Shiva Sutra II.6    Go to Do Our Actions Reveal Our Deepest Intentions?
       

Refining Discernment: Mostly Led Yoga Classes and Mostly Taught Ones - Part 1

Go to Part Two    Go to the Skills of Turning Yoga Poses into Engines for Health and Healing    Go to The Value of Asking "Why?"

Go to Most People Value "Goodness," but What Does That Mean?    Go to More on the Three "Waves" of Yogic Philosophy

Go to Adhikara (Discipleship): A Process of Becoming Your Deepest Self    Go to Challenges of the Yogic Journey (Kleshas)

My Tantric Patanjali: Sutra I.2 (a Definition of Yoga)

Go to My Tantric Patanjali (Breathing New Life into Old Scriptures): Yoga Sutra I.1    Go to What is Tantra?

Go to A Willingness to Make an Error Can Lead to Growth    Go to My Tantric Patanjali: Yoga Sutra I.20

Go to A Yoga Controversy: What's the Definition of Yoga? (Alternate Translation & Commentary for Sutra I.2) 

Go to Dangers of Dogmatic Dualism    Go to Why Truths Aren't Always Real    Go to Non-Dogmatic Languaging 

Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment: Changing Habits

Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment (Intro)    Go to Samskara: A Mostly Painful Aspect of Spiritual Evolution

Go to Where Have All the Grown-Ups Gone?   Go to No One Stays Young Forever 

Go to Potential Relief for the Persistently Overwhelmed    Go to Painful Muscle States

Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment: Basic Energetics

Go to My Tantric Patanjali: Yoga Sutra I.2    Go to Trika Philosophy OR Why One Plus One Equals Three

Go to Skills of Turning Yoga Poses into Engines for Health and Healing    Go to Muscle States: Not Just Contraction and Extension

Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment (Intro)    Go to The Myth of Maya and Brahma: A Tantric Creation Story 

Go to Are You Down with Corpse Pose? (aka Shavasana)    Go to Painful Muscle States
  

My Tantric Hatha Yoga Pradipika: Chapters Three & Four

Go to My Tantric Pradipika: Intro    Go to My Tantric Pradipika: Chapter One    Go to My Tantric Pradipika: Chapter Two

Go to What is Hatha?    Go to A Yoga Controversy: My Tantric Patanjali: Sutra I.2    Go to Samskara

Go to My Tantric Patanjali: Sutra I.1    Go to Willingness to Make an Error Can Lead to Growth

The Evolutionary Benefits of Saying Yes to Negativity - Part Two of Two

Go to Part One    Go to The Value of Asking "Why?"    Go to Most People Value Goodness, but What Does That Mean?

Go to Yoga is a Practical Form of Spirituality    Go to Trika Philosophy OR Why One Plus One Equals Three

Go to Conscious Evolution & the Significance of the Evening Star    Go to Tantric Shaucha Practices

Go to A Rational Look at Magical Thinking    Go to My Sanskrit Primer

The Evolutionary Benefits of Saying Yes to Negativity - Part One of Two

Go to Part Two    Go to A Rational Look at Magical Thinking    Go to The Value of Asking "Why?" 

Go to Yoga is a Practical Form of Spirituality    Go to Trika Philosophy OR Why One Plus One Equals Three

Go to Tantric Shaucha Practices    Go to Conscious Evolution & the Significance of the Evening Star

Go to Most People Value "Goodness," but What Does That Mean?    Go to Dangers of Dogmatic Dualism

My Tantric Hatha Yoga Pradipika: Chapter Two

Go to My Tantric Pradipika: Chapters Three & Four    Go to My Tantric Pradipika: Intro    Go to My Tantric Pradipika: Chapter One

Go to What's the Spin on Chakras? (for more on Energetics & Nadis)    Go to Traits of a True Teacher

Samskara: A Mostly Painful Aspect of Spiritual Evolution

Go to Samavrittihi/Justice (for more on sama)    Go to Adhikara/Discipleship (for more on kara)    Go to What is Yoga Anyway?

Go to A Humble Thought Experiment on Dualistic Thinking    Go to Dr. King and the Temple of the Kingdom of God       

My Tantric Hatha Yoga Pradipika - Chapter One

Go to My Tantric Pradipika: Chapter Two    Go to My Tantric Pradipika: Intro   

Go to My Tantric Bhagavad Gita: Intro    Go to My Tantric Torah: Intro

Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment: Supine Twists - Part Two

Go to Part One    Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment (Overview)

    

Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment: Supine Twists - Part 1

Go to Part Two    Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment (Overview)    Go to Benefits of Bio-Mechanical Alignment: Twists 

Go to My Musings on Shoulder Alignment    Go to My Musings on Hip Alignment    Go to some Ankle Alignment

Go to some Knee Alignment    Go to Hip Widening