5 Ways to Level Up Your Yoga Practice
Looking to take your yoga practice to the next level? Here are 5 great ways to deepen your relationship to yoga.
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Tara Lemerise
- Aug 5
- 3 min
Which Way Does the Wind Blow?
This is part two of a post about prāṇa. Check out part one here. Yoga poses are the part of yoga that most folks think of when you say...
Tara Lemerise
- May 19
- 6 min
The Greatest Yoga Hack of All Time
Viparītakaraṇī isn't the Sanskrit name for legs-up-the-wall pose. It is an entire practice and one of the greatest yoga hacks of all time.
Tara Lemerise
- Mar 13
- 2 min
Protecting the Vulnerable
Matsyasana and the story that inspired the name of this pose can give us some inspiration for these challenging times.
Tara Lemerise
- Feb 12
- 6 min
An Ode to Restorative Yoga
My favorite kind of home makeover shows are where they find something really valuable and unexpected under some badly designed wall or...
Tara Lemerise
- Jan 7
- 3 min
Winning at Yoga and Risk
First things first. You can't "win" at yoga. That just gives me a clever title. My husband, though, ALWAYS wins at Risk. It's kind of...
Tara Lemerise
- Nov 4, 2021
- 3 min
Practicing Integrity
Here's why practicing integrity via garudasana - eagle pose - makes complete sense.
Tara Lemerise
- Sep 30, 2021
- 2 min
Compassion In Action
Half moon pose instant typically top of mind as a quintessential pose of compassion. This story might convince you otherwise.
Tara Lemerise
- Aug 9, 2021
- 3 min
The (Non)Violence of Our Times
Ahiṃsā pronounced exactly as it looks: short “a” sound, “him” as in the male pronoun, “sa” with short “a” sound at the end Non-violence....
Tara Lemerise
- Apr 15, 2021
- 2 min
How to Let it Be Easy
I was deeply inspired by a recent email I received from teacher, mother, writer and resting advocate, Octavia Raheem. She implored me and...
Tara Lemerise
- Dec 16, 2020
- 3 min
Confessions of a Bored Yogi
Confession: I used to avoid savasana. (I know, I know. The Restorative Yoga advocate is here saying I used to skip savasana. I can hardly...
Tara Lemerise
- Nov 5, 2020
- 3 min
What are your obstacles?
The other day a friend shared this: Does that sound familiar to you? It certainly does for me and I felt joyful about my friend’s feeling...
Tara Lemerise
- Sep 24, 2020
- 2 min
In Honor of Trees
A long time ago when I first began practicing yoga, I took a class billed as “advanced yoga”. I remember feeling nervous when I signed up...
Tara Lemerise
- Sep 4, 2020
- 2 min
Truth and Change
The other day I noticed that my daughter had moved the clock in her room. When I asked her about it she told me that the nightlight on...
Tara Lemerise
- Mar 2, 2020
- 4 min
Emptying the Sea: A Story of Tenacity, Community, and Compassion
I was in college studying philosophy and comparative religion when I had this revelation about myths and folklore and stories of all...
Tara Lemerise
- Jan 31, 2020
- 2 min
Is gecko yoga a thing yet?
Last Sunday I had just returned home from my annual winter Restorative Yoga retreat and I was dragging my feet about unloading all of the...
Tara Lemerise
- Aug 28, 2019
- 2 min
The Side Show
Many years ago, I heard this piece on NPR about how multitasking is a delusion. We think we are doing more than thing at once but what’s...
Tara Lemerise
- Apr 30, 2019
- 2 min
The Art of Yielding
Will and I were in the car a few days ago, about to merge onto 495 when the traffic in front of us came to a dead stop on the ramp. As we...
Tara Lemerise
- Apr 1, 2019
- 2 min
Earth. Breath. Beauty.
Jillian Pransky shares this story in her brilliant book Deep Listening. It’s been on my mind a lot lately. A Buddhist community in France...
Tara Lemerise
- Oct 1, 2018
- 2 min
Nourish Yourself and Hiss
I know I promised no more with the yoga stories about animals but I just couldn’t help myself. This is one of my favorites and it feels...