Practicing Freedom
The Bird Who Flew Free Once upon a time there was a kind-hearted, wealthy man who had a beautiful talking bird as a companion. The bird...
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Tara Lemerise
- Sep 6, 2022
- 9 min
Restorative Yoga to Combat Eye Strain
Screen time dominates our time, wreaking havoc on our eyes and our nervous system. This Restorative Yoga sequence with a headwrap will help.
Tara Lemerise
- Sep 1, 2022
- 3 min
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.
Tara Lemerise
- Aug 5, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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
- Feb 12, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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 14, 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
- Feb 18, 2021
- 3 min
We might need compassion instead of solutions.
Is your default compassion when someone is going through a tough time? Mine definitely isn’t! The other day a friend texted me and I...
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
- Oct 7, 2020
- 3 min
The Essence of Stillness
My son Will is a dreamer, a thinker, a creative mind kind of kid. Sometimes I’ll catch him just sitting still, staring at this elaborate...
Tara Lemerise
- Sep 3, 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
- Jun 30, 2019
- 2 min
What We Get When We Fail
The Swamis once gave me an assignment: Make a list of all of the times you wish you made a different choice. Sounds easy, right? At first...
Tara Lemerise
- Jan 31, 2018
- 2 min
What's love got to do with it?
I recently heard about a church group who started what they call Valentine’s Day of Compassion about 10 years ago. In an answer to the...
Tara Lemerise
- Nov 30, 2017
- 3 min
The Yogi's GPS
I’ve driven to my hometown in York, PA from the DC area more times than I can possibly count. Certainly hundreds – maybe thousands? – of...
Tara Lemerise
- Aug 1, 2017
- 2 min
Making Space for Contentment
I’ve just returned from leading a 4-day summer retreat that was all about cultivating contentment. Santosha (sometimes spelled samtosha...
Tara Lemerise
- Apr 28, 2017
- 3 min
There's More to Strength Than Big Biceps
This past month I’ve noticed a fair amount of discussion of “shows of strength”, from politics to fitness. It’s got me thinking about...
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