We are in a golden age of rethinking classical yoga. I love this, as I believe yoga was never meant to be stagnant. As physiology and movement science make their way into our shalas, we can better meet the goal of a lifelong practice. But, let’s make no mistake, it’s all yoga. For years, I […]
Bethany Eanes
Bethany Eanes is a yoga teacher, writer, and owner of The Yoga Harbor in Torrance, CA. Life has taken her from a small town outside of Pittsburgh to the beaches of Los Angeles by way of St. Louis, where she met her favorite debate partner and turned him into her husband. She is equally enthusiastic about breakfast burritos and sausage dogs as she is parallel sentence structure and external shoulder rotation.
Don’t make gods into demons
“Gods become demons when you use them to keep yourself in that room with the doors and windows closed.” – A Guide to Compassionate Living by Pema Chodron. I cooked my Nana’s recipes for Thanksgiving this year. By that I mean I cooked my Nana’s recipes, because my mother and my other Gram don’t have […]
Healed
I believe we will all be healed and made whole through love. Healing is the most beautiful thing we are capable of; watching a cut scab over and scar shows us the intelligence and resilience of this flesh we were born into. Yet we are never healed back to the same thing we once were. […]