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I'm excited to announce a Ghee-making, ayurvedic food cooking workshop on the 28th, NEXT SATURDAY!! in NE PDX.  (Salt, Fire & Time on NW 21st between Therman & Vaughn ST -- MAP )  We'll be making Ghee and Kitchari.  In addition to this, we will be sipping some ginger tea and enjoying some other freshly prepared side dishes for a sit-n'-talk on the principals of this ancient system that works in harmony with the 3 forces of the universe.  Bring a pound of organic salt-free butter and a pint mason jar & we will all be able to add the same together in one pot so everyone will have their own ghee (worth double what it costs as butter) to take home. :)  Want a spice mix to help balance out your dosha? We'll make that too.   SUPER FUN!!!  Hope to see you there.  More info:  http://www.yogamagick.com/ayurveda-101 Aside from just butter on the stove, here's what is lined up so far: (Approx.) MENU:         ...

Do you practice Viveka ?   ....If you practice yogasana (the physical practice) and really feel it is important to get a breast enhancement..... You might want to consider the wider range of yoga, being that it is not only a practice that caters to the physique.   Viveka is a virtue of Jnana yoga (yoga of knowledge); one of the 4 means to salvation and is described as " discrimination between the real and the unreal, between the permanent and the impermanent, between the Self and the non-Self."    What I am about to say may not be very comforting if your attitude toward yourself is that you need larger breasts.  Before you start to scream accusations at me for not being very nice about what I am saying, know that if you ever were to meet some of the first yogis in India, you would undoubtedly be uncomfortable and perhaps even frightened. We are not only compassionate beings but messengers of truth. Truthful information which is not always light-hearted an...

posted  20 hours ago  by Katherine Russ    Hello yoga magickians!  It is I, your humble hostess.   I have decided to start posting more regular photos of me in poses,  so here is the one I decided to do today: Padahastasana or "Feet to hands pose", also known by some as "gorilla pose".  I suppose because your knuckles appear to be "dragging" on the ground and  gorillas  do indeed use their knuckles  for transportation.   When I asked a gorilla's opinion on what she thought of this pose  as a reference to her people, she had this to say:  . ........I think that this actually means "You're number one!" Thanks, Gorilla!

  <--  some Ganesha flare ;) posted  Mar 26, 2012 7:36 AM If you have not yet seen it, do check out the  Ghee and Kitchari  Ayurveda workshop !   If you are wondering what any of these  words mean, let me give you a brief rundown.    Ayurveda   basically translates as the "wisdom of long life". It's an ancient  holistic practice that can also be described as "humorism", addressing the 3 doshas (humors) in the body. These three doshas  are known as Vata (wind/movement), Pita (Fire/transformation), and Kapha  (Water/adhesion).     Ghee  is also known as  clarified butter.  Butter that has had the elements that  cause it to go rancid (oxidize) removed from it, giving you all the healthy  benefits of butter  (Forget what commercials have been saying. It  is  good for you!) without the down side of  the goop that makes  your butter turn brown a...

posted  Mar 26, 2012 7:08 AM The gluteous maximus are massive muscles that comprise for  a large portion  of or nearly all of our butts.  We really don't  have much of one when we are  born for perhaps not so obvious  reasons.  The gluteous maximus are reponsible  for the extension  of the legs.  Even after we are born, we are still unfolding into a fully extended human being, starting from seemingly random   jerks, as our nerves  continue to extend and connect. Once the  vital nerves have established, we are able  to send more deliberate  actions from our brains to our bodies with our will. We  finally  begin crawling (our first phys. exercise routine) to build the glute  muscles until the point where  can stand  by pulling  ourselves up  by some  furniture .  All of this normally takes at least 10  months after birth ...

posted  Mar 11, 2012 6:21 PM   Have any fun daylight savings stories to share?    This morning probably at about 3:00AM, our smoke alarm inexplicably went off. BOY,  did my partner SPRING forth  into action! I sure feel safe that I can expect such impressive  vigilance from my ex-Marine!  I  Wonder if we didn't realize our  alarm has a special feature  that gives you a fire drill on daylight savings night?  ....Yeah right.  Probably just time to get a  new one.      Things like this sure get me thinking critically about what we have created for ourselves in  this world and how many "systems"  lend to trust issues.  For instance, does that "test"  really work? All you do is push a button and it goes "BEEP!".    Ah, smoke alarms.  They go off when you're cooking blackened Cajun catfish, burning  incense/candles, et al.... ...

posted  Feb 26, 2012 9:37 AM   Hello yogi magickians!  I am just updating here about what I am doing lately.   I have not been doing much sadhana lately!   I really enjoyed having specific exercises to do consistently every day, so I might go back to doing some more in the near  future.  In the mean time I am keeping with my "Ashtanga-inspired Hatha-Vinyasa" practice and teachings.  ;)    Yes.   I often practice and teach a variety of "schools" of yoga and steadily am bringing even more Iyengar-esque elements  into classes too; really setting up the poses solidly from the foundation of feet and legs (or arms/head if inverted), all the way  to the gaze (drishti). Also, I am having one heck of a time making my google calendar public, so here I will recap my present regular class schedule:  Classes I am presently teaching       (  yoga pilates NE [ website ]...