Restore Ourselves, Restore the World
Coming into April 2021, the month of Earth Day, a little more than a year after the world pandemic began, we may feel more than a little...
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Cynthia Haas
- Mar 31, 2021
- 1 min
Time to Come In
Those dreaded words when I was growing up...."Time to come in!" Especially when the days lingered longer, there was never a tiring of...
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Cynthia Haas
- Mar 21, 2021
- 2 min
Death and Rebirth
Spring and the Easter season bring about thoughts of renewal, rebirth, and revival for a lot of us. Scenes of butterflies, buttercups,...
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Cynthia Haas
- Mar 11, 2021
- 1 min
Spring Cleaning
Here in the Northern Hemisphere of this great big world, it's time when the cold melts away to warm breezes and frozen ground begins to...
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Cynthia Haas
- Sep 22, 2020
- 2 min
Autumn: Summon Your Shadow Side
This is an excerpt from "Autumnal Equinox: Ritual Through Yoga" (author Laura Hand, September 14, 2016 at gaia.com, see the full article...
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Cynthia Haas
- Sep 15, 2020
- 2 min
Mind Flip: Changing "I got to" to "I get to"
Okay, grammar police, simmer down. I know "I got to" is not grammatically correct, but it's an easy way to remember this "mind flip." ...
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Cynthia Haas
- Sep 7, 2020
- 2 min
Interdependence Days: Week Five, Our Spiritual Connection
Intention: The ultimate purpose of yoga is to quieten our minds and bodies to be able to hear our higher calling more clearly, and...
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Cynthia Haas
- Jul 21, 2020
- 2 min
Interdependence Days: Week Four, Our Body Connection
Intention: Awareness of interconnection in and outside ourselves One often stops taking for granted the amazing operating capacity of the...
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Cynthia Haas
- Jul 14, 2020
- 1 min
Interdependence Days: Week Three, Always Connected with Community
Intention: Awareness of interconnectedness with our community. Picture one of your favorite foods in your mind. With the imagination of...
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Cynthia Haas
- Jul 7, 2020
- 1 min
Interdependence Days: Week Two, the Elements
Intention: Connection with and gratitude for the elements of the Earth I remember one yoga practice when I was a beginning yogi (and...
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Cynthia Haas
- Jul 5, 2020
- 2 min
Cosmic Gifts: Interdependence Days: Week One, The Cosmos
Intention: Connection with unconditional love and gifts. We do not need to travel far to find a warm, energetic, and light-filled energy...
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Cynthia Haas
- Jul 5, 2020
- 1 min
Happy Interdependence Days!
Intention: Connection with others and ourselves. We are over it. We can feel it in ourselves, and we can feel it in each other. A...
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Cynthia Haas
- Jun 12, 2020
- 1 min
Keeping the Peace
Intention: Keeping internal peace during trying times. Most of us at one time or another have ventured into a love/hate relationship to...
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Cynthia Haas
- May 24, 2020
- 2 min
Homeostasis
Intention: Homeostasis (Yama: Brahmacharya.) Homeostasis is defined as " "(https://www.yourdictionary.com/homeostasis.) With the...
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Cynthia Haas
- May 5, 2020
- 3 min
Sweet Surrender
Intention: Ishvara Pranidhana (Surrender.) Surrounded. Surrounded by news of COVID-19, surrounded by fear, and surrounded within our own...
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Cynthia Haas
- Apr 29, 2020
- 2 min
Invisibility in Practice
Week of 9/29/2019 Intention: Tapas (purification through discipline.) Teaching my son sign language sounded like such a great idea when...
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Cynthia Haas
- Apr 22, 2020
- 3 min
Open Heart, Present Mind
Intention: Ahimsa (Non-harm); Heart opening. Physical exercise was my first goal of beginning yoga. In my early 30's, my usual week...
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Cynthia Haas
- Mar 31, 2020
- 2 min
Let The Pose Get Into You
Intention: Acceptance, Satya (truthfulness). The famous sculptor, Michelangelo, is credited for saying, "“The sculpture is already...
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Cynthia Haas
- Mar 28, 2020
- 2 min
Yoga: Lost in Space, Shelter In Place
Intention: Grounding, finding center. Niyama: Svadyaya (self-study.) In light of the recent events of COVID-19, we may feel a little...
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Cynthia Haas
- Mar 8, 2020
- 1 min
Awakening
Week of 3/1-3/7/2020. Intention: Awakening, Niyama: Ishvara Pranidhana (devotion to a Higher Power.) The plants feel it, the animals...
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