Emily Garrett Yoga

“I find that what I experience after a yin yoga session is different from the feeling after yang yoga, or after other exercise forms.  It reminds me of the feeling I get from practicing tai chi.   It is not so much the presence of great stretch, or heat, or blood pounding through the body, or anything outwardly obvious like that.  In fact, it is notable more for the lack of any soreness, tightness, or hindrances.  Its as if everything is simply and calmly as it should be.  Its understated, and hard to pin down, or quantify.  The joints work, the posture finds itself to … Continue Reading

Explore the magical White Mountains with me this spring.  More info here.

“Why wouldn’t someone want to feel fragile?  I think fragility is one of the most underrated things as a human being.  I believe that we’re doing yoga so we can be strong enough to be fragile.  I mean, we are fragile, and we’re living in a society where we could easily be destroyed-psychologically, emotionally and physically-so why shouldn’t we feel fragile?  Life is on a silk thread hanging like a cocoon from a tree, and it’s a fragile thing.  I don’t think yoga is to keep you from feeling fragile.  I think it’s to enable you to be consciously fragile … Continue Reading