Excerpted from Parabola Spring 2012: The Burning World, by David Ulrich and Laura Dunn Recently, we collaborated on a series of classes in creativity and yoga. “Why?” — is the question we are asked frequently. Why creativity and yoga? Why would a yoga teacher and practitioner (Laura) collaborate in a series of classes with an [...]

“Meditation does not involve discontinuing one’s relationship with oneself and looking for a better person or searching for possibilities of reforming oneself and becoming a better person. The practice of meditation is a way of continuing one’s confusion, chaos, aggression, and passion—but working with it, seeing it from the enlightened point of view. That is [...]

“Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep; but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.” —Walt Whitman A list compiled from our own thought and experience. This is not meant to be [...]

Ashtanga Books Yoga Mala, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga, Lino Miele Ashtanga Yoga: Practice & Philosophy, Gregor Maehle Ashtanga Yoga: As it Is, Matthew Sweeney Ashtanga Yoga: The Definitive Step-by-Step Guide to Dynamic Yoga, John Scott Guruji: A Portrait of Pattabhi Jois Through the Eyes of His Students, Guy Donahue & Eddie Stern Classic [...]