Author Archives: Barbara Blum

A Tale of Transformation I’m about to share something deeply personal, yet so profound that I have no choice. It’s a tale of transformation that, perhaps on the surface doesn’t […]

This is my third trip to India in as many years, and I can’t help but recall during the planning of my maiden voyage here when, on a whim, I […]

Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy,by Sadhguru I first heard of Sadhguru a few years ago when, looking for inspiring music for my own practice, I stumbled upon a […]

Triangle as Teacher: Finding Your Inner WisdomI did it. I finally figured out triangle pose. As a yoga instructor for the last few years and as a practitioner for well […]

Stepping into FearFear is a theme that, over the last couple years of my life, keeps popping up again and again. I wrote about it extensively after my trip to […]

This is my fourth trip to India, and while I had a fair amount of things I wanted to do during my six months of travel, spending a huge chunk […]

Resistance vs Avoidance Which is your tendency? As humans we automatically contract away from that which is uncomfortable and as such, we have a natural tendency to approach a difficulty […]

Building a Joyful Home PracticeSo you get to the occasional or somewhat regular yoga class, but still, you feel like it’s not quite enough. Maybe it’s in consideration of time […]

Have you ever surrendered? I mean, complete and total surrender. Normally, I think we view this (and experience this) with the feeling of defeat. I give up. You win. But […]

Setting intention has never been one of my strong suits. I have always found myself unconsciously in the passive role of letting things come to me of their own accord. […]