Author Archives: Barbara Blum

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 or money or energy, but you find yourself wanting to practice at home yet lacking the motivation and/or discipline to do so. Well if you’ve […]

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 I am talking about something different. I am talking about surrendering to something you fear, but doing so with full, conscious, joyful consent. I recently […]

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. No doubt, I have found great value in my inherent ability to accept things as they are without worry, but I have also realized that […]

These are the pieces buried in sand, settled precariously at the bottom of my ocean. It is time to detach, drift upwards and move towards the surface, compelled by the light. Hidden bits, secretly concealed or perhaps cleverly disguised. These, I measure and dose, careful not to extend that which I perceive you need not […]

Yoga: What’s is All About? The other day someone asked me what yoga is about. Not in general, but for me personally. And in that moment I was stopped by the realization that I couldn’t possibly give a simple answer to what my yoga practice means to me. To say that it’s an ever-evolving, deeply […]

When Yoga Let’s You Down What happens when you have been so enamored by the gifts of yoga… by the personal progress and transformation, by the growth and synthesis of knowledge into your being, only to find that one day you wake up and realize your old demons are still there, tapping you on the […]

“Let your stability create expansion. Never let your expansion steal from your stability.” In my yoga teacher training we talked a lot about the stability of a pose vs. the expansion within that pose. This dichotomy is one of the key elements of any yoga practice, and metaphorically, for life… the stable, meticulously controlled foundation […]

Awhile back I made a decision to never say never. Let me rephrase that. I consciously decided to eradicate the word ‘never’ from my vocabulary. And this simple act has brought on a pretty profound change in perspective and subsequent action. Because what I have learned is this: the possibilities are always endless, even the […]

Welcome to my little corner of the web. Whether you are a seasoned yoga practitioner, a newbie to the practice or someone who has no idea what this is all about, I hope you will take some time to look around, discover something new and leave this domain a bit more inspired than when you […]

Blogging as a Way to Share Perspective “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” Have you ever consciously, purposefully shifted your perspective in order to see something different? Yoga is about finding your truth. We are given a whole lot of guidelines along the way… from the […]