by Carmen Champion | Jun 25, 2024 | Carmen Champion, Weekly Letter
I tried looking at groupings of friends we have in our life. Articles had some very interesting suggestions for categorization and didn’t include family, which can be the hardest category to forgive, so we definitely need to include them. One simple diagram used a...
by Carmen Champion | Jun 18, 2024 | Carmen Champion, Weekly Letter
I struggle with the word ‘forgiveness’. The implication negates the difficult process by whittling it down to a single word. By doing so, it seems to undermine the power of the process. Some people are easier to forgive than others. Sometimes forgiveness takes a...
by Carmen Champion | May 1, 2024 | Carmen Champion, Weekly Letter
So what does the light and dark show us? Much like strengthening a muscle, exercising the light and the dark invites us to become more sensitive and aware. To observe the delicate balance of both when we are in the moment so the moment doesn’t take us over. Exploring...
by Carmen Champion | Apr 24, 2024 | Carmen Champion, Weekly Letter
There is something very loving about this idea of how yoga can approach you in ways that defy words. How it can be more a feeling than anything and when you hit the stride of it all you just move as though in a dream. Colors are different, and what you see and feel...
by Carmen Champion | Apr 17, 2024 | Carmen Champion, Weekly Letter
Early in my teaching career, I was talking about the concept of light & dark in a general sense to a group of students. One of my students was very upset by this concept and expressed their belief yoga was only good and happy and peaceful. The thought of yoga...
