by Carmen Champion | Mar 20, 2024 | Carmen Champion, Weekly Letter
As we go through the practice, alone on the mat. Sometimes finding our minds quiet, sometimes not. The practice asks us to observe, but it doesn’t tell us what to examine exactly. Your teacher offers you things to consider and its up to you to assign what that idea...
by Carmen Champion | Mar 13, 2024 | Carmen Champion, Weekly Letter
In late Middle English the word create was derived from the idea that something was ‘born out of nothing.’ And idea, a story, art. Even our postures came from spontaneous movement from deep meditation. The build of prana (energy) in the body caused it to begin to move...
by Carmen Champion | Feb 20, 2024 | Asana, Carmen Champion, Weekly Letter, Yogic Journey
The Bhagavad Gita says, ‘Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.’ The word journey is tricky. In any journey, it implies a destination with stops along the way. Maybe journey is the word because so many yogis were nomadic. Journey is mentioned...
by Carmen Champion | Feb 13, 2024 | Carmen Champion, Lifestyle, Weekly Letter
This past holiday season my neighbors and I decided to coordinate our porch decorations to tie the neighborhood together. It was a cute candy cane theme that was easy to do and be creative. We enjoyed the idea that our block would feel unified, festive and bright....
by Carmen Champion | Jan 30, 2024 | Asana, Carmen Champion, Lifestyle, Weekly Letter, Yogic Journey
I sat down to paint the other day. I’ve been watching a few artists work a medium I enjoy and whose prints I have bought for my home. The technique is ink and watercolors. I love watching the way their hand floats across the page, they make it look so easy and...
by Carmen Champion | Jan 23, 2024 | Carmen Champion, Lifestyle, Weekly Letter, Yogic Journey
I had a meeting last week I was kinda dreading. It wasn’t the person, but the topic. I had put a project on the back burner and I was going into a meeting where I was going to have to admit that. I had built up the outcome in my head (as we do) and was certain I was...
