Yoga of Witchcraft 2: BKS Iyengar

Photo of BKS Iyengar

When I first thought about writing about yoga on this blog, I didn’t plan for it to be a regular thing, per se. I figured maybe once or twice a year I would write an article about how yoga was affecting my spiritual practice, but that would pretty much be it. It turns out I have a lot more to say, so this will be the second in a monthly series of yoga posts. YAY!!

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The Yoga of Witchcraft

Five people practicing tree pose next to a pool

This is going to be the first in a series of posts I plan on yoga. I’ve been doing yoga for the last twenty years and consider it an integral part of my spiritual practice.

When I was little, my grandmother was way into yoga. She had books and did the poses along with a TV show that was on public television at the time. I want to say it was Lilias yoga’s show, but I can’t say for certain. I kind of thought of it as exercise for old ladies who couldn’t do aerobics (sorry, Grandma!). Later on, when my daughter was preschool age, I impulsively picked up one of Gaiam’s VHS tapes with Rodney Yee. I liked the sequence in it so much I started doing it before circling. It really put you in the physical and mental space to do the work in the circle.

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