Celebration!

We're back to our regular weekly schedule and just in time to celebrate three upcoming events: the summer solstice, Pride, and, as of yesterday, our newest federal holiday, Juneteenth.  Yoga has an affinity with all of these days: We start every session with some form of sun salute evoking and cultivating the inner light that radiates through our practice; yoga always intensifies self-awareness and gratitude for who we are in all of our complexity; Yoga is about liberation--on a practical level, liberation from stiffness and lack of strength; in a more profound way, the practice can awaken us to happiness as it helps to free us from what the Ashtanga opening invocation calls the "poison of conditioned existence."