The Feathered Pipe has been blessed to host many of the foremost teachers, guides and wisdom holders within the realm of yoga, meditation, spirituality, health and wellness during our four-plus decades of existence. The Feathered Pipe Blog offers you the opportunity to explore more deeply their thoughts and insights for opening to experience a more healthful and fulfilling life.
A great deal of emphasis has been placed by the traditions on self- knowledge, the kind of knowledge that transforms and heals the soul. The words written over the ancient library of Ozymandias, the king of Egypt, meant The Soul’s Cure. Self-knowledge is a prerequisite to, if not synonymous with, knowledge of God. Read More
Our natural state is balance, a sacred space where we experience equanimity within our own beings and true harmony with our surroundings. The more attuned we become, the better we get to know ourselves, and the more instinctively we can make choices that lead to the experience of greater evenness in our lives. Read More
In the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the second chapter is filled with teachings about the astanga or eight-limbed yoga system. The astanga system is presented as a series of practices which begin with external limbs like ethical precepts and move toward more internal limbs like meditation. Read More
Rather than falling prey to self-judgment and trying to set unreasonable expectations of yourself that may set you up for failure, consider some simple and achievable changes you can make to improve your life and health for the long term. Read More
As nerve cells break down, waste products can collect in the brain tissue, leading to new and unwanted growths called plaques and tangles. You can mitigate some of these changes through practices that foster brain health, including exercise, sleeping well, and continued learning. Read More
A beautiful larger woman, somewhere in her 50's, walked into my center today with her friend. I could tell that she was apprehensive walking in the door, but when she saw me, a well-rounded 50 plus year-young teacher and the studio owner, she relaxed a little. Read More
The question of what yoga is, and who has a right to claim any authority over it, has always been a heated debate among earnest yogis. But one thing is for sure, if our definition of yoga is contingent on another person, especially someone who is revealed to be something other than what we predicated our understanding on, our sense of yoga will easily become confused or destroyed. Read More
Energy Medicine Yoga founder Lauren Walker shares her experience of meeting Energy Medicine master Donna Eden, the life circumstance that brought her to create EMYoga, and the miracle of healing deep-seeded trauma. Read More
You are not the body in the sense that “you” existed before the body and you will exist after the body. Your being-ness is not dependent on the body. Its being-ness is dependent on yours, however. When you move on, it loses its energy and fades away. Read More
In the practice of Iyengar yoga, the therapeutic and meditative benefits are derived through a progressive system involving the sequencing of the asanas (poses) and pranayama (yogic practice involving breath control), attention to the alignment and technique of the practices and the timing in the practices. Read More
It turns out the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) that connects brain to body is a two-way street. If I am anxious and nervous or stressed out by events in my life or simply the thoughts about those events, my brain, via the nerves of the ANS, will likely turn on the Sympathetic part of that system. But the cool thing... Read More
"Om. Namaste." I fold my hands in prayer, in reverence. The left palm meeting the right palm and a soft bow of my head. I show you that I come in peace so that you’ll lay down your weapons — be them words, actions or thoughts. My eyes meet yours and I see you. I see beyond your masks, judgments and projections. I see, you. Read More