keep your projections to yourself: encountering jung's shadow in group fitness
Maybe a yoga class is the last place you think you'll be running into what Jung called "the shadow." If you've taken a group fitness...
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Laura Wenger
- Apr 20, 2023
- 4 min
what is good posture, anyway?
and can we breathe well in that shape? Many of us learned how to hold our bodies from family or authority figures at a young age. "Pull...
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Laura Wenger
- Mar 21, 2023
- 3 min
yoga teachers: are we teaching presence or inviting dissociation?
In my last post, we took a look at what we’re actually trying to accomplish when we sit down to meditate. TLDR (too long, didn’t read?):...
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Laura Wenger
- Mar 21, 2023
- 5 min
practicing presence: embodiment, dissociation & meditation
Why do we meditate? Or, if we don’t, why do we think we should meditate? For many folks, the goal is to be more mindful. We want to enjoy...
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Laura Wenger
- Dec 22, 2022
- 4 min
will movement cure your anxiety?
If you’re someone who works with anxiety, you already know how overwhelming it can be. This is especially true for folks with a history...
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Laura Wenger
- Jan 1, 2021
- 4 min
born this way
One of the most important lessons I learned from yoga? That there are some things about myself that can't be changed-- and that's...
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Laura Wenger
- Oct 13, 2020
- 4 min
understanding cultural appropriation
Yoga, meditation and other somatic practices have long been part of indigenous communities' ways of healing and spirituality. If we're...
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Laura Wenger
- Oct 6, 2020
- 3 min
real safety is anti-fragility
as practitioners, we can empower folks to experience their own strength (rather than fear their fragility) If you've taken a yoga class...
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Laura Wenger
- Sep 9, 2020
- 7 min
finding your footing in warrior 1
a long, nerdy post about alignment in this classic shape Warrior 1: it sounds so fundamental, so simple, like, the most basic thing you...
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Laura Wenger
- May 1, 2020
- 3 min
"this should feel good"
One of the defining moments in my yoga career happened in a far-away town, where I was visiting and attending a yin class. It was an...
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Laura Wenger
- Jun 1, 2019
- 4 min
students: how to make any yoga class more accessible
It’s summer! If you’re traveling this year, you may be leaving your favorite classes and teachers behind. If you’re intimidated by the...
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Laura Wenger
- May 1, 2019
- 3 min
a plea for clarity in yoga class descriptions
Imagine you are a prospective yoga student. Looking at class schedules online, you see a lot of “vinyasa” yoga, and you wonder what it is....
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Laura Wenger
- May 1, 2019
- 4 min
for teachers: how to create a more accessible vinyasa class
One of the most challenging things about being a yoga teacher is teaching the dreaded “mixed-level class.” It might look like this– In...
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