Stepping with attention/awareness on the stones of life and resting in the spaciousness vast of the horizon. Recently hearing the teachings of wise Buddhist teachers Pema Chodron and Sharon Salzberg inspires me as they teach tools for how to live our Yoga practice moment-to-moment in our lives.

Equanimity does not come easily to our minds natural tendency to flow and wander into the past and future.We’ve evolved towards “survival” with fight/flight/freeze more easily triggered than the rest/restore rejuvinate mode that allows for Equanimity. Our practice cultivates that mode.

This photo was taken last Sunday in Irvington on the bank of the Hudson River after Westchester Meditation Centers’s last meeting before the summer break. Teachers at this center were longtime former students of Tibetan Buddhist Lama Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche who was also my teacher years ago in my early and mid 20’s.

Yoga Friends,

It will take time to learn how to blog and best to keep learning cheerfully with patience and perseverance just as we learn to do in our Yoga practice and not be attached to outcomes. We learn stepping out of our comfort zones and through our mistakes.

Sutra 1.14 from Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras: Long, uninterrupted, alert practice is the firm foundation for restraining the fluctuations ( of our mind’s constantly moving mercurial thoughts)

Through Yoga practice we learn to restrain/quiet our reactive minds and to Be Here Now, to live in the present as we connnect mind/body/senses/breath/self.

Welcome to Iyengar Yoga Scarsdale Nancy Kardon’s first blog post. Occasionally, I will share what I learn from my teachers, my practice, and the situations and people I meet in life. Join me as I learn how to blog.

Cheers and Namaste,

Nancy