Blog – Page 33 – Matthew Remski

April 6, 2014

No Magic to Protect You in “Wild Thing”, And No Magical Way in Which Yoga Changes the World /// Plus We Heart Be Scofield

Claiming that all it takes for Wild Thing to be therapeutic is the right attitude and some pranic pixie dust is not that different from saying that the good feelings and intentions we privately generate from yoga practice in general are enough to heal a world that we ourselves are actively and ignorantly fucking up.

April 2, 2014

WAWADIA Update #3 /// “Wild Thing” Pose: Impossible, Injurious, Poignant

My therapist once said that a relationship can only really begin after the romance is over. I’m beginning to think that yoga is what occurs when people become disenchanted with yoga.

March 29, 2014

20 Suggestions for Doing Yoga Philosophy Today

It used to be that the unexamined life was not worth living. Now, the unexamined life is killing the planet. Staying mindful of our collective condition will keep things on point and our heads out of the stars.

March 25, 2014

From Rejection/Assertion to Rejection/Possibility: Remixing Śaṅkara at 30K feet

Śaṅkara's tender age and what I at least hear as the naïveté of his poem got me thinking about the difference between the adolescent rhythm of rejection/assertion, versus what comes with a little more life experience. And what comes, transhistorically, with the refinement of the sciences.