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I am So Grateful For the Sceptic in Me (so that tech bros turned gurus can't steal my money or my sanity)

May 12 min read

I am So Grateful For the Sceptic in Me (so that tech bros turned gurus can't steal my money or my sanity)

SOME DISCLAIMERS I’ve never seen any of my past lives. I don’t believe yoga asana will get you enlightened. I don’t think drinking...

Victoria Larsson

Apr 23 min read

What makes 'My' Yoga Yoga?

Right after ‘graduating’ my first 200 hour yoga teacher training, I threw myself into teaching. Thinking back on it now, I’m struck by...

Victoria Larsson

Mar 135 min read

So You Wanna Be a Yoga Teacher V

These days, it seems that yoga has become a service that you purchase in the same way that you might purchase a massage, a manicure or a...

Victoria Larsson

Feb 263 min read

No Self Feels Much Groovier than MYself

Most people who I encounter on the so called 'spiritual' path, have come to it because they want to change themselves. They want to feel...

Victoria Larsson

Feb 33 min read

PRO-SOCIAL SOCIAL MEDIA II

The most pro-social social media use is to not use it. But as always, there's 'bad' in the 'good' and 'good' in the 'bad.' There...

Victoria Larsson

Jan 214 min read

PRO-SOCIAL SOCIAL MEDIA USE I

If there's such a thing, I'm pretty sure that for most of us, that would mean getting off these brain drain apps and platforms...

Victoria Larsson

Jan 103 min read

IS MEDITATION FOR EVERYONE?

I recently got that question while teaching a retreat. I answered no. I don't believe in free will. So how could I believe that...

Victoria Larsson

Dec 13, 20233 min read

DON'T TRUST SOCIAL MEDIA GURUS

"People who intentionally become famous – I mean people who, after a little taste of fame, want more and more of it – are, and I honestly...

Victoria Larsson

Jul 13, 20234 min read

WHAT THE FUCK IS YOGA???

These days yoga seems to be whatever anyone says it is. In that sense YOGA is kind of like WOMAN :) Language is always just a...

Best yoga teachers and studios in Mallorca

Victoria Larsson

Jun 22, 20233 min read

Best yoga teachers and studios in Mallorca

I live and work on an island to which millions of holiday makers come every year. These days, many of these holidaymakers want to do yoga...

So You Want to Become a Yoga Teacher (Part IV)

Victoria Larsson

Mar 27, 20234 min read

So You Want to Become a Yoga Teacher (Part IV)

It's been a few years now, since I started writing this 'series' on wanting to become a yoga teacher. Much of what I previously wrote, I...

Victoria Larsson

Sep 9, 20212 min read

We Hallucinate Our Own Reality

Jim Morrison sang: People are Strange, When You're a Stranger. What the Buddha discovered under that Banyan tree, back when he woke up...

Victoria Larsson

Jul 13, 20217 min read

The Allure of Teaching Yoga

I've had the honour and privilege to work with many new teachers via the mentorship program I occasionally offer. When I ask mentees why...

Victoria Larsson

Jun 1, 20214 min read

WHY PRACTICE MEDITATION?

You can only connect the dots when you look back. At the age of 19 I had an acid trip that forever changed the trajectory of my life....

Victoria Larsson

May 10, 20212 min read

The Core of Yoga

I hated physical education in school. I sucked at every single ball sport, I sucked at track and field. I could not run fast. I was very...

Breaking free from Plastic (or trying to)

Victoria Larsson

Apr 21, 20213 min read

Breaking free from Plastic (or trying to)

This morning I woke up to the news of the guilty verdict of Derek Chauvin -- a piece of news I had eagerly awaited. That a person who...

Victoria Larsson

Mar 22, 20214 min read

What Is My Real Self?

The Buddha said: I teach one thing, and one thing only: Suffering (dukkha) and the end of suffering. According to the Buddha desire and...

Let's Be Happy! Let's Get Our Heads Out Of Our Assholes

Victoria Larsson

Feb 24, 20213 min read

Let's Be Happy! Let's Get Our Heads Out Of Our Assholes

A little while ago I read about a study, where people from a few different countries were asked to make themselves happier. The people...

Flowing Through Life's Ups & Downs with Grace

Victoria Larsson

Feb 9, 20213 min read

Flowing Through Life's Ups & Downs with Grace

The Brahmaviharas, or the Four Immeasurables, are mind states, or feelings that we cultivate when we practice meditation. Here I will...

Victoria Larsson

Jan 25, 20213 min read

Bleakness TBC

Like most people, I get The Pandemic Blues from time to time. I had it really bad around the holidays. I was resisting the way things...