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Crisis of Faith
My meditation teacher urges us to meditate two hours per day: one hour in the morning and one in the evening. For years I thought of that...

Victoria Larsson
Jul 25, 20173 min read


I am a Liar. Are you?
As famously outlined by Patanjali in The Yoga Sutras, the path of yoga starts out by observing certain ethical or moral rules; The Yamas...

Victoria Larsson
Jun 22, 20172 min read


I Love Yoga And Hate Everything About It
I need to acknowledge here, that I borrowed this title from J. Brown, who was one of my first teachers, and who runs an interesting...

Victoria Larsson
Jun 13, 20173 min read


To Walk on Water, to Ride Rainbows like Waterslides
I told myself last night: the first thing you will do tomorrow morning, after meditation, is to write a blog post. The alarm sounded at...

Victoria Larsson
Jun 6, 20174 min read


Social Media Blues
I shut down my Facebook account about seven years ago, and never looked back. I have led a globetrotting life, and I know a lot of...

Victoria Larsson
May 24, 20176 min read


STHIRA SUKHAM ASANAM
This is probably the most quoted aphorism from one of the most iconic text on yoga 'Patanjai's Yoga Sutras.' It is also the only mention...

Victoria Larsson
Apr 27, 20172 min read


My Yoga is the Right Yoga
Have you ever come across a yoga teacher, or a school of yoga that claimed, or implied that 'their' yoga is the only true yoga? That any...

Victoria Larsson
Apr 15, 20173 min read


Break on through to the other side
In early 2007 my life was a total mess. I was sleeping on a leaking air mattress, on the floor of a rundown shotgun house in a rough...

Victoria Larsson
Mar 31, 201711 min read


The empty space beyond a dream coming true
Have you ever felt empty after a dream came through? Felt hollow after a goal was reached? Experienced a void opening up inside you once...

Victoria Larsson
Mar 20, 20172 min read


Yoga as Rebellion
When I got into yoga it was a fairly weird thing to get into. I remember the first yoga studio I ever went to, Integral Yoga in the West...

Victoria Larsson
Feb 15, 20174 min read


The only way out is through
I have always had an ambivalent relationship to so called romantic love. One one hand, I am madly in love with love. I have been a...

Victoria Larsson
Nov 26, 20163 min read


When life gives you lemons ...
I was living in New York City on the 11th of September, 2001. That day also ended the relationship with my first live-in boyfriend in a...

Victoria Larsson
Nov 15, 20161 min read
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