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...
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Victoria Larsson
- Jun 13, 2017
- 3 min
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...
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Victoria Larsson
- Jun 6, 2017
- 4 min
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...
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Victoria Larsson
- May 24, 2017
- 6 min
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...
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Victoria Larsson
- Apr 27, 2017
- 2 min
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...
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Victoria Larsson
- Apr 15, 2017
- 3 min
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...
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Victoria Larsson
- Mar 31, 2017
- 11 min
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...
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Victoria Larsson
- Mar 20, 2017
- 2 min
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...
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Victoria Larsson
- Mar 7, 2017
- 5 min
Yoga Against the Machine
When I first got serious about yoga (read: asana), I loved the super-sweaty classes with the mega-impossible pretzel-y asanas and the...
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Victoria Larsson
- Feb 15, 2017
- 4 min
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...
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Victoria Larsson
- Dec 26, 2016
- 5 min
Connected/Disconnected
I am old enough to remember life without mobile phones. Life without Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Tinder. In fact, I am old enough to...
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Victoria Larsson
- Nov 26, 2016
- 3 min
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...
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Victoria Larsson
- Nov 15, 2016
- 1 min
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...
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