Category: 8 Limbs News

Greetings! You’ve arrived at the 8 Limbs 28 Day Commitment Blog for February 1-28, 2018. For more information on the 28 Day Commitment click here. This blog will be updated every day in February with tips and info to support Building a Sustainable Practice. February 28: You’ve done it! You’re powerful beyond measure, and your […]

We made it. The door of 2017 has closed, and here we are in 2018, its window wide open. There is possibility in a New Year, a fresh start. Renewal. So how are we, each one of us precious, powerful people, going to carry ourselves responsibly into the dawn of this nascent year? What inner […]

When we first chose this question for December as part of our year of questions we figured it would be great for the holiday season. What really matters after all – love, right? Family and friends! Experiences over things! Yes, yes, and yes! These are our standard answers to a question that gets posed more […]

I’ll ask you first: what grounds you? What helps you to feel on the ground, to feel mentally and emotionally stable, to be “sensible and realistic” (acc. to Merriam Webster!)? Take a moment and feel what grounded is like in your body. For me grounded feels soothing. It feels like being at home in my […]

The word sustain means to strengthen or support. No one experiences this essential life underpinning in the same way. Our life experiences (and innate temperament) shape the ways we interface with what buoys us. For years I thought that what sustained me was success, and being liked, and I chased both of these like my […]

I have to laugh at myself this morning. It’s 7:30am on September 1st, and I am sitting on my back deck, in an 8 Limbs octopus hoodie, laptop on my legs. I am teaching at 8 Limbs Wedgwood in 2 hours, and I need to write a newsletter and press send in the next 45 minutes. […]

Last month I spoke to the question “How Do You Connect?” by sharing my realization that for me, right now,  s l o w i n g    d o w n  is the answer. Quite by chance – but I guess not really – August’s (predetermined) question of the month is What Gives You Pause? In other words, […]

A few years ago I woke up to my habit of being in a perpetual rush. I was biking up Madison from my home in the valley to teach my 10am class up on Capitol Hill. It was 9:45am, so I was already late. At about 26th Avenue I became aware of the physical sensations […]

In the twenty + years since 8 Limbs opened I’ve come to see the community that works and practices at 8 Limbs as a kind of family. We breathe together, move together, laugh and sweat together and even cry together. We are connected through subtle practices, through sound, or without a sound. We love yoga, […]

When we say that something “moves” us, we are pointing to a shift in our state of being. We have changed opinions, or actions, or emotions; perhaps there has even been transformation. The principle of movement, according to Yoga and Ayurveda, is called prana, the Sanskrit word that is described as “life force” or “cosmic […]