Tag: #rodstryker

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, […]

Back in December 2013, I experienced Rod Stryker’s course The Four Desires, then called The Yoga of Fulfillment, for the first time. Even though, or perhaps BECAUSE I’d been doing personal work for three decades, in this time-tested process I uncovered one of my deepest driving motivations in life, and crafted my very own Dharma […]

8 Limbs is pleased to publish Teacher Profiles to help you to know and learn from the amazing group of 8 Limbs Yoga Teachers. This month we profile a new teacher to 8 Limbs, Bayeshan Cooper who now teaches at 8 Limbs Wedgwood on Fridays at 4:00pm All Levels Flow and 5:30pm Gentle. Some of you know Bayeshan’s smiling […]

For me, commitment comes most easily when I am very clear on it’s purpose. My yoga practice has ebbed and flowed over the last 22 years. There have been times, even years, of dedicated regularity, but mostly it comes in fits and starts. What I’ve found, in really looking at the habit, is that when […]

This past week, while the news from Nepal (and Baltimore) shook our world and nation, I sat from 9am to 6pm in a five-day training on the Koshas with my yoga teacher Rod Stryker. I was removed from my morning NPR habit, and mostly offline, but whispers and newsfeeds made their way into my awareness. […]

Looking for a some deep relaxation this weekend? Yoga Nidra practice is an extremely effective way to recharge your body/mind. Yoga Nidra means “yogic sleep” or sleep with a slight trace of awareness. It is practiced lying on our backs, with support of pillows and/or props, a super posh savasana. In Yoga Nidra you are […]

Teacher Name: Tracy Hodgeman Website: www.tracyhodgeman.com Where do you teach? 8 Limbs Phinney Ridge (Friday mornings, 6:30-7:30, 9-10:15) and West Seattle (Thursday eves 5:45-7 & 7:15-8:30, Saturday mornings 9-10:30, 10:45-12) as well as Ballard, Interbay and Downtown. I volunteer once a week at the Bailey-Boushay House as a part of the Samarya Center’s Bedside Yoga […]