A new twist for the Near East Yoga website

Dear Friends, Greetings via a step away from Facebook. I’m going to be using the valuable but some times confounding tool of social media while focusing my attention on my website and attempting to deliver better and more salient content that serves the Near East Yoga community. For many years I would write a monthly … Read more

In case of Snow!!

The studio will remain open for anyone who can get in to practice. I plan to come in irrespective of the weather but in case that can’t happen due to sheet ice or blocked roads, feel free to call me, 503-890-2212, and I will instruct you on how to open the street door and the … Read more

Learn Yoga Sutra

The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali offers a practical path to becoming established in the esoteric possibilities of yoga. The class is designed to include both the non-Sanskrit speaker and the student of Sanskrit and leads to a personal and group relationship with the meaning and use of the Yoga Sutra. We sincerely and warmly welcome … Read more

Yoga for the Yogi

The method of Ashtanga Yoga, via Sri K Pattabhi Jois of Mysore South India, has doors and passages embedded in its practice leading to classical results. There are many derivatives of Ashtanga Yoga available to today that can give practical results but the original method still holds the keys to deeper application and meaning that … Read more

Thursday Night 6:30pm Group Primary

Hi Friends and Yogis, This blog post is to invite you to connect again to the Ashtanga Yoga sequence and the sangha at large at Near East Yoga, especially the 6:30PM Thursday night group primary class. For anyone who is not a already a regular with me, I’m offering this one class at a drop … Read more

Following the Moon-

I get a few calls on Moonday mornings, inquiring about the locked door. Often it’s a new student who gets their first experience of not doing asana for the first time and then, maybe looking up in the sky and seeing the full moon and saying “ah-ha”. Usually this ah-ha leads to always keeping an … Read more