Posts by Devon Barrow
You Probably Haven’t Learned This About Pranayama
If you’ve been practicing yoga (asana) long enough, then you probably remember the buzz when yoga was becoming truly mainstream. Instead of the mysterious studio tucked into the strip mall, or the random loft space, or the studio you found by word-of-mouth—spaces were popping up left and right. It seems like something similar is happening…
Read MoreWhat Are The Yoga Sutras?
If you are looking to deepen your relationship to yoga, one of the natural steps is to take a dip into its rich history. But how do you wrap your mind around 10,000+ years? Yoga is often examined in different eras. You have the Pre-Classical Era, around 2700 BCE, where fundamental Vedic scriptures came through.…
Read MoreThe #1 Yoga Myth That Needs Clarifying
Let’s start with the most important part: Why should we care that there are myths surrounding yoga, and that perhaps it matters to debunk them? Maybe you love your yoga practice the way it is, and you don’t really care what exists beyond the four corners of your mat. It works for you—and why fix…
Read More7 Tips to Survive The Chaos In 2022
We’re all feeling it. The pure overwhelm. From the holiday rush to the end-of-year workload, to staying healthy and spending time with our families, the list is endless of where we can be feeling overwhelmed in our lives. Add to that the continually changing world post-COVID. This feeling seems to be thick in the air,…
Read MoreConscious Living: Divine Masculine – Part 4 Stillness
Before the universe, there was stillness. In the yogic teachings, stillness is represented by Shiva. Creation is represented by Shakti. Shiva holds the space of motionless stillness, and out of that space, Shakti emerges. We see this play out every day of our lives. For example: Where do ideas come from? Creative ideas (Shakti) come…
Read MoreConscious Living: Divine Masculine – Part 3 Balance
In this polarized world, there can be a lot of criticism of both feminism and toxic masculinity. But our well-being really requires a healthy balance of both feminine and masculine energies to thrive, regardless of how you identify. All things in life require both — just look at the birth of a new being. Or…
Read MoreConscious Living: Divine Masculine – Part 2 Toxic Masculinity
The phrase toxic masculinity has gained increasing popularity in our modern times. But it’s also a very loaded term, which is why it’s important to really understand it if we are to use it. Toxic masculinity is a complex phrase and refers to ideas of “manliness” as a function of domination, homophobia, and aggression. It is the…
Read MoreConscious Living: Divine Masculine – Part 1
Every single human being has both feminine and masculine energies within them. If we identify as a womxn, we may feel distanced from masculine qualities, and vice versa. But it’s important to cultivate our own Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine in order to experience the balance between the two. The Divine Masculine is all about action,…
Read MoreConscious Living: Divine Feminine – Rise of the Feminine (Part 4)
The phrase “rise of the Divine Feminine” has been building momentum in our modern culture, but what does that mean? It refers to the fact that our world has been a masculine-powered one for very long but also that this status is changing. The Divine Feminine is rising, or reawakening. We are starting to see…
Read MoreConscious Living: Divine Feminine – The Lunar (Part 3)
Another way that we often see the Divine Feminine represented is through different dualities that exist in our universe, for example, the sun and moon. The moon represents the Divine Feminine—radiant, mysterious, sensual, cyclical, and reminiscent of sleep/rest. The sun represents the masculine (illuminating, intense, and correlated with activity). Lunar practices are intended to bring us into…
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