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Yoga Philosophy

Tapas – Dedication to Practice

Gentle Yogis have completed 683 days of daily Gentle Breath Practice Chair Yoga. Congrats to those who have completed a day, a week, a month or many months of practice.

January was the eighth month of daily group study after the practice. This month was a fascinating, challenging, and often revelatory exploration. We’re on the third Niyama, Tapas, usually referred to as self-discipline. In his book Nourishing The Teacher, Danny Arguetty refers to it as dedication.

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Teaching Gentle

Slow-Melt: A Dynamic Duo of Gentle Goodness

By M. Patricia Diaz, Dynamic Gentle Yoga Teacher and Memoir Author The first class I took with Rudy was like a walk on the moon. Slow, very slow motion. I didn’t know at the time that his class would at some point rise to the level of “out of this

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