Grant Ifflander

We're almost two weeks into this year's MENTORSHIP container with an intimate group of 7 yogis and the one thing I always like to work on in the beginning of any new sādhana is the focused development of the root & legs. These parts of us -- the feet, the ankles, the knees, the thighs and the base -- form the foundation for everything that is to come in our practice. Without a firm and stable foundation, the rest of the structure will collapse on top of a shaky base. One must reflect on and...

We kicked off the 1st round of MENTORSHIP yesterday -- an intimate group of 7 intrepid yogis -- and we were contemplating this question: "what is [yoga] āsana?" Inspired by this question I want to write today about this. I think a good place to start in our investigation is asking simply: "what is the body?" Our body is a collection of materials that seemingly evolved out of the cosmic soup of the manifest universe. Elements such as iron and silicon; or the more obvious friends oxygen and...

by Grant Ifflander After 11 years of teaching yoga, 6 years of facilitating international retreats, and 3 years of running education programs for teaching certification, I've had a good amount of opportunity to learn about the developmental process on the path of Yoga. Each year I accrue more experience in terms of my own journey, and, for me, has been a profound & quite humbling study throughout this time. There have been many instances where I've wondered "what's next?" and have had to...