May Newsletter: The Three Gunas & Learning to Free Yourself From Self-Destruction & Self-Sabotage
Working to free yourself from Rajas-Tamas loops will alleviate yourself from past & future suffering & in time elevate your consciousness
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Jo-Jo Jackson
- Mar 8
- 5 min
March Newsletter: Making Space for Grief Healing
What I've learned is creating boundaries around what I can & can't do is important. I've also learned making time for rest is vital...
Jo-Jo Jackson
- Feb 1
- 6 min
February Newsletter: Tantra, Yoga & The Nature of Desire
Tantra is a path & practice of returning to body, breath & 5 senses to fully experience the blissful play of divine Consciousness...
Jo-Jo Jackson
- Dec 14, 2021
- 2 min
December Newsletter: Practicing The Yoga of Reflection
Reflect on your experiences through the technique of smriti sadhana--the practice of memory contemplation--to intentionally look back
Jo-Jo Jackson
- Nov 17, 2021
- 3 min
November Newsletter: Elevating Your Wellbeing Though the Five Senses
...you never really experience the outside world; you only experience your own nervous system. The 5 senses are direct connections to that..
Jo-Jo Jackson
- Oct 14, 2021
- 2 min
October Newsletter: Jo-Jo's Top 3 Tips to Moving Slowly for Vata Season
The ability to ground isn't just mindlessly moving slowly, but moving slowly with awareness, effort & intention.
Jo-Jo Jackson
- Sep 14, 2021
- 3 min
September Newsletter: How Yoga Taught Me To Navigate Challenge Without Totally Freaking Out
I was able to practice discernment & awareness to stay motivated & courageous as I took a big step into the unknown...
Jo-Jo Jackson
- Jul 1, 2021
- 3 min
July Newsletter: Being at Home Within Your Self
The real home is always within. By shifting awareness from the external to the internal, what first tastes like poison transmutes to nectar.
Jo-Jo Jackson
- May 4, 2021
- 3 min
May Newsletter: The Yoga of Compassionate Action in the Age of Coronavirus
With the guidance of the Yamas & Niyama and the light of positive discernment we can guide ourselves & our communities toward compassion.
Jo-Jo Jackson
- Dec 3, 2020
- 3 min
December Newsletter: What 2020 Taught Me About Resilience
To be resilient means to have the capacity and the ability to recover & adapt from stressful, adversarial or challenging situations...
Jo-Jo Jackson
- Nov 5, 2020
- 6 min
November Newsletter: Hot Yoga, Ayurveda & Recognizing Afflictions
when I practice self-inquiry to understand how the kleshas show up in my life, my hot yoga practice was linked to egoism & unhealthy attachm
Jo-Jo Jackson
- Oct 6, 2020
- 6 min
October Newsletter: Restorative Yoga & Practicing Letting Go
By practicing restorative yoga we can make friends with our mind & learn to let go of stress, tension or anxiety to become more resilient
Jo-Jo Jackson
- Sep 3, 2020
- 5 min
September Newsletter: Innerstanding, Presence And The Beginner's Mind
when it feels like nothing is guaranteed--not even the mundane routines of our modern Western society--practicing presence is vital.
Jo-Jo Jackson
- Jun 2, 2020
- 4 min
June Newsletter: Yoga As A Practice For Radical Self-Acceptance
When we can radically, spontaneously cultivate a higher sense of SELF, we can start to clear the clouded fog of avidya to see
Jo-Jo, The Yogi Bassist
- Feb 12, 2020
- 6 min
February Newsletter: Yoga Teacher Training For The Person That Wants To Teach
Greeting friends, With the turn of the calendar to February brings with it the last half of Winter and a transition into early Kapha...
Jo-Jo, The Yogi Bassist
- Jan 10, 2020
- 5 min
January Newsletter: Yoga Teacher Training for The Person That Doesn't Want To Teach
Greeting friends, Happy 2020! Not only is it a brand new year, but it's also a brand new decade. Along with this new cycle around the sun...
Jo-Jo, The Yogi Bassist
- Sep 12, 2019
- 7 min
September Newsletter: Energetic Intersections, Part V: The Mind, The Third Eye & The Crown Chakr
Greeting & Namaste friends, Happy September! I don't know about you, but I am excited for Mother Earth's transition to autumn and Vata...
Jo-Jo, The Yogi Bassist
- May 16, 2019
- 5 min
May Newsletter: Energetic Intersections, Part I: Chakras, Doshas & Endocrine System
Greetings and namaste friends, Spring has been a source of growth potential. The world is back to life and creative energy is flowing....
Jo-Jo, The Yogi Bassist
- Nov 1, 2018
- 5 min
November Newsletter: Perceiving the True You
Greetings & Namaste! Wow everyone happy AUTUMN! This last month of October flew by rather quickly. For those of you waiting to read the...