Yoga studio review series: Yoga Sanctuary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yoga Sanctuary’s College studio is a popular studio located conveniently on the north west corner of Yonge/College. It is literally right across the street from the Winners’ College facing exit.

 

Yoga studio review series: Yoga Plus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conveniently located steps east of Yonge/Eglinton on the north side, Yoga Plus has great amenities and a very convenient location, but at $20/drop-in class (price includes water) it is very expensive.

 

Yoga studio review series: 889 Yonge

   

889 Yonge is a spacious, upscale Yoga/Spa “Community” just south of Rosedale subway station. Immediately upon entering, you are greeted with friendly staff and an entire store full of green, eco-friendly merchandise. As such, 889 Yonge feels much more like a spa than a studio.

 

Yoga studio review series: MyKula

I recently bought the Passport to Prana card, which gives me, for the price of $30, one free class at a long list of participating studios until the end of Feb 2010. As such, I have been exploring studios in the downtown core of Toronto and thought, despite this blog’s archival format, that I might report back with some mini reviews. Every archive has new accurals I suppose. One important caveat here is that I can only try one class from each studio, and therefore, cannot comment on the breadth of classes and teachers a studio offers over time.

[edit] New York based yoginis might want to check out a similar series of reviews on The Hermetic Review.

Onto the first review: MyKula Yoga (updated November 7!)

 

new publication by CG Jung

I know this blog is supposed to be an “archive”, but this is worth preserving: a previously unreleased “Red Book” containing Jung’s recordings of his “confrontation with the unconscious” is finally going to be released in October. In the meantime, do read the deliciously long New York Times article with sample photos of the Red Book to whet your appetite. Thanks to The Wildhunt for tipping us off.

 

for the curious and the dabblers

Since Dan Brown’s new book, there has been more interest generated in Freemasonry and I thought it would be timely to ressurect this post.

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Original Title: orders of elitism?
Original Post Date: April 29, 2006 @ 2:51 pm

I’ve been thinking about the role of elitism in terms of the OTO and freemasonry. You could say both orders are guilty of it despite principles of brotherhood and suchlike. Take Crowley’s scathing disgust with the masses and his penchant for unconstructive shit disturbing; oft cited character flaws indicating the man’s elitism which flew in the face of his assertion that “every man and woman is a star.” From an outsider’s or freemason’s point of view, as OTO members tend to hold Crowley in high regard, it may be assumed that this elitist attitude and distain for the ignorant, “unwashed masses” permeate the order. Not my opinion of course, but I can understand the perspective. However, from the OTO end, freemasonry looks totally elitist as well, with their old boys and their old money, no vaginas allowed.

But really, at the heart of the matter, elitism is not the issue. It seems to me that for many, it may appear on the surface that both orders have devised their own ways of safeguarding their secrets to keep people out. And I am no expert but I think those barriers are not really present to protect the secrets themselves, rather, their function is to protect people and to keep secrets in. Sort of like containing wild tigers in cages if you’re going to have a circus.

 

Dream quotes

It’s been over a decade since I began recording my dreams, and while so much has changed, what remained the same is the powerful sense of having a conversation.

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Original Title: isthmus on Jung on dreams
Original Post Date: June 26, 2006 @ 3:33 am

Johanna Pieterman

“… the relation of the unconscious to the conscious mind is not merely mechanical or complementary, but rather compensatory, taking its cue from the anfractuosities of the conscious attitude, the intelligent character of this unconscious activity can hardly be denied.” [1]

It’s a commonly accepted idea that dreams provide unconscious information that is in some way obscured, repressed or simply absent from consciousness. But Jung is saying something more: that dreams offer not simply a passive compliment to what is lacking in the conscious mind, but intelligent responses to conscious lack. Which is to mean, the unconscious is not simply a blank mirror offering an inverse reflection of consciousness, but it is an entity capable of generating its own symbols.

 

Tarot resource: strength and justice

Another old article about the placements of strength and justice in the major arcana sequence.

 

Survival

I don’t know if you can consider today the O.div’s birthday but for what it’s worth, it’s survived numerous deaths and hacks, and has migrated all over the web for the past 5 years. Thanks for everyone who stuck around (and who found this new space!), and I apologize for the blog’s disappearing acts. C’est la vie.

 

Understanding Modality

Wrote this ages ago, maybe in 2003. Not sure if I would now characterize mutable signs as “detached” though as that implies emotional detachment. It’s more like a lack of attachments.

While much has been written about sign elements (which are easily related to other systems such as psychological typology, tarot suit etc), I found in my early studies that modality was often overlooked. Here is a more in depth examination of sign modality, also known as quality.

There are three modalities which can basically be summed up as beginnings (cardinal), middles (fixed) and ends (mutable). Each group has its own particular characteristics and it is well worth noting when interpreting a chart if there is a bias towards a modality, or lack of one.