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Tim Miller
Encinitas CA
"My goal as a teacher is to inspire a passion for practice. The practice itself, done consistently and accurately, is the real teacher."
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Tuesday May 14, 2013
My mother was laid to rest yesterday in Riverside National Cemetery, alongside my father, who passed away two years ago. Hopefully, they are reunited now and Dad is showing Mom the ropes in the afterlife. It is always difficult to lose a parent, no matter what kind of a relationship... Continue reading
Posted 4 days ago at Tuesdays with Timji
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Workshop tomorrow with Geri Portnoy
Posted May 10, 2013 at Special Events
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Tuesday, May 7th
Two and a half weeks ago I received a Happy Anniversary card from my 94 year-old mother. Enclosed was some cash for a “special anniversary dinner”, and a note saying she had just spent ten days in the hospital after experiencing some difficulty breathing. She asked my brother Rick, who... Continue reading
Posted May 7, 2013 at Tuesdays with Timji
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Tuesday, April 30th
We are currently under the influence of sinister planets. Saturn, the “Great Malefic” stands in direct opposition to Mars, “the Lesser Malefic” at 10:12pmPDT this evening. This is one of the most challenging of all planetary aspects. Some of the difficulties that we may have at this time are: a... Continue reading
Posted Apr 30, 2013 at Tuesdays with Timji
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Tuesday April 23rd
The full moon on Thursday April 25th—12:57pmPDT—occurs in the Nakshatra called “Swati”, meaning self-going, tender and delicate--like a young plant shoot blown by the wind. The presiding deity of Swati is Vayu, the God of the Wind and Hanuman’s father. The full moon of Chaitra (April) is celebrated in India... Continue reading
Posted Apr 23, 2013 at Tuesdays with Timji
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Tuesday April 16th
Greetings from from Columbus, Ohio, recently named “America’s smartest city.” I’ve been here for six days and feel much more intelligent already. For the past 16 years I’ve been teaching an annual workshop at Yoga on High and always seem to arrive just as Spring is bursting forth in all... Continue reading
Posted Apr 17, 2013 at Tuesdays with Timji
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Tuesday, April 9th
The New Moon on Wednesday April 10th at 2:35amPDT occurs within the lunar asterism known as Revati –meaning “wealthy”, or “ transcendent.” This is the 27th and final nakshatra, representing the culmination of all the signs of the zodiac, and a sense of completion and dissolution. Revati falls at the... Continue reading
Posted Apr 9, 2013 at Tuesdays with Timji
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Tuesday April 2nd
It’s that time of year again, the annual meeting of Venus and Mars—the archetypal Feminine and Masculine (“Men are from Mars and women are from Venus.”) On Saturday April 6th they will be exactly conjunct at 9:58pm PDT. This is a conjunction that is particularly fascinating to me because I... Continue reading
Posted Apr 2, 2013 at Tuesdays with Timji
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Tuesday March 26th
I think the Universe should issue a high-surf advisory for the coming week. Wednesday morning at 2:27am PDT the Full Moon will occur in the Nakshatra (lunar mansion) called Hasta, “The Hand.” Hasta provides us with “Hasta sthapaniya agama shakti”—the power to put the object of desire in one’s hands.... Continue reading
Posted Mar 26, 2013 at Tuesdays with Timji
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Tuesday March 19th
Tomorrow morning at 4:02am PDT the Sun will be directly over the equator, marking the Vernal Equinox and the first day of spring. All over the planet tomorrow there will be roughly equal parts of day and night. The Sun will rise directly in the East and set directly in... Continue reading
Posted Mar 19, 2013 at Tuesdays with Timji
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Tuesday March 12th
In case you missed it, this past Sunday evening, just prior to the New Moon on Monday, was Shivaratri, the auspicious night of Shiva. In some parts of India, Shivaratri is observed to celebrate the drinking of the halahala (poison) by Shiva during the churning of the Ocean of Milk.... Continue reading
Posted Mar 12, 2013 at Tuesdays with Timji
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Tuesday March 5th
I’m still basking in the afterglow of the confluence. Had lunch today with Dena and Jack, who stopped in Encinitas on their way to LAX and a late night departure to Australia. They had a great time at the confluence and were touched by the special nature of the event.... Continue reading
Posted Mar 5, 2013 at Tuesdays with Timji
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Tuesday February 26th
The 2nd annual Ashtanga Yoga Confluence is only two days away and I am starting to get pysched up for it. Last year was such a blast and unfolded in such a seamless and organic way, that it will be hard to top—but I think it can be done. The... Continue reading
Posted Feb 26, 2013 at Tuesdays with Timji
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Tuesday, February 19th
Today I am celebrating my Solar Return, the day the Sun sits at the same position it occupied at birth. My actual date of birth is February 20th, 1951, but due to a phenomenon known as the “precession of the Equinox”, there has been a backward shift in the Zodiac... Continue reading
Posted Feb 19, 2013 at Tuesdays with Timji
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Tuesday, February 12th
We have quite a lineup of events this week, starting with Fat Tuesday today, Ash Wednesday tomorrow, and St. Valentine’s Day on Thursday (not to mention President’s Day next Monday!). Fat Tuesday, or Mardi Gras, marks the end of Carnival, a season that begins on the Feast of the Epiphany—a... Continue reading
Posted Feb 12, 2013 at Tuesdays with Timji
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Tuesday February 5th
Posted Feb 5, 2013 at Tuesdays with Timji
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Tuesday, January 29th
Hola from Tulum, Mexico. Just coming to the end of day three of the week-long course I am teaching here. I have a wonderful group of students from all over that I am subjecting to seven hours of class time per day, attempting to teach them as much about the... Continue reading
Posted Jan 30, 2013 at Tuesdays with Timji
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Tuesday, January 22nd
As I recall, last week I was complaining about a lot of things—the “artic winter” of Encinitas, the defective heater in the yoga studio, respiratory distress, my injured shoulder, and “vata derangement”. I apologize for being such a whiner--perhaps I was suffering from SAD (seasonal affective disorder). Sometimes when my... Continue reading
Posted Jan 22, 2013 at Tuesdays with Timji
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Tuesday January 15th
One of the most important things that the practice of yoga tries to teach us is to recognize what is true and acknowledge it, to embrace the path of Satya—both speaking and living in adherence to the Truth. Okay, the truth is, I’ve never been a big fan of Winter.... Continue reading
Posted Jan 15, 2013 at Tuesdays with Timji
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Tuesday January 8th
This past Sunday was the 35th anniversary of my first yoga class at the old “Yoga Church”, half a block from my house on La Veta Avenue in Encinitas. I had been walking by the Church the day before and stopped to find out the schedule from a guy working... Continue reading
Posted Jan 8, 2013 at Tuesdays with Timji
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Tuesday, January 1st
The New Year always begins with such promise. Inevitably we find ourselves making new years’ resolutions—to lose those extra kilos we gained over the holidays and stick to a healthier diet, to get to yoga class more often, to be more organized and productive, to act with greater understanding, compassion... Continue reading
Posted Jan 2, 2013 at Tuesdays with Timji
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Tuesday, December 25th
Like many Americans I am a bit of a workaholic. I could try blaming that on my slave- driving employer, but I’m self-employed. Thankfully, I enjoy my work and normally derive a lot of joy and satisfaction from it. Sometime around mid-November this year, however, I really began to feel... Continue reading
Posted Dec 25, 2012 at Tuesdays with Timji
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Tuesday December 18th
Friday December 21st is the long anticipated end of the Mayan calendar. There has been a lot of discussion and many predictions regarding this event, which seem to fall into three major categories. (1) The alignment of the Sun with the Galactic Center will create general havoc on earth in... Continue reading
Posted Dec 18, 2012 at Tuesdays with Timji
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Tuesday, December 11th
(...continued from last week) The sadhu introduced himself as Kripanand Saraswati and explained that he belonged to a sect known as the Dasanami Sastradhari Nagas. His guru’s name was Yogi Angadanand Saraswati, who traced his lineage back to the 4th century. This lineage of yogis believes that the science of... Continue reading
Posted Dec 11, 2012 at Tuesdays with Timji
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Tuesday, December 4th
Last July when I was in Copenhagen, my friend Eskil introduced me to a book called Sivananda Buried Yoga by Yogi Manmoyanand. Based on the title I figured it was a diatribe against modern approaches to yoga. Nevertheless, I decided to read it last week. In this book Yogi Manmoyanand... Continue reading
Posted Dec 4, 2012 at Tuesdays with Timji
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