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Anyone else have trouble sleeping? No, I'm not here with some holier-than-thou spiritual platitude. It straight up sucks. The most useful thing for me is ironically to remember that I've been here before and still always manage to do what has to be done. Time to get moving. #yoga #keepiteversoslightlyreal #bensearsknows #luxyoga 📷 @jonasjpark at @secondsideyoga (at Upper East Side)

We all have our scars. #yoga #keepiteversoslightlyreal #bensearsknows #luxyoga 📷 @jonasjpark at @secondsideyoga (at Bel Air, Los Angeles)

Yoga after teaching yoga/a sequence of poses held only long enough to support the compulsion to post to the Internet. Also: Graham Parsons. Also 2: I forgot my kindle on this trip and the iPhone is doing that evil chuckle while slowly eating my brain like Hannibal, offering little pieces up to seat mates on the flight to the end of thinking. Wait — forgot the recycled spiritual quote: "the man alone on the island is not alone but with himself after all." — Swami Stuckatsea #yoga #keepiteversoslightlyreal #bensearsknows #grahamparsons #swamistuckatsea #beyerself (at Bikram Yoga Huntington Beach)

First one's a doozy. Almost always feel more flexible or tighter than looks. Very rarely does it look how I felt it. And the life-thing is often less work than I make it out to be before getting started or far more intricate than I allowed myself to imagine before diving in. Repetition over time can provide a frame of reference as the sample size grows, and raise one's ability to respond skillfully to sensation, to prepare willfully for execution. #yoga #keepiteversoslightlyreal #bensearsknows #luxlife #luxyoga (at Bel Air, Los Angeles)

Have support. Learning to use it. ——————————————— Sometimes you might lean too much, other times not enough. The scaffold of any yoga or life prop is not meant to replace effort but to direct it towards the fruition of inherent potential, to reveal what's already possible, to raise the vision. #yoga #keepiteversoslightlyreal #bensearsknows #canturnyourjeadwithoutyourlegs #bigsky #montana #littlecondonotontheprairie (at Big Sky, Montana)

Morning. Routine. Got one? Start small. 3 minutes can be a catapult. Use your phone as timer — not a phone. Basically my recipe is move my joints, then pranayama. DM with questions. #yoga #keepiteversoslightlyreal #bensearsknows #luxyoga #luxlife #bigsky #montana #fakewesterncondo (at Big Sky, Montana)

There's no backbend in a triangle, no concavity in a line. Applying the body to the geometrical archetypes of the postures is like slowly stretching a canvas over a frame. Here's a Bikram-style triangle up against a wall in beautiful Montana. One thing to feel for in this pose is a stretch in your lower back on the side of the back leg, rather than the feeling of those muscles pulling you into a backbend. That "triangle" of the lower back corresponds to the inner hip on the same side which corresponds to the arch of the foot. #yoga #keepiteversoslightlyreal #bensearsknows #montana #bigsky (at Big Sky, Montana)

I found center. It's in Montana. #apresski #keepiteversoslightlyreal #bensearsknows #luxlife #luxyoga (at Santosha Wellness Center)