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Carol Biel discusses her new practice of Tonal Yoga and its impact on her life.

Tonal Yoga: There’s No Bigger High



Yoga teachers can bring new life to their students’ experience by adding the voice to posture.

Tonal Yoga: Adding Voice to posture



Imagine stretching your limits and feeling the rush of an opened heart.

Tonal Yoga: Stretching Your Limits



Tonal Yoga: Deepen Your Practice



Tonal Yoga, a practice that is primal, uplifting, cathartic, calming.

Tonal Yoga: A Cathartic Release



Listen to the benefits to using tonal yoga in your practice. Feel the vibration fill your heart.

Tonal Yoga: Feel the Vibration



I’m so thrilled to announce that the Tonal Yoga video is complete and has been duplicated for us.  Next, we move to selling and distributing it.  Carol will begin to host toning and yoga sessions as well, so look here for more information on dates.

If you would like to see it for yourself, we are having a release party at Westwind Farm Studio — write for details to: info@tonalyoga.com

We are getting excited because the Tonal Yoga video is moving rapidly toward completion. We hope to test it with our favorite yoga friends before releasing it and expect to complete final editing this summer. Carol is looking forward to sharing the wisdom of adding sound to yoga posture with you. Here’s a peek at the video:
Tonal Yoga: bringing sound to your practice



A couple weeks ago a dear friend asked me which religion most closely resembled my
beliefs or internal process. I struggled a bit; shaking my head, there isn’t one. There are elements of many traditions that offer solace, compassion, and understanding. But I can’t be pinned in to one, never have been able to. Of the major religions created thus far in human existence there are elements that are at the core of every living being no matter the choices they make–the need to be loved and to give love, the expression of compassion, the need to find something to attach some sort of hope for something better, and the need to provide solace to the apparent craziness in this world.

Given the state of consciousness in which we are in right now, it makes perfect sense that none of these religions are working, yet they are all working simultaneously. At any given moment depending on one’s state of mind, belief systems, emotions, present energies, food digesting in the belly, outside circumstances, or relationship status, one chooses what works in whatever form it works.

Where do you find the sacred? In whatever experience you create, in spending time with a loved one, in feeling earth’s arms embrace you, in the joy of spontaneous laughter, in simply allowing love to shine into those nooks and crannies in your heart that so deeply yearn for meaning, understanding and ultimately compassion.

Compassion and tolerance in my opinion is the religion that the unified whole is trying to find at this point in time. The thread of the peaceful, calm, heartfelt love that lies in the center of each individual on the planet.

Deeper than the emotional scares, karma, fear, & thoughts—finding the most still point internally that one is capable of at any given time. And when one has even a fleeting glimpse of this divine light, one suddenly reaches a level of understanding, compassion, love & gratitude and with it the discovery that this place is our divine gift and our divine right and has never left us and will never leave. Oh, how wonderful it is to feel this place after such a long absence. That, my dear one, is my religion.

Carol, 3-25-09