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Him Schwartz is a really accomplished but super low-key under the radar yoga teacher,

originally from Chicago and now living in the southwest.

And when I lived in Wisconsin, I used to drive down to Chicago where he would teach

at the Temple of Kriya Yoga where he was an ordained Swami.

He had a lot of training in Ayangayoga but he didn't have any of the anal preoccupations

with postural perfection.

He was gentle, easygoing and he spoke about the body and mind in a language I'd never heard before

but that echoed the aphoristic quality of the old sutras.

On his website now, it looks like he's on sabbatical and I haven't been in touch with him for years.

His tagline is, the nervous system alerts to novelty and defaults to the known.

And reading that now, I'm reminded of the mystical economy that yoga language can sometimes pull off

where a single sentence can carry an infinite number of meanings and applications.

The nervous system alerts to novelty and defaults to the known.

It can apply to personal and social psychology to our use of technology,

to learning and growing and personal relationships,

and to the long hard work of balancing stability and progress in political movements.

But Kim wasn't gregarious or overly poetic with language.

He was also super practical in a soft spoken way.

So this is where the title comes from today.

In the style of yoga he taught, we worked on postures slowly in many stages,

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