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The alchemy of yoga
I read this article written by Tim Miller, a well-respected and devoted Ashtanga teacher in Encinitas. In the article, he talks about the transformative power of the Ashtanga yoga in terms of asana practice and describes pretty clearly the eight-limbed path or philosophy of the Ashtanga system and how they are intertwined. Thoughts?
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Winter Song
Estes Park, CO I’ve lived in Southern California for about 13 years now and winter here is definitely not the winter I experienced in Washington State. At the moment my mother reports a ‘balmy’ 22 degrees in my hometown (that’s farenheit not celcius) and there is snow on the ground and the “north-easter’s a blowin”…
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Someone else’s shoes
“I used to have a sign pinned up on my wall that read: ‘Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us.” — Pema Chödrön (When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times) I can get really caught up in my…
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Spiritually fed
I had to share this.Like a lot of people, money continues to be a struggle for me. It was difficult for me to write the newsletter this month about finances. As a yoga teacher, I try to incorporate the ideas, aka practice what I preach. The art of allowing for space for abundance in my life. The idea…
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Thoughts on Yoga Philosophy
As I continue my education as a teacher and a student of yoga, I find there are things that I’d like to share. Different discoveries and insights have given me new ways of thinking about yoga and my own life. In a recent teacher training, my teacher and fellow students were discussing the Western focus…
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A letter to our supporters
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all of your support.We started this in January 2010 as a means to provide qualitative yoga instruction at a financially available rates to support the space and our teachers. The donations we have received have not been enough to sustain the space or our teachers. We…
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Holidays
As the Holidays approach, I am taking the time to think and reflect about the past year before I plunge into the season. I say plunge because this is such a period of time where I can either be in the happiness or merriment of the season or swim through a turbulent and emotional fraught…
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Peace
If you haven’t been tuned into any media resources, John Lennon would have been 70 this year. Reflecting on his life has been much of the focus and I don’t want to repeat a lot of what has already been said for the sake of writing about John Lennon. But in my own reflections about…
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Outside the Lens….
I think that this is one way we can take our practice off our mat.Today I was SO happy to be able to donate 2 older digital cameras to my friend Debi to take with her to Africa. The Daraja Project The more I learn about this project, the more grateful I am to live…
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Unearthing
There’s a quote from Proust that I am reminded of: “We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last…
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