March 2012
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Ashley Turner's Recommended Yoga & Chakra Books &... →
February 2012
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Rebound on the Yoga Mat →
this article is too truth-telling to not post.
note to self: my own stories to come…
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awesome karmic yoga organizations round-up!
this post is a work in progress. more will be added.
my friend recently asked me if i knew of any yoga organizations worth looking into for work post-graduation. here’s a round-up:
YOGA FOR SINGLE MOMS - Boston & NYC
Our mission is to provide valuable information and instruction for using yoga as a mind/body resource along the path of single motherhood. We partner with yoga spaces...
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“Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest...”
– Haruki Murakami (via inspiringoneatatime)
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“The real measure of practice is whether, little by little, we can find our edge,...”
– Yogajournal.com Wisdom Newsletter
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Smart Phone Apps to Propel Your Spiritual Practice →
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It's Not Too Late to Become a Yoga Believer →
By Jane Brody, from the New York Times.
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“Face and solve today’s problems. Don’t worry needlessly about tomorrow’s...”
– Melody Beattie (via whereverimayfindme)
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Four Steps to Kicking Yoga Teacher Burnout in the... →
The main message I get out of this Elephant Journal article:
fall In Love with your practice. over & over again.
Beannacht/Blessing ~ a poem I heard in yoga today...
On the day when
the weight deadens
on your shoulders
and you stumble,
may the clay dance
to balance you.
And when your eyes
freeze behind
the grey window
and the ghost of loss
gets in to you,
may a flock of colours,
indigo, red, green,
and azure blue
come to awaken in you
a meadow of delight.
When the canvas frays
in the currach of thought
and a stain of ocean
blackens beneath...
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“Yoga yesterday is memory, yoga tomorrow is theory. But my yoga practice is this...”
– My fellow yogini & dear friend, Laine Armstrong, from The Sunset Yoga Project
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“When you show up, the wall becomes a door.”
– Dana Trixie Flynn, at today’s amazing Lotus Flow workshop at Pure Yoga
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“The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither...”
– Deepak Chopra (via moreofamore)
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“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
– Joseph Campbell
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“Creativity is a deeply meditative practice, and meditation is a deeply creative...”
– Dani Shapiro, from this article in The Well Daily
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Sunflower Sutra by Allen Ginsberg
Sunflower Sutra
I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and
sat down under the huge shade of a Southern
Pacific locomotive to look at the sunset over the
box house hills and cry.
Jack Kerouac sat beside me on a busted rusty iron
pole, companion, we thought the same thoughts
of the soul, bleak and blue and sad-eyed,
surrounded by the gnarled steel roots of trees of
machinery.
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Yoga Private Lessons: The Meaning of Dharma →
yogaprivatelessons:
Written by David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva)
Note article on Tathaastu Magazine Jan.-Feb. 2011 by Pandit Vamadeva (David Frawley) Toward a New Dharmic Vision of Humanity Dharma is perhaps the key term for the great spiritual traditions of India and East Asia, Hindu and Buddhist, whether…
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“Breathing is just a rhythm. Tell yourself this so that the breathing
becomes a...”
– Karen McCadden, as published in Issue 6 of PANK magazine. If you like this, go check out or buy the rest of Issue 6! (via bostonpoetryslam)
a gorgeous poem, reminding us to breathe.
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“The wound is the place where the light enters the body”
– Rumi (via paperlover)
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“You need to go where you feel loved and appreciated. Go where the love is.”
– Allie, a young Rabbi from the BK
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Yoga Poses of the Week - from an awesome fellow... →
anya used yoga poses to characterize her day in this article, each class taking on a different pose. that’s pretty freaking awesome. right now, sitting at a cafe, starting on my work for the week, i feel like i am standing in tadasana, mountain pose, grounding into the flow, setting intentions, & prepping body, mind & spirit for a big week!
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“Giving what we can of our time, our energy, and our goods, helps create the kind...”
– Anonymous
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“We all find ourselves uncertain at times. We all get stuck. And we’re not always...”
– Debra from Flow Yoga Center
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6 Qualities of a Good Yoga Teacher (from MBG) →
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ritual, health, & healing critical reflection...
when i mentioned that, for a grand total of 2.5 credits, i am taking acrobatic yoga & thai massage, as well as a class entitled “ritual, health, & healing,” my yoga teacher told me that it looks like i am majoring in english and feminist, gender, & sexuality studies and minoring in Awesome.
sounds good to me.
and that is what this semester is beginning to feel like....
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Devotional Spirit with Alanna Kaivalya →
I sleuthed my way to Alanna Kaivalya’s class at Greenhouse Holistic in Williamsburg. And this is what I had to say about my beloved teacher.
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on trusting that everything is exactly where it... →
i have been having one of those days where my life seems to look like this:
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so needless to say, i needed to read this. everything is exactly where it should be. that is a mantra if i’ve ever heard one.
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When High-Achievers Do Yoga →
The New York Times continues with their yoga enthusiasm! Fave quotes:
Krishna in the Bhagvad-Gita defines them: karma yoga (the yoga of action), bhakti yoga (the yoga of devotion) and jnana yoga (the yoga of knowledge). Volunteering at a soup kitchen is yoga; raising your voice in praise in a gospel choir is yoga; trying to understand how the galaxies shift and why the poor lack shoes is also...
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“When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to...”
– Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron
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“In my opinion, we need to get over our yogier-than-thou, lack-oriented mindset...”
– Sadie Nardini, from her Elephant article, “Can Money & Spirituality Mix?”
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“we express flair in so many different ways - from the food we eat to the way we...”
– kimberly wilson, in her tranquilosophy post
today, my flair is in
* wearing my mala beads as a bracelet
* my scrabble “S” ring
* glitter on my yoga mat
*red dyed freakin curly hair
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Fear & Abundance: Get Comfortable with Yourself →
i know - i’m link-lovin today! but that’s just what happens with spacious mornings…
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can schools create a culture of learning by doing? →
i say yes.
and how? through yoga. no, not merely asana practice. schools can do this through karma, through service, and through using time on the mat as a testtube for that. at least, that is my intention for this spring semester at school - to learn by doing. what does this involve?
taking an acrobatic yoga & thai massage student forum (yes, that’s one credit! i have a yoga teacher...