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good news Friday — yoga scholarships!
meditation hall, Spirit Rock Many of you know that I was in the first Mindfulness Yoga and Meditation Training at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. The 18 month program ran from...
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a question of semantics?
Carol Horton’s post on Tara Stiles’ book still has legs so I thought I would add my two rupees here as a post. I’m a jazz freak and usually listen to what is considered “real jazz” (as a Sirius XM …...
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October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month
I am a survivor. That is why my seva is at my local domestic violence shelter for almost 10 years now. It is my favorite class to teach because my students are also my teachers. Someone you know is a …...
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just an old-fashioned girl
Last night in class I only had two students. Believe it or not, this no longer bothers me — I show up and I teach. Despite how “mainstream” yoga people love to believe yoga is nowadays — and I would …...
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yoga and the evolutionary process
No, not yoga and evolution. Yoga and YOUR evolution. Change. I’ve been thinking a lot about what my student said in class the other night, about what she thinks “real yoga” is. It was her belief that...
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in my humble opinion
Sergio DiazGranados of the Yoga Teacher Training website contacted me for an interview when I wrote the “babies teaching babies” post. He also published an interview with David Frawley so I am in good...
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yoga in OMerika: what $95 buys
$95 bought that logo. I don’t consider my posts about the Yoga Alliance as rants, although I am sure some would consider them as such. I consider them a public yoga education. I am reporting my own...
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re-inspired for #realyoga
This year has been on-again, off-again for me insofar as yoga. While I am always grateful for the small, group classes I teach out of my house, the private yoga biz, i.e,. one-on-one yoga/yoga...
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karma yoga and yoga community
October is Domestic Violence Awareness month and before it ends I want to make you aware of statistics on domestic violence. This is a post I wrote last year with things that may shock you. Or not....
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teaching trauma sensitive yoga
Last year I wrote a three part series on trauma sensitive yoga after my training at The Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts. I posted the series on the LinkedIn page of the International...
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Modern American Yoga (TM)
I no longer write as prolifically as I once did. I started this blog in 2005 and the Yoga Blogosphere as changed tremendously in 10 years. Modern Yoga Bloggers have forgotten whom their elders are....
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A student’s story: Real Yoga
What I do. My work is akin to that of a Medicine Woman. I dose intuitively as any good Medicine Woman does. What one student has to say, reprinted with permission. “If talking did shit, we’d all be...
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what are they teaching out there?
The other night I was one of the speakers on this panel discussion in Chicago. April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and I was invited to be on this panel by The Breathe Network. The Breathe...
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diversity in Yoga — again
Back in 2007 when people used to read me, I wrote a post about the Color of Yoga asking why American Yoga is such a white thang. Seven years later my friend and yoga teacher Oreste Prada said it was...
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Sri Desikachar has died – June 21, 1938 – August 8, 2016
“The light has expanded and is continuing to guide us beyond boundaries of space and time. After an extraordinary life of service and healing, Sir TKV Desikachar reached the lotus feet of the lord on...
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do I need to be anointed to be credible?
So much goes on in the Modern Yoga World (TM) now that it’s hard to keep up without it sounding like a constant rant. Maybe I should just write about what actor or rock star does yoga, post a photo...
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“Stripping the Sacred”– Brenda Feuerstein
“Teach people, not poses.” — Gary Kraftsow (paraphrased) “Yoga contains asana, pranayama, meditation. Anything else is acrobatics.” (TKV Desikachar, from a long ago intensive in India) Many of you know...
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“Spiritual Bypassing and the Dangers of Well Meaning Platitudes”– DeAnna Shires
Since 2005 this blog has been available to guest bloggers. If you have something you want to get out into the Yoga Blogosphere but don’t have your own blog, contact me about your subject and we’ll...
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children’s yoga
Overheard a long time ago: “People can learn to bend over and touch their toes (or rather, re-learn since they could do that as a child), and yet that isn’t necessarily yoga.” I read a story about a...
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