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Adventures in Yoga Teaching – New Teacher Update!!
photo credit Etsy It’s been about three months since I finished my teacher training. I’ve already learned a ton, check it: I love teaching yoga. I’m excited before I go to sleep and smiling when I wake...
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Food Yoga – The Slow Food Movement
photo credit nourishnetwork.com What is the Slow Food Movement anyway? While browsing Black Girls Guide To Weight Loss I read a great article on the Slow Food Movement. I went to the website...
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Peace
So much trouble in the world So much trouble in the world All you gotta do is give a little - Bob Marley Loka Samastha Sukino Bhavantu.
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Pranayama Yo – Things Can Only Get Better
I have this thought that keeps turning right round like a record. It’s a grand idea, maybe even crazy but I can’t help it, when I’m inspired- look out. To paraphrase the genius Howard Jones while I do...
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Adventures in Yoga Teaching- Back on Track
Friday was beautiful round these parts. I was strolling home from my community class taking in the sights when I bumped into Daba Briggs, one of my yoga inspirations. Daba is the kind of teacher the...
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Adventures in Yoga Teaching – You Need a Blog.
I’m a baby when it comes to new media. It’s a wild west of words in a new world. It seems that everyone is writing. Social media is becoming literary. I know it may make the more conservative readers...
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Adventures in Teaching Yoga – Who Are My Students?
You know what? There’s something that isn’t discussed that I didn’t really hear until after I started teaching. It’s been my biggest lesson so far. I’m sorry that I haven’t talked about it earlier. As...
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Adventures in Teaching Yoga – Being Wrong Feels So Right
I was wr- wr- wr- wrong about something. Clearly this yoga ish works because despite the false starts, in the past the word wrong was the ‘he who shall not be named’ of my vocabulary. Back up, back...
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Why So Serious? Maintaining Joy in Your Practice
A few days ago a teacher encouraged me to come to class two days per week with nothing but a mindset of letting go. I’m thinking too much. I’ll wait for the shock and awe to sink in. *crickets* This...
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Mind Over Madness 2013
Summer. Summer. Summer. This is my time. Like millions of others the world over, I celebrated the solstice. It’s a day that is filled with nostalgia and possibility. On an island off the East Coast-...
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Adventures in Yoga – Trust Me and Surrender
I talk a lot about the idea of letting go. And the truth is I really mean what I say, but saying it over and over again can sound at best repetitive and at worst, disingenuous. It got me to thinking-...
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Bicycle Yoga
Life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein. I bought a bike a few days ago. Sweet. I’ve been talkin’ smack for weeks (months) about getting a bike. I’m...
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Adventures in Yoga – Don’t Get Mad at the Pose, It Didn’t Do Anything
I’ve had a scuffle or two with some of my least favorite poses. Namaste y’all
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Adventures in Yoga- When Writing and Yoga Collide
However, a few weeks ago I spent an afternoon with Kathleen Kraft- poet and yogi. Kathleen hosted a workshop where we were able to spend time connecting body, breath and words. I can’t tell you how...
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Chalkboard Yoga, Fresh Starts and All That.
You don’t have to wait for the New Year for a fresh start. Amanda McDonald, yoga teacher wrote a status update that made high five my Mac. Why are we so resistant to just solving problems, instead of...
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September is Hunger Action Month
Here are some sobering facts about hunger in the US. (Courtesy Do Something) 1 in 6 people in America face hunger. Households with children reported a significantly higher food insecurity rate than...
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Vegan Diaries- Building a Pantry
A delicious, nutritious meal is easy to prepare on the day you come home from the grocery store. But as the food dwindles, the urge to order take-out or grab unhealthy frozen pizza grows. Unplanned...
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Laughter Yoga
All you need in the world is love and laughter. That’s all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other. August Wilson Have you heard of Laughter Yoga? Laugh for No Reason by...
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Renewing Your Spirit – 5 Ways to Do It
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.” - George Eliot There’s something about autumn that I love and...
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Open Letter to a Yoga Teacher
Dear Katherine- When I realized that you were teaching class today I got nervous first and choked up, second. Your standing bow pose looks at me every time I walk into the locker room. But taking...
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