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APPLAUSE FOR SEEKERS
The assumptions of my inherited culture: the Euro-American, Lutheran-Christian, dualist WASP-centric perspectives have shaped my perceptions and limit my ability to truly inhabit the culture of others. But I am open to understanding others and in spite of my conditioning, I’m positioned like a hungry-man at a feast; I taste the food, but the flavor…
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Yoga Inspirationals: The Western Diaspora
The movement became unpredictable, and while nobody took credit, yoga unveiled a curtain and people looked through the mirror to a radiance within. Westlanders were distracted; they didn’t listen to gurus and didn’t read books, but they took to their mats and became present with themselves. They remembered their joy and opened like the petals…
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ITS NOT JUST EXERCISE
They practice yoga in a 104 degree room when it’s 105 outside. They come from all walks of life: age, race, physical condition, gender, profession, and status. But they all do YOGA to sharpen their mind and focus their will. They show up to strengthen their bodily systems, to ground their minds in the present…
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Slow Down and Breathe
Slow Down and Breathe Yogis have been attempting to articulate the importance of pranayama for centuries, and the effort is still relevant because when a person starts yoga it doesn’t take long for them to realize its a breath centric practice which changes everything. The practice of pranayama is an important observance by itself,…
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Yoga Inspirationals number 61.
https://www.asanajournal.com/tradition-rumps-rendiness/
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TRUE PRESENCE Yoga Inspirationals number 58
https://www.asanajournal.com/true-presence/
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Writer/Yogi/Teacher
LOOK WHO IS “DOING IT” WRITING ABOUT YOGA! Darlene D’arezzo Maryam Ovissi Gregory Ormson Deborah Crooks LOOK WHO IS “DOING IT” WRITING ABOUT YOGA.
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BREATHE, LIVE, BE.
When yoga teaches us to breathe with ease and move in awareness, and when we learn to arrive at a pose – and life – with equanimity, that memory is lodged as experience in the body. In this way, yoga’s therapeutic forges a connection between the physical and non-physical. It works…
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discovering yoga’s emotional body
Yoga inspirational number 36, published in YOGI TIMES, March, 2016. Update 3/27/18 Louie Netz, Director for Harley-Davidson’s Styling and Graphics Department, once said: “Form and function both report to emotion.” It’s likely when observing the stylish symmetry of a Harley-Davidson, or a yoga pose in perfect aligment, to believe motorcycling is about the eye-catching chrome…
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Mantra: Power of Word yogainspirationals number 12
Mantra: The Power of Word Mantra is Sanskrit for a word or phrase that the yogi repeats during practice or meditation. Its benefits include anything from improved concentration to “feats making the impossible possible,” according to Dr. Gautam Chatterjee, a prolific author who coined the term positive mantra. An empowering and healing word-based mantra starts as a…