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Getting it unbackwards…
I’ll admit: I’m hardheaded. I used to date a guy from England who frequently referenced my “sheer bloodymindedness”. Someone else once asked, “You just sit there and *look*, don’t you?” Yep....
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The case for uninvention…
Every spring, I get keenly enthused about making big changes and getting things back on course. Spring is more the coming of the new year for me than the proper New Year holiday mark – everything is...
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Shaken and Pilate’d…
This week, I decided to find out how Pilates would work at helping my core and back restrengthen. I get core work in my yoga practice, but wanted something to mix it up a little. Plus, I remembered...
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An icy cold bucket of what if…
Fact: Since I jumped right off the 40 Days to Personal Revolution boat when I started one during the summer, I decided to jump back on a couple of weeks ago. (I’m just into the third week.) Another...
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Teaching moment…
Teaching yoga is as much a learning experience me as it is those I’m instructing. In fact, I don’t even like the view that I’m just instructing – teaching yoga is about co-creating an experience. For...
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Tug…
Everything that happens has impact on all levels. You may not feel it, but you “feel” it somewhere, and it adds up to the amazing collective that makes you who you are. Case in point: I’m excited...
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Better…
“I can’t wait to be back in shape.” That was my mantra for a while. Remember all the purging I wrote about? Yeah – NONE of that involved my smaller jeans. They’re in a suitcase, folded, waiting....
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A moment of reaction…
Yes, I am a yoga teacher. I own a yoga studio. But all of the work I encourage others to do is something I also have to practice myself. I have moments of high level reaction just like anyone. I do...
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The writing dilemma…
Why does my blog stall? Why do I stop writing? Because I don’t know what to write about. I think I need topics, things, subjects – something “interesting”. These things, theoretically, come from my...
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Yoga with dogs…
I just had one of those “give up” practices. My practice usually starts with a foundation of Journey Into Power – the Baptiste sequence. I go with it and flow into variations that feel good....
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Weekend…
I have no intentions this weekend beyond getting on my yoga mat, breathing into every feeling and sensation that comes up, and moving through that – – whether what’s summoned is playful or grounding or...
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40 Days…
It started as me telling my studio team about a class special for November – 40 days of yoga for $40. A teacher said, “Oh! I thought you were announcing a 40 Days!” And, well, off we went. Baron...
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A little bit of vitality…
And into the second week of the 40 Days – Vitality. Irony of that? I have a cold. Got a sub for my class this evening, ran the errands I absolutely had to run, stopped for what amounts to a Pacific...
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The jade cage…
Earlier this week I posted about having come down with a cold at the very start of the second week of the 40 Days, and how that was helping me explore and embrace space and ease. Well, it helped me...
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Whoa, Nelly – I mean 40 days…
Having week three of the 40 Days, Equanimity – which has always been my doozy week – converge with Thanksgiving week was a wee bit of an eye opener. I’m having to break out my journal to share this...
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On relaxing with what is…
I knew I was in for it, and big time, when I started to lose my voice just before teaching Monday night. The cold, the damned cold, that had me for a bit but that I’ve been fighting and fighting over...
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And just like that…
The 40 Days is really a wrap? Really? Tomorrow is the last day. As ready as I am to tie this one up, I also don’t want to let go of it. It was my deepest experience with the 40 Days since my first...
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