From an Instagram post I made 58 weeks ago when pandemic was young: 🌿My survival strategies: breathe, nature, allllllllll the immune-boosters, hand-washing (obvi), flower essences, kriya for the 10 bodies, metta meditation, extra dance parties, sewing, reading, cleaning the kitchen, frequent hugs from the people…
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The place where I teach yoga from home is my bedroom. Standing on my mat, I look east, and beyond the Douglas Fir who keeps time for the neighborhood, beyond the array of arborvitae and cedar trees in the mid-ground, beyond Rocky Butte, my eyes…
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Equinox Tomorrow day and night have equal weight, equal balance in the sky. What would it be like to tend equally to all of the layers of ourselves? Capitalist culture prioritizes our working lives and overtly “productive” facets of work at that, but what happens…
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I wanted to write from the amorphous abyss of the unknown, because this is the realm of Yoga. And so, here I write. From the early morning, waning moon darkness of the day following Election Day. I write from the very bottom of the exhalation…
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This post originated as a newsletter to my weekly subscribers. However, the question really struck a chord in my heart, so I wanted to expand on the topic here and offer more depth to the analysis. What are you known for? I recently received this…
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or the painting is on its own path. or our karmas are intertwined. I’m enrolled in a writing class at our local university this term. It’s a basic composition class, very similar to a writing class my first year of college nearly twenty-three years ago.…
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in order to do anything worth doing (i know that’s a big statement), i’ve had to die to a particular idea of who or what i am. leaving a respectable, lucrative career. having kids. traveling in any capacity away from my home/sanctuary of familiar. every…
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Dear Community, This next post began as a newsletter. I sent it out to my email list the other day. The outpouring of support that I have received from our yoga family here made me realize that I should probably share it here, publicly, as…
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hello, dearest ones. I’m fresh from my month long hiatus from social media and ready to report some of the data from this experiment. This is the second year I took an intentional break from posting, checking, logging in, looking at Instagram and Facebook. (I…
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Sweet doves, We’ve come to our third and final podcast in this series on the foundations of practice. (You can revisit the first two here & here.) As a reminder, these foundations come to us from 2.1 of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: tapah svadhyaya…
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