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Thursday Yoga – The Power of ‘I’m Sorry’
Photo adventures in grace I was bad at saying I’m sorry. Sometimes, I’m still pretty shitty at it. I read that when somewhere that when we say I’m sorry we are really trying to forgive ourselves for...
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Tuesday Yoga – Staying Tethered
When i’m too distracted, it”s easy to slip away from my spirit and connection with my true self. So even when I’m confronting something uncomfortable I breathe in and exhale the thoughts that don’t...
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Money Yoga
Money and Life is a documentary that talks about where money comes from (thin air) and how it’s been turned into the way we live our lives and what we can do about it. Money & Life...
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Adventures in Teaching Yoga- Riker’s Island (Liberation Prison Yoga)
“Comedy is acting out optimism.” -Robin Williams By some magnificent shift of the planets I woke at 5:30 feeling refreshed. The first thing I heard in my head was the last line of the Langston...
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Adventures in Yoga – Forgive Yourself
When I was in the third or fourth grade I discovered flavored lip gloss. Fantastic! It came in different colors, flavors and tasted faintly sweet. What’s not to love? One day, in CVS I saw some root...
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Keep Your Eyes on Your Own F*#&ing Mat – Response to Jen Caron
(There isn’t a big juicy rant ahead, so be warned. I decided to think before I wrote. Please know that the calm state of mind in which I wrote this post does not reflect the normally snarky way I...
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Stand Here, in This Place – Adventures in Yoga
I wasn’t able to get out of my own way this week. Out of sync. And because I like nothing more than making matters worse, I tried to rush each day along. Futile and insane. We’ve all done it, tried to...
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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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Kayak Yoga – Fall Seven Times, Stand Up Eight
Maybe it’s the yoga, maybe it’s because I’m getting older, maybe it’s because I have a newfound sense of freedom since I got my bike- but I’ve been up for trying new things. This was not always so. I...
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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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Ding Dong Goes the Inversion Practice
I zipped downstairs to an early hot power vinyasa practice with friend Jessica Ashen. She’s a yogi and founder of Spiritual Pretzels Yoga. Jessica brings donation based yoga all over Jersey City. It’s...
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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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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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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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Adventures in Yoga- Progress at a Snail’s Place
I don’t love practicing in the morning. This means of course that I learn big lessons. I think this is what happens when you don’t move mindfully or meet life with resistance. During the commuter...
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Relocation Frustration aka Moving Yoga
I had this plan that I would smoothly transition from my old place to my new place. Ha. Cue raucous laugh track. My move was more than just a new place to sleep. It was symbolic of a new life. Though...
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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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Adventures in Yoga (Part Two)- Love, Sweat and Tears…The Sweat Lodge Ceremony
You are coming You are coming among us. We have everything prepared for you and we are waiting. - From The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge: History and Contemporary Practice My silent retreat in the...
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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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