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More Moment, Less Striving: OmCakes
This morning I’m experimenting with a white bean & pear pancake, listening to Sunday Edition and simply soaking up home: the way the light trickles and dashes through windows and prisms creating p… more →
meeting myself on the mat, every day, in search of love, truth & beauty.... will you join me?
Books, take 2
balancedwhole wrote 3 days ago: After listing the book recommendations the other day, I picked up the new Yoga Journal, which has a … more →
More Moment, Less Striving: OmCakes
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Christine wrote 2 months ago: This morning I’m experimenting with a white bean & pear pancake, listening to Sunday Edition and … more →
Yoga Sutra Conversations I.35: "By regular inquiry into the role of the senses we can reduce mental distortions."
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Christine wrote 9 months ago: What is the relationship between our senses and our minds? Whether this is a bottom up or top down s … more →
Yoga Sutra Conversations I.34: "The practice of breathing exercises involving extended exhalation might be helpful." ~T.K.V. Desikachar, tr.
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Christine wrote 9 months ago: I recently dowloaded and listened to a meditation course that was recorded during a retreat with the … more →
Yoga Sutra Conversations I.33: "By cultivating attitudes of friendliness toward happiness, compassion toward suffering, delight toward virtue, and equanimity toward vice, thoughts become purified, and the obstacles to self-knowledge are lessened."
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Christine wrote 9 months ago: “This week’s sutra ought to be emblazoned in all public places.” ~Dharmayoga “I’ve … more →
Yoga Sutra Conversations 1:32 "In order to prevent these obstacles from arising, you should habituate yourself to meditation upon a single principle."
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Christine wrote 10 months ago: So far in the Sutras we have been told that conscious awareness, or awareness of Being in the presen … more →
Yoga Sutra Intro..
Christine wrote 10 months ago: Since we’re joining a conversation in progress, I thought I’d give you a cheap and dirty … more →
Yoga Sutra Conversations with Jenni & Kate
Christine wrote 10 months ago: Picking up in the middle is the fate of all humanity. We always wake up, when we awaken, in the mids … more →
Metaphor is Powerful; Yoga is Powerful
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Christine wrote 1 year ago: We’ve just witnessed the power of metaphor on the national stage, and yoga asana practice is d … more →
We're All Citizens
Christine wrote 1 year ago: “Yoga” means “union”. Today in the United States of America we vote for who … more →
Yoga Thoughts on Ashtanga, ~Amy Nobles Dolan
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Christine wrote 1 year ago: Amy Nobles Dolan teaches yoga in Wayne Pennsylvania and writes a blog at Yoga With Spirit. She exem … more →
Press Down to Lift Up: shoulderstand, the up side down way to learn to reach your dreams
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Christine wrote 1 year ago: One of the most delicious and maddening things about being human is having dreams. I’m not jus … more →
Bow Down & Open Up
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Christine wrote 1 year ago: Sometimes, most times in fact, the best way to address large projects is to take up the small things … more →
Good for what ails you...
Christine wrote 1 year ago: One of the most difficult kinds of questions to field as a yoga teacher is “What does yoga do? … more →
Embrace, Empower, Evolve
Christine wrote 1 year ago: I asked Hillary to guest blog on the occasion of releasing her first DVD, Yoga Foundations, because … more →
Yoga & Business
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Christine wrote 1 year ago: Yoga is about big ideas & everyday moments, making the theoretical practical and living out idea … more →
Savasana is the hardest of all
Christine wrote 1 year ago: Sometimes savasana is the last thing I want to do. I rarely miss asana in the morning, and like I wa … more →
It's all material....
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Christine wrote 1 year ago: “Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life its … more →
Practice for the life you want
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Christine wrote 1 year ago: Practice for the life you want. I think a lot about what makes yoga different from other forms of … more →
