Firm Back, Soft Front
When you wake up in the morning to meditate, sit with a firm back and soft front. Then in the course of your day, the spirit of firm back/soft front will stay with you. With firm back you are resilient, solid, unswerving. When the world goes topsy turvy, you “have at your …
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You Don’t Have to Prove Yourself
It is funny how we spend a lifetime trying to prove ourselves. We go for the grade, strive to be successful, do all we can to be liked. We all want to appear good in the eyes of others. When you look back, it is astonishing how much time you have …
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Being with the Bitter Sweet
You must know the bittersweet sentiment when a time of great change comes over you, leaving a feeling of aching joy. The tangy taste of the bittersweet is coming up for us this month, as we send off our only child to college. The masala of emotions is thick with feeling: joy and sorrow, gain and loss, relinquishing …
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Embodying the Seven Fundamental Tissues
In my own practice I have been inspired to go all the way back to the very building blocks of the body. I have asked myself, what are we made from? How do molecules, cells, membranes and fluids form to create structure? So I found myself turning to the the …
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The Face of God
In the era of Facebook, Zoom and Twitter, we are inundated by faces, faces of all kinds from immediately recognizable, celebrity faces to the faces of complete strangers. Two dimensional faces appear on the surface of our screens, faces made and manipulated, CGI constructed faces designed to look seductive or scary. On social media we encounter …
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The Zen of Oz
A Zen Moment of Awakening and Discovery It all started when Toto pulled back the curtain and revealed nothing but a puny man pulling on his levers. It was a very Zen moment– the bald head, the long black coat, the no God. After the trauma, getting banged on the …
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Be As You Are
It’s funny how we spend an entire lifetime trying to get somewhere. We struggle to get ahead in life, to make the grade, to get the big contract, to be liked on social media. Yoga and Spiritual Awareness A spiritual discipline is not immune to the mind that grasps. We …
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Somatic Movement and Yoga for Uterine Fibroids
Nurturing Uterine Health Through Somatic Movement and Yoga Growth of non-cancerous uterine cysts or fibroids are common and two out of three women develop them. They emerge from within the uterine lining or on the outer surface, sometimes as small as a grape seed or as large as a plumb. How …
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Seeing Clear to the Bottom
Flowing Like Water: Nurturing Adaptability and Clarity Water has been our theme this month. In practice, we have been moving in the Way of water, staying fluid and adaptable, always nourishing. We emulate water that is supple and soft yet can overcome the hardest thing. Water is humble for it has …
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Anatomy of the Deep Belly
Exploring the Mysteries of the Lower Belly in Yoga Practice The lower belly is the source of the body’s energy, singled out in yoga practice as the seat of personal power. In all of the internal arts from yoga to qi gung to tai chi, the physical vitality for the body resides …
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