Tag: Savasana
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Rumbles & Ripples: What We Create Within, Affects Without
All too often, anymore these days, the situation that is presented in front of me is a complete dichotomy: yin and yang. For example, recently on a very stormy evening, just three people showed up to my class. One wanted a very relaxing yoga session. The other two wanted balls to the wall action. It wasn’t…
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Yoga: Free Videos for a Beginner’s Gentle At-Home Practice
We’re all so accustomed to looking outside of ourselves for answers, for direction, even for stimulation, but happens when one decides to practice one of the most introverted exercises out there? When I started my own yoga practice, it was nine years before I even stepped foot into a yoga studio. Why was that? Well, for…
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Falcon-headed Mary
Mind never ceases to amaze me. If we are open enough, we are able to realize that mind is not just what is in our heads. Mind is universal: an open field of consciousness. In moments of deep mediation, usually after a yoga practice where I am able to let go of every fiber of my…
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Sinking Higher
The lights lowered as our class rested back into Savasana. For the past hour we all spent contorting ourselves, wringing out every last bit of tension. There is nothing like a well-deserved Savasana. As the music lingered on, the faint sounds of chirping had me believing I was drifting through the Amazon, lost deep within…
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