Tag: yoga
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Mountaintop View: I Finished My Yoga Teacher Training
I DID IT! I DID IT! YAY!!!!!!!!! I finished my Yoga Teacher Training!!! Please understand that I haven’t “accomplished anything” in years! To be standing at the top of the mountain: I forgot what this feels like! Even though I am very passionate about yoga, and I selected a very gentle program, completing this training…
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A Meditation Technique: Surfing the Breath
After spending numerous hours in meditation these last few months, I’ve come to the realization that I’ve uncovered a great meditation technique for staying focused and quieting the mind. As you look inward and subject yourself to the contents of you mind, thoughts will easily arise. Before, I would simply observe my breath: watch the inhales, watch…
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Passing Insights from a Meditation Master
Sometimes it seems as if life can be likened to a big game of chess: Pieces being moved about, each with their own attributes and capabilities. Forces from above, calculating: which way, and when to move. Black, white. Moving ahead, falling back. Last night I spent an hour with a Meditation Master, for the fourth time in the past…
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Awaken the Guru Within
“Ask, and you shall receive.” Standing just ten feet within the front door of the nearest “New Age” store, I was amazed to find exactly what I wanted. Even though I did not come to this store for them, there they were, all four of them: Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya, Sri Yukteswar Giri, and Paramahansa Yogananda. Just the other week…
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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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Fighting Fatigue One Scoop At a Time
Quite some time ago, a fellow from Norway private messaged me on my Yoga Page about a natural, simple sugar called d-ribose. Of course I thought the man was trying to sell me something, until I did a little research on the subject. Instantly, I was blown away by all of the positive reviews on…
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The Big Thaw
Profundity has pulled me from what I thought was a simple path. For quite some time I innocently drifted along. Feeling a strong urge to take myself into my next stage, I asked the universe to deliver: “I want to be trained in yoga professionally. I want to attend Yoga Teacher Certification Training.” Within a…
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Yoga Teacher Training: The Beginning, First Meditation & First Yoga Class
“If only we would let ourselves be dominated, like by some immense storm, then we would not need names.” -Rainer Maria Rilke This quote was shared by my new instructor during Savasana in my first class with her. It hit me so deeply. Once it hit, I removed my eye pillow in fear that I might…
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Strange Third Eye Dream
Last night I had this interesting dream. I shared it with my boyfriend and my best friend, but for some reason, I feel compelled to document it here as well. I’ve been practicing present moment awareness for three years now, and I realized this past week, that I’m able to spend most of my day…
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