Taking out the Trash: Goodbye 2011
As we pass the Solstice, the darkest night of the year, we are also entering into a New Moon cycle, which comes to a head on Christmas Day this Sunday.It’s dark out there. We’ve go…
Contributed by: Julie Peters
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As we pass the Solstice, the darkest night of the year, we are also entering into a New Moon cycle, which comes to a head on Christmas Day this Sunday.It’s dark out there. We’ve go…
The truth will set you free! So they say. Lately I’ve been wondering—set you free from what, exactly? Satya, or truthfulness, is one of Patanjali’s five Yamas, or precepts for li…
Have you ever had a giggle fit?I used to get them all the time when I was a kid—something would set me off and I would just lose it for minutes—the people around me would have stop…
Yoga has this wonderful quality of opening our minds and bodies at the same time. We get more physically flexible, and more mentally and emotionally so as well.We flow like water, …
“I always wanted to be somebody. Now I realize I should have been more specific.” ~Lily Tomlin A friend of mine recently shared with me something he learned from the philosopher O…
If you didn’t know me as a person, and all you knew about me was that I was a yoga teacher and a poet, you would probably think I was pretty boring. You’d think of poems filled wit…
If you had a time machine, would you speed forward into the future or relive the past?Someone asked me this once in a car on a road trip, and while my car-mates reminisced about ti…
I’m going to tell you a story.One day, there was a raging bull in the middle of the main street of a small village. None of the villagers could get past. Everyone was upset about t…
Yesterday, I wore as much purple as I could muster. Even my eyeshadow was purple.October 20th is Spirit Day: a day of awareness for bullying and suicides in the LGBT community. Coi…
I was once in a workshop with celeb-yogi extraordinaire Sadie Nardini, and she asked us a question that really stuck with me. I’m going to paraphrase here:“If you could tell the wo…
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