Permission To Be Bad

I started my job hunt a few months before college graduation. Being the eager, soon-to-be college grad (actually, I was probably more like the panicked grad, as I had student loans to pay back, rent, and other bills) that I was, I sent out hundreds of resumes. Most of the responses were the same —… Continue reading Permission To Be Bad

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The Style is No Style

There was a time when I cared quite a bit about which style of yoga I practiced because the style of yoga I practiced defined the practice of yoga for me. I had such a rigid idea of what yoga was back then. It was this not that; it looked like this, not that; it… Continue reading The Style is No Style

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Taken

I’m in a bit of a Tofurkey coma (I think I’m on protein overload) but I just couldn’t let this day pass without a little blogging. This morning I combined my favorite Thanksgiving Day tradition — a walk in the woods — with another favorite daily activity of mine — yoga. It was a warm,… Continue reading Taken

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The Joy of Never Getting There

“…I have been running so sweaty my whole lifeUrgent for a finish lineAnd I have been missing the rapture this whole time of being forever incomplete Ever unfoldingEver expandingEver adventurousAnd torturousAnd never done…” –Excerpted from Alanis Morissette’s Incomplete When I was new to the practice of yoga, I watched people in class executing more advanced… Continue reading The Joy of Never Getting There

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Hiding Out on the Mat

When I first heard the adage, “How you do one thing is how you do everything,” I was somewhat appalled. I wasn’t buying it. But it stuck in my head, rattled around and I realized that it’s true. I saw it from a yoga perspective — how I was on the mat was a direct… Continue reading Hiding Out on the Mat

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Poetry and Your Yoga Practice

“Poetry has a wild invitation to it — an invitation to a feast, to your life as a nourishing repast…Poetry reminds you that you’re a sacred frontier of experience. Only you can occupy that corner of the universe.” –David Whyte Years ago, I listened to the Clear Mind Wild Heart audio from one of my… Continue reading Poetry and Your Yoga Practice

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