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To paraphrase John Lennon, life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans
and my usual motto, life is full of surprises One year ago today, my best friend, Deborah Joy, passed away gracefully after a short and brutal bout of cancer. After decades of friendship, I always thought we would grow old together. In fact it was part of my plan. I met Deborah Joy at the…
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Finding what I didn’t know was lost
Life is full of surprises In late 1992, my voice teacher, Ruth Golden, informed all her students that we would be having lessons in the Alexander Technique. An Alexander teacher she collaborated with named Joseph Lee was coming from out of town and my next voice lesson would be co-taught by the two of them..…
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Who am I?
You are what you eat! My Italian gynecologist hated when I extolled the importance of food. “You are what your genetics make you!” she would scold. My teacher, Sharon Gannon, says that the body is made of past karmas. Joni Mitchell says, “We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year-old carbon.” In fact,…
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What we believe, and what we carry
When I told her about the oats, Gilly said, Deborah Joy was a great believer in porridge. This morning felt like autumn, and I made oatmeal for breakfast, what my Kiwi friends call porridge. I make porridge from steel cut oats. Steel cut oats are different from rolled oats, which are what most people think…
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The forgotten point
Where to find the missing time Most days, you can find me teaching public yoga classes. In a format of 60 or 95 minutes we undergo a set of activities rooted in the Jivamukti method, which has 14 points of practice. If you know the 14 points, you will find them in my class –…
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The end of situationships
I feel like I left a situationship and got married. Seven years ago, my 20 year relationship with freelancing ended. My employer and I committed to each other and I couldn’t be happier. No more endless hustle, counting heads in class to calculate my pay, trying to elbow my way to the busiest class times,…
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Commit to something
and make sure you have a spiritual practice. I saw a meme posted by a yoga school the other day that said something like, “Yoga is not a trend but a daily practice.” When I first started practicing yoga, it was still weird, mysterious, before social media, in the early days of the internet. Yoga…
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Everyone will die: practice yoga now
Last weekend, I spoke at my second funeral this summer. In March, one of the pillars of my life abruptly became terminally ill. A second followed in May. The kind of news that everyone dreads, with terrifying keywords: metastatic, huge, inoperable, no treatment. They both passed away this summer, in June and August respectively. Spiritual…
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Tara Sullivan 