Tag: meditation
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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…