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Adventures in Meditation – Learning to Stay
My mama said Baby don’t ride that crazy horse And my mama said You must push with much force And my mama said Go get all that you’re after And my mama said That love’s all that matters But I’m...
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National Stress Awareness Day – Life Yoga (5 Tips to Reduce Your Stress)
Today is National Stress Awareness Day. For real though, we don’t need a day to remind us that we have stress. It’s everywhere. On some days it seems that the stress starts from the second we wake...
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Yoga in Times Square- Mind Over Madness 2014
“Summertime is always the best of what might be.” ― Charles Bowden I love the summer. Call it nostalgia but warm weather makes anything possible. Maybe it’s because I’m not wrapped in layers of...
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Adventures in Yoga – Forgive Yourself
When I was in the third or fourth grade I discovered flavored lip gloss. Fantastic! It came in different colors, flavors and tasted faintly sweet. What’s not to love? One day, in CVS I saw some root...
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Adventures in Teaching Yoga- Riker’s Island (Liberation Prison Yoga)
“Comedy is acting out optimism.” -Robin Williams By some magnificent shift of the planets I woke at 5:30 feeling refreshed. The first thing I heard in my head was the last line of the Langston...
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Adventures in Teaching Yoga- Prison Yoga (Liberation Prison Yoga)
This is a teaching on a Tibetan word: shenpa. The usual translation of the word shenpa is attachment. If you were to look it up in a Tibetan dictionary, you would find that the definition was...
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Adventures in Teaching Yoga- Riker’s Island (Liberation Prison Yoga
8:20 am (On the Q100 to Riker’s) I was hesitant to write a post last week. It’s not because anything dramatic happened, just the opposite in fact. It was hot last and despite the air conditioning...
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Food Yoga – Meatless Monday! (Daal Tadka)
Happy Meatless Monday!! This week you may want to try lentils. My recipe this week is brought to you by the blog Zenfully Delicious. I love Indian food and Daal is an easy way to try something new....
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Adventures in Yoga Teaching – Riker’s Island (Liberation Prison Yoga)
My routine has formed. I’m also recognizing many of the drivers and COs. I really like Tuesdays. However, this week I was cautiously optimistic about what would take place in 3 South A, the...
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Start Now- Beginner Meditation (Audio included)
Meditation may seem intimidating if you’ve never done it before. Here are three tips to get you started: 1. Just try- don’t worry about being perfect, or getting it. The act of being still, even for...
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Doing Nothing and Being Still Are Not The Same Thing
photo credit wikipedia.com “Smile, breathe and go slowly.” ― Thích Nhất Hạnh Over a year ago, my practice became spotty. I’d been adjusting to a new schedule and trying to force old routines into...
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Saturday Yoga- Self Care
Happiness is an inside job. - William Arthur Ward Teaching is a strenuous activity. There’s a tangible and intangible exchange of energy. With a group of teenagers I have to corral the energy and...
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Monday Yoga- Every Passing Minute is Another Chance to Turn it All Around
Psst. You don’t have to fear Monday. For many years I used to suffer from ‘Sunday Night Jitters.’ Sometimes it was well-deserved. I may have been blown off homework and was cramming to get it...
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Rikers Island Yoga (Teaching in Prison)
We are all prisoners, undergoing a life sentence, imprisoned by our own minds. We are all seeking parole, being hostages of our own anger, fear, desire… it is a thin line that separates us from these...
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2015 ‘The Year of Living Mindfully’
Happy New Year! I’m dubbing 2015 the year of living mindfully. What does it mean to live a mindful life? It’s not about being serene or having an unrealistic vision of a state of constant peace....
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Money Yoga
Money and Life is a documentary that talks about where money comes from (thin air) and how it’s been turned into the way we live our lives and what we can do about it. Money & Life...
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Sunday Yoga – Mindfulness
Before I opened my eyes I heard the rain. More specifically, I heard traffic outside of my window driving on wet streets. Something about that sound made me pay attention. As I stretched and yawned...
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Tuesday Yoga – Staying Tethered
When i’m too distracted, it”s easy to slip away from my spirit and connection with my true self. So even when I’m confronting something uncomfortable I breathe in and exhale the thoughts that don’t...
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Wednesday Yoga – Les Brown Style
I love Les Brown. I first heard of him as a kid from my Dad. Over the years I’ve read a few of his books, but didn’t really appreciate what he was saying until recently. Brown talks a lot about how...
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