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Was God a Victim of Child Abuse?
by Catherine Ghosh on Apr 15, 2011
How odd then that these ancient Sanskrit texts deliver stories of pure love in external narrative casings or packages that so closely resemble the most impure, damaging social traits! (Like violence towards children.)903 views
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Q + A with Anusara Yoga Founder John Friend. Guess What He Said About Kundalini Shakti?!
by Lindsey Lewis on Apr 15, 2011
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Radical Self-Acceptance?
by Yogi Michael Boyle on Apr 15, 2011
Stage 3 is called "radical" because it is a huge step from our normal experience of life. Many people live life doing the "stage 1-2 cha-cha-cha", dancing back and forth between "letting their hair down" and "getting their act together." Many never ever achieve the TOTAL self-acceptance of stage 3, which is requisite to having total acceptance of others and unconditional love.1,585 views
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Exodus: The Rest of the Story—What Do You Think They Did After They Were Freed?
by Philip Goldberg on Apr 15, 2011
"Did the Hebrews go to Milk and Honey Real Estate and purchase a parcel of land?...I dug out a Bible and … well folks, hide the children, this one is R rated..."912 views
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Let Me Tell You About The Time I Died~ via Carlston Floyd.
by Benjamin Riggs on Apr 15, 2011
At the end of all things, despite my best efforts to revive myself, the whole experience was revealed to be a choice: I could choose to move beyond the veil without ego and its tools or rest in hell.880 views
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Be On The Table.
by Joana Smith on Apr 15, 2011
Baby Noanaiah isn't just a baby anymore, she's a spice girl! Get to know her in Poppyland!244 views
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24 Things: The Letting Go Challenge starts today.
by Marylee Fairbanks on Apr 15, 2011
If any place can teach you not to over identify with things, it is this crooked, mysterious, charmed, old house. It has seen us mere mortals come and go, but she still stands. She knows we were not the first to live under her protection, and will not be the last.5,830 views
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Beginning Again Can Be Even Better Than Actually Beginning.
by Amy Nobles Dolan on Apr 15, 2011
A student of mine took an unplanned break from yoga. She had no idea when she rolled up her mat that it would be 4 months until she next unrolled it. She didn’t decide to stop. Her life simply shifted, creating a crack wide enough for her practice to slip through. “It’s pretty amazing how much I lost,” she said after her first class back.442 views
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The Poetry of Yoga Final Notice: Submissions End April 15th at Midnight.
by HawaH on Apr 14, 2011
Please send your poetry in directly through the website (ThePoetryOfYoga.com)... if you haven't already, or share this invite with your friends.391 views
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Yoga in an Age of Anxiety: Sowing Seeds of Transformative Possibility and Magic.
by Carol Horton on Apr 14, 2011
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Are Polar Bears a Good Indicator for the Effects of Climate Change? ~ Ashley Warner
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 14, 2011
As such, it seems that polar bear populations are not the best sign of global warming.94 views
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elephantjournal.com hiring: Job Description.
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 14, 2011
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How to get ahead using sex (transmutation).
by Tom Rapsas on Apr 14, 2011
Successful people tend to be highly sexed. ~Napolean Hill642 views
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Yoga is This, Not That
by Bethany Eanes on Apr 14, 2011
Will this be the teacher of the future? Polished, marketed, with a great iPod playlist, delivering a sweaty sequence but devoid of any knowledge of where it all comes from? No Patanjali, no Yogananda, no Iyengar, no Bhajan?236 views
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Colorado Says NO! to GMO’s—Rally on 4/16! ~ Heather Henning
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 14, 2011
This march/rally is intended to raise awareness to the dangers of GMO's. Please join us while we make our voices heard.121 views
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The Warrior in your Belly. ~ JC Peters
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 14, 2011
Have you ever been in a yoga class where the teacher is leading you through a series of crunches, or core planks, or boat poses, and you just get this image in your head of punching that teacher in her smug little face?1,288 views
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442K unique readers last 30 days: Google Analytics. And, hacked by porn site. Yup, it’s official: elephantjournal.com has hit the bigtime.
by Waylon Lewis on Apr 14, 2011
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Why Does Patanjali Matter?! I Think We Can Do Better.
by Julian Walker on Apr 14, 2011
I question the lazy default position of teaching Patanjali's dualistic authoritarian pronouncements as "yoga philosophy" - while giving them the status of "scripture." A critical reading of the text combined with some contrasting neuroscience, somatic psychology, Buddhist and tantric reading seems more in the spirit of viveka and an engaged living tradition. In the context of the modern East/West yoga experiment I think we can have a much more interesting and relevant discussion.1,108 views
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Meeting God. ~ Emily Allison
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 14, 2011
One foot is kissing the earth with gratitude and vulnerable indebtedness.334 views
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Death Is A Preventable Disease.
by Benjamin Riggs on Apr 14, 2011
Why do we find death so repulsive that we fail to its beauty?473 views
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Yoga Journal Talent Search—by the Numbers.
by Vanessa Fiola (Recovering Yogi) on Apr 14, 2011
- Number of Yoga Journal Talent Search applicants: 2470 - Percentage of respondents in a May 2006 Yoga Journal poll who answered that they "disagree with the concept of yoga competitions": 922,001 views
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Never Give Up. ~ Karmapa 17.
by Naomi Levine on Apr 14, 2011
"If you give up on one sentient being then you lose bodhicitta." HH Karmapa776 views
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4 Reasons & 10 Ways to Rid Chemicals from your Home & Clean Meanlessly Green.
by Madison Moross on Apr 14, 2011
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Playboy names elephant’s hometown #1 Party School. Photos:
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 13, 2011
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Dukkha ::: The Dumbest Thing.
by Michael Levin on Apr 13, 2011
What's the dumbest thing you've ever done in your life? Did it involve a friend, your spouse, your pet? Fine. Did it involve the police? Nice. Did it get written up by the media? Outstanding. Have you never told anyone? Now's your big chance...239 views
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I Slept with My Guru. (III)
by Kimberly Johnson on Apr 13, 2011
My body, neglected and demoted in my new philosophy was raising its proverbial hand or in this case growing a nose scab.2,456 views
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Confessions of an Outlaw Yogini: Bakasana and Bourbon. ~ Sarah Kohl
by Bob Weisenberg on Apr 13, 2011
"I told her of my free-range children, my untamed yard, about doing Sirsasna in a canoe and Natarajasana in the nude on the cliffs over a local river, and then I told her that two of my favorite things are Bakasana and Bourbon because they both make me feel alive, empowered, invincible, and free..."818 views
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Why I Haven’t Quit Social Media, Yet.
by Sara Lingafelter on Apr 13, 2011
A few weeks ago I “quit” social media…581 views
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Laid-Off & Ghostly: A Modern Yogi’s Abhinivesha.
by Laura Marjorie Miller on Apr 13, 2011
The deep magic is this: if they saw me too clearly, in a category, I would never be released. I would never be able to do my next thing.723 views
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Coachella 101: How to Survive Your First Music Festival ~ Lindsay McClure
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 13, 2011
You are granted the gift of leaving reality for a weekend, enjoying the company of both new and old friends, all while your pupil’s dilate to the pure rhythmic pulse of the music and festival itself.3,270 views
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Meditating with the Bugs (and Aura Cleanse Video). ~ Corti Cooper
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 13, 2011
Sitting on the sand, my skin began to crawl. I could not sit still, I couldn't close my eyes...239 views
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What does a yoga body look like? {Adult}
by Chelsea Roff (Yoga Modern) on Apr 13, 2011
The church says the body is a sin, science says the body is a machine, advertising says the body is a business, my yoga practice says the body is...11,318 views
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How should I cover the Wanderlust Festival?
by Ari Setsudo Pliskin on Apr 13, 2011
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30 days to freedom: Poppyland Boardgame. Let’s Play… I AM Love.
by Joana Smith on Apr 13, 2011
Follow the buttons to escape the volcano inside yourself!174 views
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The Love Letter: Not Your Typical Adventure Film.
by Sara Lingafelter on Apr 13, 2011
Fitz and Becca Cahall backpacked and climbed their way through wild, scenic places and have shared a part of the story in a short film called The Love Letter, and in a more extended version...690 views
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The elephant has to die—this isn’t the Lion King. ~ Joe Yeoman
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 13, 2011
The head and the tusks have been hacked off by researchers or poachers...763 views
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An Old Boulder Staple Opens Anew; Alfalfa’s Returns.
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 13, 2011
A much-loved source of delicious, organic food, the unique grocery store has been sorely missed since its disappearance in 1996...530 views
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Natural disaster. Conflict. Poverty. How do we respond?
by Ari Setsudo Pliskin on Apr 13, 2011
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Yoga for Everyday People: Yoga Tips + Pema Chodron On Staying Zen Off the Mat
by Lindsey Lewis on Apr 13, 2011
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Clean Your Face(book)–Take Action Today! [cartoon]
by Joe Mohr on Apr 13, 2011
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An Open Letter to Sage Patanjali
by Leeann Carey on Apr 13, 2011
A letter to Sage Patanjali who wrote the Patanajli yoga sutras. Some of his pearls of wisdom appear to be incomprehensible to the 21st century mind.251 views
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Laziness actually involves a lot of Exertion.
by Benjamin Riggs on Apr 13, 2011
Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw.923 views
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The Eight Limbs of yoga 2.0: Satya—Inconvenient truths about truth.
by yoga 2.0 lab on Apr 13, 2011
Truth used to depend upon a stable point-of-view. A stable point-of-view used to hinge upon a coherent sense of “I”, i.e., authority. Points-of-views came from authors...822 views
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