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Catching Thoughts: Stand in Your Truth

by on May 31, 2011

Stand in Your Truth. What is your truth? How do you find it? -Aurora

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A Small Prayer for the Evening

by on May 31, 2011

Please help me to remember that I know the difference between that which is open and that which is closed, and that it’s up to me to choose which of those I want to be.

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Don’t Text & Drive, the Real Live Video.

by on May 31, 2011

Bonus, one worth sharing: Text & Drive? You & your loved ones never will again if you all watch this. Another: Don’t Text & Drive while listening to Queen: For 140 comments plus the story of the video, click here. Kudos to the film-er. please share your stories… http://dont-text-and-drive.blogspot.com I was following a teen that [...]

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There’s Nothing Hotter than a Girl on a Skateboard except…

by on May 31, 2011

…except 15 or so girls on 15 or so skateboards. Near Madrid: The Longboard Girls, set to a Decemberists song. Always had a thing for tomboys: you know, athletic, strong, independent women who smile and dare at the same time. Enjoy:

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Circus Elephant helps Joplin: Video.

by on May 31, 2011

Wow of the day? “While volunteering in Joplin May 28-29, we saw this very unusual sight. An Elephant being used to drag vehicles closer to the street so they can be removed. They were from the Picadilly Circus who where scheduled to perform but had to be cancel due to the venue being used as [...]

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Because City People matter more than Tribal People?!

by on May 31, 2011

Please spread the word fast—last-ditch effort to collect signatures, make noise. Heartbreaking Photo of the Day—Plus how to take action. Click over the The Daily What for a succinct summary of what’s going on here and to take action: > Etcetera: [A] death sentence [for] the peoples of Great Bend of the Xingu river [has [...]

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Why Teaching Yoga is Better Than Bartending.

by on May 31, 2011

Once upon a time—in a former lifetime long before I taught yoga—I tended bar. It was during my twenties.  I didn’t know what I wanted to make of myself, or even what I could make of myself.  Instead of figuring it out, I knocked around.  I stayed up too late, partied too hard, and dated [...]

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Magic Mushrooms to the Rescue! ~ David Telfer McConaghay

by on May 31, 2011

6 Ways Mycelium Can Save the World

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Meditation Flash Mobs take over the World! ~ David Telfer McConaghay

by on May 31, 2011

MedMobs have popped up in 47 different cities around the world…

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Suicidal Education. How Thinking on Death Might Help.

by on May 31, 2011

There are times when people we know might want to die, and we might also catch ourselves wishing for death at times. Might it hold meaning for us?

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Is This a Quarter-Life Crisis?

by on May 31, 2011

How I have started to question my very nature of existence… and why I write.

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Life After The Rapture: Tips for Continued Success as a Yoga Teacher. ~ Lori Flynn

by on May 31, 2011

You have a vision in your head. Let your infinite mind create it and usher it into the physical world…

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Distinguishing Between Perception and Concept. ~ Linda Lewis

by on May 31, 2011

Through distinguishing between perception and concept, Karr and Wood reveal the richness of ordinary life, which we so often miss because of not being open and awake to our ever-changing surroundings.

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Eat Laboratory Grown Meat, If You Want To Save The World. ~ Allison Barocas

by on May 31, 2011

At first thought, many may be repulsed by the idea. Not only does it seem unnatural and potentially dangerous, but also there may be serious consequences for manipulating nature in this way…

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27 tweets on the Lakshmi Bikini.

by on May 31, 2011

The conservative says: If you love this image, you must see and use it the way I do. Become a religious person, like me.

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Ashtanga Yoga and the Secret of Mula Bandha.

by on May 31, 2011

Ashtanga Yoga (as in the 8 limbs) begins with Ahimsa, non-harming. Yama is the first limb of the eight limbs and ahimsa is the first Yama.

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"Spiritual Rules" via Sergeev Pavel

Get out of the book and into YOUR life.

by on May 31, 2011

Intellectual spirituality will not save you.

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Blue Collar Spirituality.

by on May 31, 2011

Trying to make yourself feel better, will make you feel worse. And if you relax at trying to feel better you’ll feel much better.

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7 Surprising Things I Learned from Sirvatsa Ramaswami & Patanjali.

by on May 31, 2011

According to Patanjali and following the translation of Krishnamacharya / Ramaswami, the goal of yoga is “peace” which is another translation of the root word -yoga- in sanskrit. The interpretation of Patanjali is not union. That was my first surprise.

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Book review: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (Christopher McDougall)

by on May 30, 2011

I’m not a runner. It’s just not my thing. Put me on a bicycle, and I’ll go all day, but running? Nope. Not gonna happen. But just a few chapters into Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run,and I wanted to lace up and go out for a nice, long run. Ironically, halfway through the book, I [...]

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Dare We Trust? Life in the Fire of a Sat Guru

by on May 30, 2011

I just embarked on a two month (off and on) journey with my spiritual master, my guru. She is known as Amma by her devotees and internationally as the “Hugging Saint”. She is known to sit for up to 24 hours straight hugging all who come before her. She does this without stopping for food [...]

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Eat Pizza. Support Joplin, MO Tornado Victims. {Boulder}

by on May 30, 2011

“Eighteen years ago, we lost our home and business – totally destroyed by a category F4 tornado in Oklahoma…”

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The Art of a Creationship. ~ Lindsay Love

by on May 30, 2011

Obviously artists are capable of having successful unions, but what happens when particular qualities collide as two creative energies recognize an undeniable attraction?…

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8 Reasons We Love Telluride. ~ Emily Casey & Charles Hurd

by on May 30, 2011

Every generation needs a new revolution. — Thomas Jefferson

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Dancing Around The Ups and Downs. ~ Sarah Stevenson

by on May 30, 2011

I try to look at life as if I am floating down a river…

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Advice on women from Marilyn Monroe.

by on May 30, 2011

This life is what you make it. No matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes, it’s a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you’re going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends – they’ll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The [...]

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Yoga Festivals 101. ~ Sonja Bjelland

by on May 30, 2011

Seems like every weekend this summer yogis will be gathering somewhere for a festival or mini-version of one. Here’s my list of what to take…

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A Toast To John Friend. ~ Cheryl Crawford

by on May 30, 2011

Have you always wanted to glow from the inside out? Want to be a stable presence for the cold butter types to just melt away their hardness?

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[Event Preview] Electric Forest Festival, Rothbury, MI.

by on May 30, 2011

Any people out there enjoy dance parties?

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Yoga & Gym: a non-duality practice.

by on May 30, 2011

I started going to the Gym. I’m about 3 months into a weekly regimé and I’m loving it.

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Samadhi Pants Strip 106 – Disco Yoga

by on May 30, 2011

Happy Memorial Day everyone! To see this strip in slideshow format, please go here.

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Name Me a Single War that was Worth It?

by on May 30, 2011

Who wants to be dead?

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Live Bravely, With Kindness, and Know How To Change a Tire. ~ Jolee McBreen

by on May 30, 2011

“As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people’s ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”

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Material Unsuitable for the Viewing Public.

by on May 30, 2011

When did mediocrity and banality become a good image for your children?

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Shock Your Chakras! {Boulder/Denver Event ~ This Thursday}

by on May 30, 2011

Interview with the Masterminds behind ACTIVATE: Shock Your Chakras! Saturate Your Senses! Pump up Your Palate! THIS THURSDAY, June 2nd at 8pm, The Eldorado Springs Art Center just might begin to glow with the latest performance art experiment, ACTIVATE.  From hot dance moves and hand-dyeing to laser beams and lolipops, a night of unexpected action [...]

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Zen meets South Park [Animations]

by on May 30, 2011

Prickles and Goo: These are a few of several animated short films set to the audio recordings of philosopher and Zennie Alan Watts (1915 — 1973). The animations were made several years ago and were produced by the makers of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

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Surrendering to the vine of the soul.

by on May 30, 2011

I am feeling happy, clean and inspired.Kajuyali Tsamani is a Colombian shaman who is touring through Europe these weeks. Last Friday and Saturday night I participated in the beautiful ayahuasca ceremonies he, his family and his helpers perform. It was a difficult, humbling but predominantly amazing experience. For those who don’t know: ayahuasca refers to [...]

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Before you die, please live a little.

by on May 30, 2011

We can think of plenty reasons why we should suffer. The fact alone that we are getting closer to our death every day is pretty hard to swallow for the most of us. And there is no guarantee that we will die old, worn out and sick, we might as well die a lot younger [...]

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Top 10 Elephant Yoga Blogs of the Week.

by on May 30, 2011

The very best of Elephant Yoga for the past week and the past month. (Join Elephant Yoga on Facebook.)

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Being The Journey Is What It Is All About.

by on May 30, 2011

“A day without sitting is a day without sanity.”

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Sex and Food: What Type are You? ~ Antoinette Armocida

by on May 30, 2011

Intimacy happens at the place of separation and boundary. Where I end and you begin is the place that we touch. Exploring our differences illuminates where we connect. I won’t try to talk anyone out of enjoying the things they love in life, even if I don’t share the same sentiments.

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Mary Oliver has a question for you:

by on May 29, 2011

Too busy too important for wonder? Too crazy for power, for things? {Mary Oliver; a poem} have you ever seen anything in your life more wonderful than the way the sun, every evening, relaxed and easy, floats toward the horizon and into the clouds or the hills, or the rumpled sea, and is gone— and [...]

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“If the Bible proves that God exists…”

by on May 29, 2011

…then comic books prove the existence of Superman.” Or, for that matter, Supergirl: Or, yah, Wonder Woman: Or, rather, Lynda Carter: Bible > God > Superman > Supergirl > Wonder Woman > I believe in Lynda Carter. The titular quote came from a friend of Tod Brilliant’s, posted to Tod’s Facebook Wall—one of the many [...]

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Trying To Breathe When All I Want To Do Is Scream.

by on May 29, 2011

How do we find the time to take care of ourselves when we are stuck between the needs of our children and the needs of our parents?

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The ABC’s of Genuine Happiness: a Poster.

by on May 29, 2011

26 letters in the alphabet? Here’s 26 (times two or three, they pack ‘em in…but I’d subtract the xerox-your-face tip, so all in all it’s probably about 55) tips for you and I to keep a smile on the outside connected to a rainbow on the inside:

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Quote of the Day: Willie Nelson.

by on May 29, 2011

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results. ~ Willie Nelson Normally I don’t go in for this sort of positive thinking mumbo jumbo, but coming from Willie, I’ll take it. Maybe there is something to popping out of our suffering, our habitual patterns, our cocoon and…just as simply as [...]

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Before Buddha became a Buddha, he was a Yogi.

by on May 29, 2011

I am quite familiar with the story about  Buddha’s enlightenment under that fateful banyan tree in Bodh Gaya. But until recently, I was much less familiar with his wandering ways before he became Sakyamuni Buddha. Here’s a brief history about yoga in context of the life and time of Buddhism’s founder. But first a few [...]

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Midnight in Paris explores a deeper sense of time.

by on May 29, 2011

I walked into the movie feeling blue and came out feeling uplifted and new! And isn’t that enough.

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Yoga Teachers, Here’s What Your Students Really Want.

by on May 29, 2011

Ever wonder what your students really want?

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Gandhi: how to be an effective Activist.

by on May 29, 2011

Ahimsa. “In the midst of darkness, light persists.” Fighting doesn’t help anyone. But idiot compassion doesn’t help, either. So let’s turn to one of the masters of mindful activism, Gandhi, for guidance. Gandhi: I succeed most every time in maintaining Non-Violence. It is the most powerful weapon. Love works. Beautiful contemplation: Bonus: his voice. Bonus: [...]

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