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This Is Not Your Mother’s Yoga.
by Amy Nobles Dolan on May 10, 2011
During a kids’ yoga class, I was bombarded with questions. “Are we going to play Freeze Dance?”, “Did you bring stickers?” “What about giraffe pose? Aren’t we going to do giraffe??” There were so many questions flying around that I don’t know how they were doing the postures.547 views
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Honoring the mother within, in spite of her Self.
by Nadine McNeil on May 10, 2011
Mother and all she was supposed to represent became my ultimate litmus test in empathy, forgiveness and ultimately love.187 views
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Raising Spiritual Consciousness. Right Here. Right Now.
by Tom Rapsas on May 10, 2011
“God is a current that runs through and between all things. The Divine Source resides in everything and everything resides in the Divine Source”. ~Annie Burnside149 views
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Fixin’ For a Fight? How Yoga & Meditation Apply to Real Life.
by Yogi Michael Boyle on May 10, 2011
If yoga and meditation practice are not practically enhancing our lives at the level of nitty-gritty details – like arguments with our wives and husbands – then what’s the point?516 views
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Veganism (a 7 Year Old’s Perspective)
by Gary Smith on May 10, 2011
Last week the video “Veganism (a 7 Year Old’s Perspective)” was shared by many on Facebook. I tend to not be sucked in by cute children videos, yet I couldn’t resist that title. I was immediately impressed by Marielle’s grasp of veganism. Her video covered much more than just diet. Within two days, the video had been watched by over 3,500 people. A couple of days ago, she posted a brand new video (both are below). Please follow Marielle at her Facebook fan page. I just had to interview her!1,487 views
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Are you a Superficial Yogi?
by Sadie Nardini on May 10, 2011
Re-orienting back to your innermost core both on and off the mat is the hallmark of my teaching, and the most freeing place you’ll ever know.4,466 views
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How to Get Everyone in Your Yoga Class to Hate You in 10 Easy Steps. ~ Kristina Chandler
by elephantjournal.com on May 10, 2011
You set up in the front row in your tiny yoga outfit, grinning broadly, demonstrating for the teacher when asked, holding every pose five seconds too long to be sure all eyes are on you. You are a yoga narcissist. Narcissus died staring at his reflection and no one cared.3,047 views
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Yoga Becoming Popular Among Cancer Patients. ~ Krista Peterson
by elephantjournal.com on May 10, 2011
The ability to have an effect on both the mental and physical state of a patient is one of the reasons that yoga has gained such popularity as a complementary treatment option166 views
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Waiting On Superman?
by Benjamin Riggs on May 10, 2011
Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of what is happening in the living process—and then letting go.395 views
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Howwabout a Nice Big Cup of Shut the F**k Up? On Censorship & Mindfulness.
by Michael Levin on May 10, 2011
CNN just aired a story about injunctions. An injunction is a legal term that means you're prohibited from doing something. A media injunction prohibits the media from mentioning some forbidden topic. A super injunction prohibits even talking about the injunction...655 views
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Is Spirituality + Fashion “Mindful” or “Materialism”?
by Waylon Lewis on May 9, 2011
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Top 10 Elephant Yoga Blogs of the Week.
by Bob Weisenberg on May 9, 2011
The very best of Elephant Yoga for the past week and the past month. (Join Elephant Yoga on Facebook.)126 views
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Examining Our Identity in a Post-Bin Laden World. ~ Marthe Weyandt
by elephantjournal.com on May 9, 2011
In the last week, there has been much debate, especially in the alternative media, concerning how one must ‘properly’ react to Osama bin Laden’s death. Isn’t it rational to feel joyful?167 views
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Keep the Contest Where It Belongs: On The Stage And Off the Mat.
by Sarah Simmons on May 9, 2011
Am I whining? I am. My husband says I’m being bitter, and I agree, but I don’t think it makes any less of an argument that there is some incongruence with YJ’s effort to promote a contest while providing all the articles on meditation, environmental issues, yoga philosophy, etc.789 views
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Cartography of the Heart / Wound, Womb ~ Brooke Gessay
by elephantjournal.com on May 9, 2011
This vital opening I’m experiencing in which I literally feel like one of the buds on the tree outside in a slow-motion-burst. I absolutely love what I am feeling. And so I do my best to savor it, to be it, completely. And then I do my best to let it fade and let the next thing come, whatever that may be.305 views
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Bhakti Fest Reminds Me of Smoking My First Joint. ~ James P. McMahon
by elephantjournal.com on May 9, 2011
It was the summer of 1968 and I was sitting on the steps of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, smoking a joint for the very first time.321 views
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A Moment in the Aftermath of a Car Accident ~ Ashley Inguanta
by elephantjournal.com on May 9, 2011
She was stuck inside her car, which had flipped onto its side. I wanted to give her flowers that morning, flowers that grew on the grassy highway median. Small, white flowers. Flowers that were thin like tiny, delicate dresses.192 views
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My Journey Into Grace
by Jeannie Page on May 9, 2011
After almost a year of endless tears, sleepless nights and an inability to eat much of substance, almost as an act of desperation, I dragged myself into the neighborhood yoga studio.519 views
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Strip 103 – More Yoga poses by Yucky Yum Yum
by Joseph Boquiren on May 9, 2011
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Seize the Day, but Don’t Seize Up
by yoga 2.0 lab on May 9, 2011
We can seize around an identity. Or we can be seized by a social role, or by a god, or by the stars, or by an errant wind. Patanjali affirms that we can leave behind both seizing and the act of being seized, to choose connection, to choose presence.693 views
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“Women don’t Lie.” ~ Anonymous
by elephantjournal.com on May 9, 2011
If anyone can accuse a good man of something like this and cause him so much grief, then what has our system become?21,032 views
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{Boulder Event} The Wellness Initiative’s Yogathon: Support Yoga for Low-Income Kids. ~ Dee Andrews
by elephantjournal.com on May 9, 2011
Get your body moving and help fund yoga classes in low- income schools. Boulder Event. Sign up now!343 views
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Video: Endangered Baby Tigers play in Forest about to become Paper.
by Waylon Lewis on May 9, 2011
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Lyme Disease Turned Me Into a B*tch. ~ Sara Bruskin
by elephantjournal.com on May 9, 2011
Devoid of any semblance of sanity or tact, I blew up at him...167 views
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The Origin of Genocide and the Destruction of Our Planet.
by Benjamin Riggs on May 9, 2011
It is unfortunate that few people appreciate the utter complexity of this debacle. Perhaps we could develop a great deal of admiration for sanity, if we paid more attention to the disastrous effects of insanity.377 views
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To Om or Not To Om: Children’s Yoga in Public Schools – An Interview with Jennifer Cohen Harper, founder of Little Flower Yoga
by Diane Ferraro on May 9, 2011
While children’s yoga has been spreading and gaining acceptance throughout the country, there are still those who question its place in public schools.766 views
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Why Yoga Means Union: The Spiritual, Historical and Psychological Reasons (And Why Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras Had nothing To Do With It)
by Ramesh Bjonnes on May 9, 2011
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Reconsidering the killing of Osama Bin Laden. ~ David Telfer McConaghay
by elephantjournal.com on May 9, 2011
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CBS Reports: Happiest Town in the US ft. Dave Query, Sean Maher. {CBS video}
by Waylon Lewis on May 8, 2011
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Stephen Colbert: “I steal Clif Bars from Whole Foods.”
by Waylon Lewis on May 8, 2011
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Trump (on his, what, 4th marriage?) comes out against gay marriage. He continues to be pro-pre-nups:
by elephantjournal.com on May 8, 2011
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President Obama’s first interview re: killing of Osama bin Laden: 60 Minutes.
by Waylon Lewis on May 8, 2011
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5 Worst Mother’s Day Gifts ~ Lindsay McClure
by elephantjournal.com on May 8, 2011
Like many others, I feel moms should be appreciated everyday but the brunch, gifts and special day give moms a calendar day to be appreciated.141 views
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Six Inappropriate Sexy Cat Yoga Poses.
by elephantjournal.com on May 8, 2011
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Lovin’ the Wrong Foods: WWGD? (What Would Gurumayi Do?) by Dr. Sara Gottfried, MD
by Sara Gottfried, MD on May 8, 2011
Time to stop the madness with weight and food. Women especially aspire to thinness and peace around food. Yet we're going about it all wrong.994 views
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Treehugger Green Guide to Sexy Swimwear Fashion for Ladies & Gents: Slideshow.
by Waylon Lewis on May 8, 2011
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What Childbirth Taught Me that Yoga Never Could.
by Kimberly Johnson on May 8, 2011
Where yoga gives you bite-size chunks of difficulty and intensity to digest at your own pace, birth shoves it down your throat.3,549 views
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Why Am I Here and What Am I Doing: Supermarket Mantra
by Hilary Lindsay on May 8, 2011
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Explaining Addiction to My Four Year Old.
by Meg Worden on May 8, 2011
“Happy Mother’s Day, Ladies”, Mrs. G’s voice rang out strong and southern in the cavernous prison unit, where two hundred women were waking up far away from their babies.639 views
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SNL does Fox News’ GOP Candidates for President Debate (Tina Fey = Sarah Palin). {Video}
by elephantjournal.com on May 8, 2011
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A simple reminder never to take the physical presence of our mothers for granted.
by elephantjournal.com on May 8, 2011
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Jovial’s Rice and Einkorn Wheat Pasta
by Jeffrey Woodruff on May 8, 2011
Nutritious and delicious einkorn pasta and gluten free brown rice pasta from Jovial Foods.527 views
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