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Lady Gaga does yoga, uses Manduka mat. {Photos, Video}
by Waylon Lewis on Jul 3, 2011
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{Video} Guinness Book of World Records: 23 Yoga Positions…on a moving Motorcycle.
by Waylon Lewis on Jul 3, 2011
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Wikileak’s priceless parody of Mastercard Commercial.
by Waylon Lewis on Jul 3, 2011
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“Nakedness…is a cheeky way to get attention for a serious subject.”
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 3, 2011
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Top 10 Little Mantras. With videos + lyrics.
by Tanya Lee Markul on Jul 3, 2011
As one journeys from mantra toward freedom, the mind begins to expand and widen. It starts to understand the essence of the vibration of things.2,942 views
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Top 10 Elephant Yoga Blogs of the Week.
by Tanya Lee Markul on Jul 3, 2011
Mama Sutras, Teacher Training Fail, Easing Up on Our Men, The Artistic Soul, The Psychotic Mind, Yoga and Jesus, Why Blogging Matters, Spoiled Middle-Class Girl, Depression, and Transformation. (Is that what you were expecting?)1,464 views
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elephant @ Electric Forest: Dave’s Sunday Update — July 3, 2011
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 3, 2011
Sunday morning update from the golf course...143 views
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Can Extreme Renunciation Buy Enlightenment?~ Zach Rosen.
by Benjamin Riggs on Jul 3, 2011
Life is a Bent Twig.180 views
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The Promise of the Future.
by Andrew Cohen on Jul 2, 2011
When you experience this evolutionary impulse moving within you, you will feel an unbelievable excitement and thrill about life. Why? Because of what it is possible to create.570 views
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A 22-minute standing ovation, with tears. 1964.
by Waylon Lewis on Jul 2, 2011
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A Declaration of Independence
by Meg Worden on Jul 2, 2011
Meg Worden Writes and shares her own Declaration of Independence. Internal freedom + equal rights for all.497 views
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elephant @ Electric Forest: Friday, July 1, 2011.
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 2, 2011
Another day of documenting the Good Life...133 views
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Yoga & Life Series: Sacrifice. ~ Paul Dallaghan
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 2, 2011
Essentially, sacrifice in this sense is an eye on all our actions leading to a refinement in behaviour, minimal waste of time and energy and an increased awareness.280 views
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Yoga might make you a better person — you are not a better person because you do yoga.
by Adeline Bash on Jul 2, 2011
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Dousing the Raging Fire of Ego. ~ Halli Bourne
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 2, 2011
Ancient and modern entertainment are riddled with stories of revenge. Malice is tiresome and not only increases the suffering of others, but increases our own. The energy we devote to keeping old wounds open would be better spent healing them.846 views
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Who Still Even Cares Anyway?
by Sophie Legrand on Jul 2, 2011
It shows up every day; customer services that seem deliberately unhelpful, emails that just get lost in the ether, administrations that are not available when you need them. It looks like something we could call an epidemic of carelessness.541 views
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Is Feeding Kids Fast “Food” Child Abuse?
by Tom Grasso on Jul 2, 2011
Eat three meals a day of sodium aluminum phosphate if you want. You will not only hear silence from me while doing it, you will get my support if someone else tries to stop you. Yet when I look at the children of this nation suffering under the weight of fast food and its effects I wonder when to draw the line. If parents aren’t willing to stop feeding their children this poison, is it society’s responsibility to stop them?1,197 views
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Fueling Sanity: What Every Human Being Needs to Know.
by Jack Weber on Jul 2, 2011
The awesome thing about this event is that people went out into the visible world and showed up for what we want: No to offshore drilling, yes to clean energy future!661 views
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How Tiger Pose Ruined My Life. ~ Robert Allen
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 2, 2011
All the practitioners who told me to slow down,and not to do postures that were too difficult were right.281 views
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An Unenlightened Yogini. ~ Lisa Cohen
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 2, 2011
In this moment, I feel liberated. I hereby declare I am unenlightened. I like it here.587 views
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Finding Your Authentic Self Within Your Yoga Practice.
by Temple Symonds on Jul 2, 2011
Your energy is the same energy that turns the planet. You are that important. I think of those words nearly every day, and I take it to the mat with me. I am that important. So are you.258 views
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You Teach Yourself; Buddhism Leads the Way.
by Benjamin Riggs on Jul 2, 2011
"Zen could not be anything else but original and creative because it refuses to deal with concepts but deals with living facts...700 views
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My Karma Ran Over Your Dogma.
by Clare Polencheck on Jul 2, 2011
Would you prefer to "believe in" bounty, beauty, bliss...or would you like to BE bountiful, beautiful, blissful?210 views
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Yogis and Yoginis, Pump Up the Volume!
by Nadine McNeil on Jul 2, 2011
Who says there ain’t no yoga in tae-bo? It felt as though I was having an out of body experience – Nadine the yogini was observing a shadow of her former self, engaged in this high intensity form of exercise. I reminisced about how I used to be addicted to ‘the pump,’ and how when I moved away from it, yoga entered my life.291 views
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What Is God’s Will? And How Do We Participate In It?
by Benjamin Riggs on Jul 2, 2011
Participating in God's will is participating in your daily life.495 views
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The Mama Sutras.
by Candice Garrett on Jul 1, 2011
Parenting: The Advanced Yoga.2,248 views
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Yoga: Looking Past your own Schnoz. ~ Rachel Meyer
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 1, 2011
If we truly aspire to live our lives in a dedicated fashion, mindfully, consciously directing our energies, our prana, toward that which is life-giving, life-creating, removing-of-suffering, we can find this meditative drishti in everything we do...380 views
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My Unexpected Adventure. ~ Brandon Waloff
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 1, 2011
Beautiful and odd moments passed too: the sunrises and sunsets, the skies and clouds that were witnessed were moments of timeless silence shared by us all. It was like we were all in this dream, dreaming together and watching things happen for the first time.268 views
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It’s Electric! (Forest!) ~ Emily Casey
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 1, 2011
Lightening... shine down on me...98 views
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The Easiest, Quickest, Laziest Fundraising I’ll ever ask You to do.
by New Era News on Jul 1, 2011
Sign up to be a daily voter to ensure progressive organizations win serious money from Pepsi.310 views
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elephant @ Electric Forest: Thursday, June 30, 2011
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 1, 2011
Live video updates from Electric Forest Festival...237 views
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The Freedom Trap.
by Brian Culkin on Jul 1, 2011
Freedom is apparently not fixed. It only exists in a kinetic state, changing, transforming and constantly altering. It is an ability of the self-generated purpose to create...320 views
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The Buddha’s Meditation. ~ Dr. Evan Finkelstein
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 1, 2011
It is a common experience that the mind will naturally stay concentrated on anything that provides it with peace and contentment; this is an inherent capacity of the mind, so no training or practices of concentration are required...29,007 views
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When to Lay it Down and When to Get Laid.
by Jody Greene on Jul 1, 2011
I’m as happy as the next exhausted vinyasa maven to hit my mat in a sweaty heap when the moment is right. But when the time comes, won’t you please just tell the truth and let me lie?686 views
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Kathryn Budig Wants You to be True To Yourself (And Maybe Try Her New DVD). ~Alden Wicker
by Alden Wicker on Jul 1, 2011
Read on to find out how she deals with criticism, why she’s backing away from asanas, that a happy person in sparkly yoga pants is a person she wants to hang out with.1,909 views
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Movies to Change the World (or at least Your World View). ~ Jennifer Sertl
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 1, 2011
I look forward to a day when there will be an Academy Award category like, “Best Picture for Fostering Humanity.” These nine films would be my nominations —what would you pick?735 views
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The Buddha Was Flippin’ Cosmic Flapjacks.
by Benjamin Riggs on Jul 1, 2011
"Something living, something real, is taking place in everything..." And you can't escape that fact.400 views
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Home Away From Home.
by Amy Nobles Dolan on Jul 1, 2011
Yoga is routine when nothing else in your world is. A few minutes on your yoga mat leaves you ready to return to your life with an open mind and open arms – no matter how challenging, thrilling, worrying or confusing it is.142 views
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Debt Ceiling. Democrats? Let’s cut spending, military, tax breaks for corporate jets & hedge-fund managers, cut aid to poor & unlucky. Republicans?
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 1, 2011
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Yoga teacher training FAIL.
by Michelle Fajkus on Jul 1, 2011
Ten years ago, I was a devoted yogini, a confused college student and a privileged American consumer. Yoga had been my salvation since middle school.1,851 views
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