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12 Tips for Teaching Yoga. ~ Angie Benton
by elephantjournal.com on Oct 3, 2011
Don’t become a teacher, or teach for your own benefit. Let go of expectations to have a large class attendance, to be well-financially rewarded, to have your name known or to grow your business.768 views
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Divine Mother Festival—why worship deities at all?
by Sam Geppi on Oct 3, 2011
The appearance of Indian deities are to personify the supernatural quality of the idea that “the truth is within”.381 views
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Event: Bioneers Conference in San Francisco, October 14-16th.
by Lindsey Block on Oct 3, 2011
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What it really means to love…farts & all.
by Roger Wolsey on Oct 3, 2011
For the Lovers. Wow! Now THAT's a tribute! What a testimony!1,775 views
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Yoga – To Make the Strange Familiar and the Familiar Strange
by Lorin Arnold on Oct 3, 2011
It’s a wonderful thing to see how the normal and extraordinary are one, and yoga helps me to do just that. The dialectic of the strange and familiar is both astonishing and utterly regular.333 views
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Samadhi Pants – Mandala Yoga
by Joseph Boquiren on Oct 3, 2011
The interconnected interdependent poses in Mandala Yoga help foster trust and cooperation between practitioners.317 views
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Rod Stryker: Is the guru-disciple relationship disempowering? (VIDEO)
by Chelsea Roff (Yoga Modern) on Oct 3, 2011
Reflections on an interview with Rod Stryker about the power dynamics in modern yoga teacher-student relationships.690 views
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Ask James: Evil, Atheism, Occupy Wall Street, Entrepreneurship, and More
by James Altucher on Oct 3, 2011
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Instant Frisson. ~ Dylan Owens
by elephantjournal.com on Oct 3, 2011
What is frisson, you ask? According to the OED: frisson |frēˈsô n | noun a sudden strong feeling of excitement or fear; a thrill : a frisson of excitement. ORIGIN late 18th cent.: French, literally ‘a shiver or thrill.’ Free-sahn. Blarf. Gotta love that French pronunciation.287 views
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Changing Lives with Adapted Yoga for Youth with Special Needs
by Donna Freeman on Oct 3, 2011
An innovative adapted yoga approach is proving highly successful in helping youth with ADHD, Austim, Down Syndrome, hyperactivity and emotional disturbances. Interview with Movement founders Stephanie Gottlob and Yuki Oka.337 views
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Five Things That Will Make You Fail While Climbing A 14er. ~Anna Baldwin
by elephantjournal.com on Oct 3, 2011
Although not everyone strives to summit each of these mountains, it’s still honorable and fun to hike at least one. With this one hike comes several guidelines that must always be adhered to so you do not meet failure.259 views
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Tantric Buddhism in 86 Words. ~ Dr. Reggie Ray
by Benjamin Riggs on Oct 3, 2011
The Journey of the Vajrayana...2,113 views
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Vitamins. Exercise. Friends.
by Michelle Pfennighaus on Oct 3, 2011
The people in our lives are our mirrors, our teachers, our way of existing fully. We may be taking our vitamins and exercising our bodies, but are we cultivating relationships with the same daily effort?273 views
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Day 4: Bring Out Your Dead
by Marylee Fairbanks on Oct 3, 2011
Dead flowers or plants create stagnant energy in your home and weigh you down. Toss them and fill the space with something green.625 views
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Namaste, Héshi, or Gasshō: Why Buddhists Bow ~ Seth Segall, Ph.D.
by elephantjournal.com on Oct 3, 2011
Each individual being is important, but not self-important632 views
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Men. Eating Disorders.
by Hannah Siegle on Oct 3, 2011
Two terms not often put together in the public eye. The stigma of men succumbing to a women's issue still holds strong in our society and while the percentage of women suffering from eating disorders has held steady over the past decade the percentage of men who are struggling has increased, with men accounting for at least 10% of reported cases.553 views
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Smile when you’re happy. Cry when you are sad.
by Writing Our Way Home on Oct 3, 2011
Be honest with yourself about how you feel. Be sad when you are hurt, be contrite when you hurt others. And then start again. Be honest about how you feel about the next thing. Celebrate when you are happy, mourn when you are sad.454 views
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3 impossible (true) stories, 1 way to feel more God-like. ~ Ben Ralston
by Ben Ralston on Oct 3, 2011
Actually, a better word than synchronicity is perhaps ‘miracle’. Because although mathematicians can work out the odds of some of the things I’m about to tell you about happening; and although they might say that there is a billion to one chance; I’d say that it’s simply impossible. So it’s a miracle.1,315 views
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Day 3: Highlighted
by Marylee Fairbanks on Oct 3, 2011
If we release material ties, we free up internal space and fill it with something new and wonderful.576 views
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First Date with the Gita? If Not, Remember Yours? (Gita Talk 7)
by Bob Weisenberg on Oct 2, 2011
There is nothing more fundamental / than I, Arjuna; all worlds, / all beings, are strung upon me / like pearls on a single thread.1,191 views
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The most important thing in Buddhism—more important than Enlightenment.
by Waylon Lewis on Oct 2, 2011
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Jon Stewart: A moving interview with Tony Bennett re: Nat King Cole, Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong…& Amy Winehouse.
by Waylon Lewis on Oct 2, 2011
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True Life: Emotional Hoarding.
by Lauren Hanna Foster on Oct 2, 2011
And just like that, letting go of the past helped me feel better in the now. The past is always a part of us, but we don’t have to hold onto it with a death grip. There should be no anxiety or fear associated with the act of letting go – It’s okay to throw away the wedding favors, the wrapping paper, the birthday cards...1,006 views
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Food Is Love: A Story About Vegetables.
by Susan Simon on Oct 2, 2011
I knew that the love that was blossoming between us was the real deal so I had to cope with his picky eating...2,137 views
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Freely Receive, Freely Give: Of Water, Tapas, and Why I’m Running Barefoot for Charity
by Josh Schrei on Oct 2, 2011
There is a reason water has played such a vital role in so many indigenous spiritual and medical traditions. Water is life -- spiritual life, physical life.... Life. And the most fundamental right of human beings is access to the substance that is our pure source.328 views
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MEXICO: The Royal Tour by Peter Greenberg
by Yesica Pineda on Oct 2, 2011
The Mexico you haven't seen ~709 views
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Nuns learn Karate & Aikido as self-defense: “This is possibly the greatest video I’ve ever seen.”
by Waylon Lewis on Oct 2, 2011
…847 views
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Wall Street Occupied? ~ Videos, news links and photos
by Yesica Pineda on Oct 2, 2011
Wall Street Ocuppy746 views
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Top 10 Yoga Blogs of the Week.
by Tanya Lee Markul on Oct 2, 2011
Being Intentional, Yogasms, Taste of Tantra, Anger, Lure the Goddess, Yoga Sutras are Boring, Rape Culture & Darwin, Autumn Surrender, When Everything Feels Terrible, Dying Animals.1,936 views
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Playboy Yoga & Bud Light. {Videos}
by Jennifer Cusano on Oct 2, 2011
I think the whole Playboy Yoga thing is total ridiculousness, but the theme behind Naked Yoga, that there is nothing uncomfortable about your naked body, is sort of beautiful.2,301 views
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It Only Takes 20 Minutes to Shift the Blame (700+ protesters arrested on Brooklyn Bridge)
by Ari Setsudo Pliskin on Oct 2, 2011
It Only Takes 20 Minutes to Shift the Blame (700+ protesters arrested on Brooklyn Bridge)711 views
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“What your man can’t do.”
by Hannah Siegle on Oct 2, 2011
An incredible street act from Union Square Park!647 views
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Life, death & kittens – how to carry on loving despite everything
by Writing Our Way Home on Oct 2, 2011
How can we carry on loving, despite death?421 views
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Dear Anusara Yoga® Certification Candidate,
by Bernadette Birney on Oct 2, 2011
“Put your back knee down.” I fisted my hands on my hips, and fixed her with a stink-eye to show her I meant business. “PUT YOUR BACK KNEE DOWN, DAMMIT!”1,240 views
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Chögyam Trungpa: You can’t fall in love unless you’re lonely.
by Waylon Lewis on Oct 2, 2011
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Yoga – a luxury practice? Is it worth all that money? ~ Leila Hassen
by elephantjournal.com on Oct 2, 2011
I thought that by religiously attending my yoga practice 3 times a week at the studio on the street corner I was making my way to truth and inner peace. But it appears this isn’t the case. I also thought that all this information was available for anyone who wish to find that inner peace and for free.831 views
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Watch: Abbreviated Oral History of Lyrics that aren’t Lyrics.
by Waylon Lewis on Oct 1, 2011
Ski bi di bi di do bap do / Do bam do / Bada bwi ba ba bada bo / Baba ba da bo / Bwi ba ba ba do.648 views
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There’s Nothing to Fear Except Yourself.
by Marlene Kelly on Oct 1, 2011
How many times a day do you worry about something you have no control over? My guess is more than you are probably aware of on a conscious level.1,302 views
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Smoke Signals: Are Cigarettes Really as Bad as They Say? ~ Sara Lindsey
by elephantjournal.com on Oct 1, 2011
You'd think it'd be easy to pick up a pack of cigarettes, smoke one, and take a look at the brown filter. It was white before smoking, so what happened? What could have possibly made the end of this cigarette dirty, and what could be going into my body?1,595 views
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by elephantjournal.com on Oct 1, 2011
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The Importance of Being Intentional.
by Michelle Fajkus on Oct 1, 2011
Authentic, mindful, daily intention-setting infuse our creative lives and yoga practice with meaning and purpose, moment to moment.1,141 views
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Xcel Energy doesn’t find this commercial funny.
by Waylon Lewis on Oct 1, 2011
…1,380 views
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