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Pick Strawberries.
by Jackie Summers on Oct 23, 2011
Life is short, and often painful. You can’t predict the future and you can’t change the past. But you can’t allow past pain or future uncertainty to prevent you from enjoying the present. Your life is now. When strawberries present themselves, pick them.707 views
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7 billion human beings, One Planet: Calvin & Hobbes weigh in.
by Waylon Lewis on Oct 23, 2011
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You, Practicing Not Checking Your Smartphone. ~ James MacAdam
by elephantjournal.com on Oct 23, 2011
Straining, you pry your attention away from the juicy tidbit that is waiting just beneath the warm, bright icons right there on the table, inside that gorgeous piece of design, that sleek, sexy, modern mechanism of the Global Unity, your connection to the pulsing, breathing, churning life that you are a vital, essential part of. With great effort, you draw your eyes back up to those of your friend across the café table, leaving your soul painfully behind.1,454 views
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Five Ways to Beat Cancer while Creating Inner Vitality.
by Jessica Stone Baker on Oct 23, 2011
The malignancy in my left breast was actually discovered in 2007, but because of poor detection measures (a faulty mammogram), my cancer progressed until I detected it with my own hands in December 2010. I hope to offer my learning and knowledge through Ayurveda, massage therapy and personal experience, to make your journey and quality of life better.2,214 views
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Top 10 Yoga Blogs of the Week.
by Tanya Lee Markul on Oct 23, 2011
How Yogis Get High, Not Safe for Yoga, Almighty Muscle, Hardest Yoga Practice, What's Your Type?, Sex & Liberation, Epilepsy, Lululemon, Wondrous Universe, and Chinese Medicine. (Exactly what you were expecting, right?)3,371 views
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Boulder, Colorado: Waylon Lewis of elephant journal’s endorsements 2011.
by elephantjournal.com on Oct 23, 2011
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Why Reflexology Kicks A$%!
by Jessica Sarkis on Oct 23, 2011
When you think about the practice, this makes sense because your feet have thousands of nerves – and each part of the foot (and hands too) are linked with an organ or region of the body.386 views
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Jung von Matt/Limmat: Pro Infirmis Get closer.
by Waylon Lewis on Oct 23, 2011
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Juice Fasting – Why? and How?
by Lorin Arnold on Oct 23, 2011
Juice fast proponents suggest a number of physical benefits of undertaking a juice fast. Juice fasts can range from 1 day to 60 days. They can include only freshly prepared and never refrigerated juices, or they can have the addition of some seasonings (and/or refrigeration or warming options).791 views
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Guaranteed Transformation – If You Want It.
by Tanya Lee Markul on Oct 23, 2011
A steady practice will help us bring steadiness into the rest of our lives. Yoga is medicine, and it's important to take it as prescribed.3,738 views
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Day 24: Give Up Hope.
by Marylee Fairbanks on Oct 23, 2011
Faith aligns us with a higher consciousness. It shows us that we have the power to create change.768 views
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Day 23: My Grandmother’s Pots
by Marylee Fairbanks on Oct 23, 2011
I promise myself with each new gadget that I will succeed in keeping order, but really, who am I kidding. It’s a mess within a week.444 views
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Oh Yes You Did!
by Kelli Harrington on Oct 22, 2011
Need a kick in the yoga pants? Tired of the same ol’ asanas? Here are five advanced yoga postures that are within reach, inspiring, and full of blissful benefits!885 views
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“Man reunites with Gorilla he raised as his son.”
by Waylon Lewis on Oct 22, 2011
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Good son without a real Father? This video’s for us.
by Waylon Lewis on Oct 22, 2011
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“The only way to do great work…is to love what you do.”
by Waylon Lewis on Oct 22, 2011
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Listen to this Song obsessively: Music Recommendation of the Day.
by Waylon Lewis on Oct 22, 2011
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92-year-old Pete Seeger sings at Occupy Wall Street.
by Waylon Lewis on Oct 22, 2011
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Pull Your Ego Out Of Your Asana.
by Bee Bosnak on Oct 22, 2011
To pull the ego out, means to have no expectations, no judgment, no attachments, but always a high level of humor.1,911 views
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Why Do We Hate the Original Dog? ~ Karen Wallo
by elephantjournal.com on Oct 22, 2011
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Say What You Need to Say
by Linda Buzogany on Oct 22, 2011
I write letters. To celebrities. Musicians. Yoga teachers. I’ve had one-sided conversations with Dave Matthews and Stephen Cope. It is foolish, yes. But I can't be held responsible for words I write after a bad blood sugar night, all sleep deprived and open.346 views
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The Spirituality of Cheeseburgers
by David Romanelli on Oct 22, 2011
Learning about the challenge of carpe diem through superhero moms, beer, and blueberry pie165 views
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The Power of Desire [Rod Stryker’s Four Desires (4D) Virtual Book Club]
by Chanti Tacoronte-Perez on Oct 22, 2011
Desire defined in the reading precedes your every action, is the seed of every thought, and there is no end to it. We are here because of desire.778 views
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Why Meditation & Action are Hand-in-Hand Practices. ~ Linnea Jensen-Stewart
by elephantjournal.com on Oct 22, 2011
What you fear most, is usually the exact direction you need to head. Meditation is like the blueprint for your potential. It is absolutely essential. It shows you where you are holding on. It tells you what you’re running away from, what you are most afraid of and most importantly that you have the capability to be so much more than the definition of your problems.445 views
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Baring it All—On My Feet. ~ April Lechwar
by elephantjournal.com on Oct 22, 2011
My guilty pleasure for as long as I've had a driver’s license has been driving barefoot. After a little research, I decided on my first barefoot adventure, Half Price Books. I was so worried about being confronted about my bare feet that I didn't enjoy the experience fully at the time.691 views
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Bhakti Yoga and Kirtan – It’s How Yogis Get High
by Kara-Leah Grant on Oct 22, 2011
Bhakti Yoga has gotta be one of the lesser known and yet perhaps most powerful forms of yoga. This is the yoga of devotion, and is often practiced via kirtan - or chanting. In particular, Bhakti yoga works with the heart - anahata chakra. It's about love, acceptance and surrender. And lordy knows we could do with bucketloads more love, acceptance and surrender on this glorious planet of ours. Even on our beloved Elephant Journal, a lot more being Yoga with a solid dose of love and acceptance would do wonders for our sense of community and oneness.668 views
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Video: a Photographer & a Yogini meet by chance in New York City. {Robert Sturman, Meghan Currie}
by Waylon Lewis on Oct 22, 2011
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A New Era for Activism.
by Amy Champ on Oct 22, 2011
I want to consider some useful habits for organizing in the non-profit world in this new era, and offer a few guidelines for using social media that make it more meaningful, more connected and most of all--more valuable. I call these the Three A's: Acceptance, Agreement and Action.582 views
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A too-long national chapter, over. All “our troops will be home for the holidays” from Iraq.
by Waylon Lewis on Oct 21, 2011
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Eco Boy vs. Yoga Girl: Nearly Vegan Girl & Eco Boy do Sunday Brunch at their favorite Pretentious yet Incompetent Foodie Restaurant in Bubble Town.
by Waylon Lewis on Oct 21, 2011
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Jon Stewart to GOP re Qaddafi: “Are you that small?”
by Waylon Lewis on Oct 21, 2011
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Yoga Psychology 101: Michael Stone and Yoga-Sutra Translator Chip Hartranft in conversation
by Michael Stone (Centre of Gravity) on Oct 21, 2011
Enlightenment is engagement. The yogi doesn’t run away from the world to realize this. The yogi becomes completely integrated in the world and the world’s right there, in every moment. The whole point of dharma-megha-samādhi is that the yogi is becoming free in things as they are. It’s not that the yogi is abandoning the world and it’s certainly not the case that the yogi, upon attaining cessation, is dying and becoming resorbed into the world as some have claimed.875 views
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My top three considerations when practicing yoga on & off the mat.
by Maureen Miller on Oct 21, 2011
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The Beloved in the Beggar’s Eyes: Recounting a Barefoot Run for Charity
by Josh Schrei on Oct 21, 2011
This season of giving, perhaps we can practice giving more than we are used to giving. And perhaps we can broaden our notions of what Love is and what it means to receive it. Perhaps we can look straight into the eyes of the poor and needy and see Divinity there. Perhaps we can see Nobility. Perhaps we can see Grace.487 views
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Not Safe for Yoga.
by Kate Bartolotta on Oct 21, 2011
Everybody has those songs that just electrify them, that hit right at the base of the spine and work their way up to your smile and give you goosebumps all over.3,187 views
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The ‘Almighty’ Psoas Muscle: Your Body’s Center of Movement. ~ David Keil
by elephantjournal.com on Oct 21, 2011
In order to incorporate both physical and energetic foundations, we must examine our body's center of energy, movement and balance which begins near the psoas muscle...2,811 views
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Top 10 Reasons Why Ashtanga Is the Hardest Yoga Practice. ~ Karmela Lejarde
by elephantjournal.com on Oct 21, 2011
Whose body can stretch and bend at that hour? Ashtangis, that’s who! Except for me, of course.5,874 views
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Shift Happens. ~ Laurel Hodory
by elephantjournal.com on Oct 21, 2011
I picked up the phone today to call a stranger—and hung up in tears. Tears of surrender, tears of sadness, tears of relief. It was as if God — an angel, or some other celestial being of great benevolence and kindness—had reached through the phone line and held me close, comforted and soothed me.321 views
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The Best-Laid Plans.
by Amy Nobles Dolan on Oct 21, 2011
Whatever you want to label it -- fate, happenstance or chance played a powerful role in defining both my friend's and my careers. I'm sure the same will be true for our high-schoolers. We just need to trust in it!54 views
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Republicans plan to kill the EPA dead (no joke).
by Waylon Lewis on Oct 21, 2011
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Stephen Colbert offers best, most eloquent, funniest, fastest defense of Occupy Wall Street (vs. Herman Cain).
by Waylon Lewis on Oct 21, 2011
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Spiritual Self-Confidence.
by Andrew Cohen on Oct 20, 2011
With all of the complexity and seemingly overwhelming problems we face on the planet today -- environmental crisis, economic breakdown, inflated materialism and narcissism, etc -- it's easy to become cynical about change. But there's a deeper source of positivity -- called "Spiritual Self Confidence" -- that can give us an anchor within the inevitable storms of life and awaken in us a powerful sense of meaning and purpose.390 views
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Eco Fashion Picks of the Week: Fresh Organic Yoga Styles, Chunky DIY Knits and What’s In Your Closet?
by EcoSalon on Oct 20, 2011
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Catching Thoughts: Let’s Get Nekkid with a Camra!
by Celia Aurora de Blas on Oct 20, 2011
my many vlogs that have something to do with sex, body parts, unmentionables or mental healing and I realize I'm about to go there again today...402 views
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Day 21 & 22: Each Tiny Toe
by Marylee Fairbanks on Oct 20, 2011
Each little striped footie awakened a million memories.413 views
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