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If you go out on a first date with a Feminist…?
by Waylon Lewis on Oct 16, 2011
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Top 10 Yoga Blogs of the Week.
by Tanya Lee Markul on Oct 16, 2011
Anatomy, Politics, Harmonic Oscillations, Recovering Yogi, Steve Jobs, Occupy Wall Street, Key to Happiness, Good Enough, Food, George Harrison.2,384 views
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How My Horse Schooled Me In Yoga: Part One. ~ Sarah Jenkins
by elephantjournal.com on Oct 16, 2011
Apparently, picking up a horse’s hoof was part of the eight-limbed path of yoga and letting go of my attachment to things; letting go of my attachment to how she should act, how I should act, what should happen and how I would learn.127 views
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The Anatomy of Chaturanga. ~ David Keil
by elephantjournal.com on Oct 16, 2011
Let’s talk chaturanga for a bit, the posture that is most often blamed for creating shoulder pain.4,297 views
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Shut the Refrigerator Door Already. ~ Ellen Smoak
by elephantjournal.com on Oct 16, 2011
Do you ever hold the refrigerator door open for way too long, waiting for something to just appear out of nowhere? And what about the times you keep going back, as if exactly what you want to eat will magically be there five minutes later?157 views
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Meditation: the Enigma and the Surrender. ~ Tania Kazi
by elephantjournal.com on Oct 16, 2011
We are not just the sum of all the good stuff we have experienced in life, we are very much made up of the disappointments, failures, heart-breaks and let-downs that have been part of our growth too. To embrace one and neglect another is to live half the human experience.191 views
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Day 17: Missing Teeth.
by Marylee Fairbanks on Oct 16, 2011
Today, I am trying to let go of my son’s old books. I pick up the brightly colored, tattered, storybooks and feel his little head on my shoulder. I hear his squeaky voice asking me questions about each drawing and word, as I flip through the pages.691 views
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Sari Friedman OccuPIES Oakland, Oct. 15 2011
by D. Patrick Miller on Oct 15, 2011
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Amory Lovins: “Do solutions, not problems.” {Bioneers}
by Kate Hormel on Oct 15, 2011
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Anim Steel on The Real Food Challenge: America’s First Food Day Oct. 24th. {Bioneers}
by Kate Hormel on Oct 15, 2011
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Cooking Vegan Can Be Easy and Inexpensive – The Happy Herbivore
by Lorin Arnold on Oct 15, 2011
Guest post by Lindsay Nixon, The Happy Herbivore - Most people think that eating healthy, and eating vegan, is costs a lot of money, but eating vegan foods can actually be a bargain. That's why I wrote my first cookbook, The Happy Herbivore Cookbook, so I could prove that eating healthy (and vegan) is not only delicious, but affordable too.1,021 views
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Paul Stamets: Mushrooms as medicine, “thinking membranes”, & the answer to basically everything. {Bioneers}
by Kate Hormel on Oct 15, 2011
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“War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.”
by Waylon Lewis on Oct 15, 2011
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Five Guys to Avoid On Your Way To Samadhi: Love, Your Local Chamber of Commerce ~ Marthe Weyandt
by elephantjournal.com on Oct 15, 2011
You can spot him by his clever attire: denim suit, colorful necktie, thick-rimmed glasses and a tub of Kentucky Fried chicken, most likely original recipe. He casts quite an intriguing presence standing in front of your local American Apparel store. You might almost mistake him for a model standing next to cardboard cutout of a woman wearing a tank top, terry cloth shorts and socks.365 views
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“Enlightened” HBO? ~ Julia Sinn
by elephantjournal.com on Oct 15, 2011
Is this going to be something new and progressive and important about teaching people that change is possible, or is it just going to fall into the rut of consumerism and entertainment? It seemed hopeful. It seemed heart-felt and sincere.160 views
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“Women Who Fuel the Revolution”: Gloria Steinem and Worldpulse.{Bioneers}
by Kate Hormel on Oct 15, 2011
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Occupy Your Own Brain: Stop Driving Drunk. ~ Lori Flynn
by elephantjournal.com on Oct 15, 2011
As we head into the holiday season, I humbly request that you take a look at your habits. If you are one of the people out there who thinks they are a really great drunk driver, just please stop. For the sake of everyone.227 views
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Eat Local This Winter. ~ Dakota-Rae Westveer
by elephantjournal.com on Oct 15, 2011
Local food is on everybody’s lips and filling everyone’s stomachs this season. Our natural grocers feature products with a local “stamp”, farm-to-table restaurants are gaining popularity, and as folks in Boulder know, the farmers’ market is the place to be.491 views
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Discussion: The Introduction [Rod Stryker’s Four Desires (4D) Virtual Book Club]
by Chanti Tacoronte-Perez on Oct 15, 2011
Happiness. The idea that everyone is seeking happiness inspires me. It made my day to read the first sentence “Happiness.” Having taken the Yoga of Fulfillment training and knowing what this book would ask of me, reading that first line made me pause, take a breath, and be grateful for my teacher.835 views
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10 Things Christians (and other Spiritual folk) should Know & Do about the Occupy Protests.
by Roger Wolsey on Oct 15, 2011
Can you be spiritual and be an occupier? What does conscious activism look like? What will you do? After two weeks with a notable lack of media coverage about it, American Christians are learning about an amazing phenomenon that is taking place on Wall Street in New York that has birthed a movement that’s spreading across the land1,079 views
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Day 16: Beads and Baubles
by Marylee Fairbanks on Oct 15, 2011
When we leave things in disrepair it is evidence of a lack of respect for the self. Repair your homes and possessions and invest in your well-being. If you have something broken that you are hanging onto ask yourself why you haven’t taken the time to mend it. Then do so, or give it away to someone who will value it enough to repair it.146 views
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Vegan Nazis…Watch Out for Them
by David Romanelli on Oct 15, 2011
When Vegans take it too far...621 views
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Finding Unconditional Confidence ~ Jen Murphy
by Jen Murphy on Oct 15, 2011
This is because when we have unconditional confidence we are not confident “in” anything and our confidence is not “about” anything.292 views
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Axl Rose + Tom Petty = Awesome Live Music Moment
by David Romanelli on Oct 15, 2011
A great moment in rock history when Tom Petty debuted the song Free Fallin...with Guns & Roses Axel Rose!!67 views
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Boulder event: Gregory Alan Isakov: October 21 at the Fox Theater.
by Ali Schultz on Oct 15, 2011
This week, I am excited to catch Gregory Alan Isakov at the Fox Theater on Friday night (October 21). Of all the artists I've seen, Gregory - whether solo and acoustic or with his band of talented musicians - always creates a performance with emotional depths and soaring poetics that leave me rooted in my humanity while simultaneously feeling as though its been transcended (perhaps, it makes me feel the wholeness of this human experience). Of the many amazing things curating in Boulder's ever evolving scene of new, hip and wonderful artists growing their body of works, Gregory Alan Isakov remains a permanent favorite on my playlists and live shows that I must see. I was one of the lucky ones who saw him perform a benefit barn concert for Lisa Sanchez, a dear friend of Elephant Journal, at Frog Belly Farm earlier this year. It was a special one, and I began to reminisce about the experience to share with ele readers. If you haven't seen Gregory yet, go. You'll thank me later. Here are the sweet memories of the February 13, 2011 benefit show.69 views
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“All of you breeders/sellers should be made to work in the ‘back’ of an animal shelter for just one day.” [Warning: real]
by Waylon Lewis on Oct 15, 2011
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My hometown’s trying to take control of its energy back from Xcel Energy.
by Waylon Lewis on Oct 14, 2011
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Are You Patriotic? ~ Alik Brundrett
by elephantjournal.com on Oct 14, 2011
...Never before in our history have we been able to mass-filter such large and dynamic occurrences in some of the largest cities in the world and convince most of America that something entirely different is going on. I'm not praising this because it's constructive or good, but for the shear power and force we as humans have over our minds and the minds of others.41 views
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Boulder Event: SteamPunk Exotica at BMoCA, October 31.
by elephantjournal.com on Oct 14, 2011
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Occupying LA–Thoughts From the Front Lines. ~ Magda Rod
by elephantjournal.com on Oct 14, 2011
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Why I Won’t Occupy Any Street.
by JulieJCPeters on Oct 14, 2011
"You know that it's wrong to kill people. But do you really know why it's wrong? Have you really taken it deeply into your heart and thought about it to the point that you know the only true answer to that question? If not, you are not an ethical person. You are just a sheep following the rules like everyone else."2,711 views
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Understanding The Mayan Calendar
by Yesica Pineda on Oct 14, 2011
After all, everything in the Universe is vibration and time does not exist, but only to measure space. Time and space are the dimension we live in. Your awareness of WHERE you are and WHEN you are there represent the present moment YOU are in.1,187 views
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Yoga Demystified: Poems and Articles.
by Bob Weisenberg on Oct 14, 2011
A companion collection of supporting poems and articles for "Yoga Demystified."549 views
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Tread Lightly, Teachers: Put Down Your Big Stick.
by Hilary Lindsay on Oct 14, 2011
I was raised as a response to Hitler; or Pharaoh, maybe. Never give up and never forget and do not make yourself someone else’s bitch. If you can get a B there is no reason you can’t get an A. There is no excuse for doing less than your best.693 views
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Intimations of Revival. ~ Gabe Marihugh
by elephantjournal.com on Oct 14, 2011
It is not about how we are going to make changes, because we can’t see that answer. The situation is too complex and too out of control. All we can do is say “no.” At first it will not change a thing, but if we can let the emotion build, if we can continue to gather the energy, it will become a force of its own.195 views
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Who is afraid to get political?
by Chelsea Roff (Yoga Modern) on Oct 14, 2011
Many are decrying Seane Corn and other teachers' presence at #OccupyWallStreet this week as "unyogic" and divisive. I beg to differ.1,051 views
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Open Your Mind and the Body Will Follow… Or is it the Other Way Around?
by Temple Symonds on Oct 14, 2011
Often when I teach, I say to the students, ‘Open your mind and the body will follow.’ Today, though, there on the mat and in the practice, I wondered if it might be interchangeable with ‘open my body and my mind will follow.517 views
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Believing in A Higher Purpose: A Lesson from My Dog. ~ Jessica Baker
by elephantjournal.com on Oct 14, 2011
I had adopted this wonderful being and then out of my own personal mistakes and misunderstandings of how to treat and handle dogs, I had turned the dog into an aggressor of my other dogs. I was absolutely heart-broken to have to part with him. He was my favorite at the time and I adored him.389 views
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The grace of slugs: the value of going on retreat
by Writing Our Way Home on Oct 14, 2011
If you gave yourself some silence, time and space, what beauty might you find?33 views
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Day 15: Reading into Rouge
by Marylee Fairbanks on Oct 14, 2011
For a person who doesn’t wear make up I have a ton of makeup.354 views
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Chogyam Trungpa: Buddhism is the Space Between Laziness and Trying Too Hard.
by Benjamin Riggs on Oct 14, 2011
How to work through spiritual materialism: an exchange between Chogyam Trungpa and one of his students.364 views
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Seane Corn Gets Off Her Yoga Mat & Occupies Wall Street.
by Jennifer Cusano on Oct 14, 2011
People raised their yoga mats high above their heads in the name of peace while chanting, marching, and praying. All together. All united for the same goal, and it was beautiful. There was even a group tree pose.8,151 views
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Losing My Future is Not Like Losing an Election.
by Lynn Hasselberger on Oct 14, 2011
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