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Peace from Pieces—Thoughts For 2012. ~ David Firmageby elephantjournal.com on Feb 22, 2012 Everything that makes up my body today was once a breath of my ancestors. They were once mountains, and one day you and I will become a drop of ocean. But, this is our stuff, our bones, and skin, and sweat. What of our souls? What of who we are?82 views |
Label, Label on the Wall, Who’s the Ginchiest of Them All? ~ Tracy Crossleyby elephantjournal.com on Feb 22, 2012 Labels can be used to discount and judge, minimize or maximize how we view another and most of all oneself.51 views |
Follow Your Intuition. ~ Laura Wellsby elephantjournal.com on Feb 22, 2012 I've been led down an interesting, unusual path lately. A few years ago (like most everyone else, I'm sure) my little family and I began to endure a litany of financial hardships that nearly broke us in more profound ways than just in our bank account.133 views |
Anti Yoga Blog. ~ Kevin Collinsby elephantjournal.com on Feb 22, 2012 Everyone from random bloggers to major media are joining the chorus of voices telling yoga teachers to quit their preaching about sharing light and manifesting intentions, stop being so intolerably happy and really just to shut the hell up altogether.263 views |
Burning Man & Anusara tribes in Parallel Conflict: No Coincidence. ~ Carly Mentlikby elephantjournal.com on Feb 21, 2012 Within one week, thousands of Burners found out they didn’t win tickets in the main lottery, and thousands of Anusara yogis found out some information about their teacher that left them questioning.532 views |
Free Range Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be. ~ Laura Rubyby elephantjournal.com on Feb 21, 2012 Free-range chickens are supposed to have ‘access to the outdoors’. But, there are numerous accounts where the door to the ‘outdoors’ is so small only one chicken can fit at a time, the ’outdoors’ is really a small cement slab, or the chickens are kept indoors most of their lives before having any access to any sort of fresh air shortly before their death.997 views |
In Times of Scandal. ~ Meryl Davids Landauby elephantjournal.com on Feb 21, 2012 My experience with that early yoga scandal convinced me that we can appreciate what we get from a person even though they prove to be an imperfect messenger.227 views |
Love Is. ~ Dr. Indu Aroraby elephantjournal.com on Feb 21, 2012 I feel that the only thing required learning anything in the world is Love. I feel that “Love teaches ALL”. One can read it in Sufi compositions, in poetries of the poets, in the philosophies of the philosophers about the grandeur of true love.83 views |
Would You Eat A Dog? {Video/Review} ~ Kelly Brichtaby elephantjournal.com on Feb 21, 2012 Logically—I can't think of a reason not to. Morally—would eating my dog be better than ordering a steak? The whole world can't be vegetarian or vegan, so how would eating dogs help? It might create a relationship between people and the animals we eat that is—now—less common.108 views |
Janus Bifrons and beginnings. ~ Sophie Rochefort-Guillouetby elephantjournal.com on Feb 21, 2012 One of his faces looks to the past, the other to the future. He gave his name to the month that inaugurates the year: January, the month of Janus. It can remind us that we live with memories and anticipation, inheritance and projects in this fragile and fertile intersection is called the present.17 views |
The Logistics of On-Again Off-Again Relationships. ~ Sarah Nabulsiby elephantjournal.com on Feb 20, 2012 When you fall in love with a person and then out of love, and then back into love, and then back out, ad nauseum, while the passing of years performs the requisite expansion in maturity and experience on the both of you, a sense of realism saturates the romance.423 views |
 Serve Your Community, Serve Yourself. ~ Hayley Samuelsonby elephantjournal.com on Feb 20, 2012 Why is it that most of us only do community service when we are required to?69 views |
I Can Quit Thinking Whenever I Want, Dammit! ~ Greg Eckardby elephantjournal.com on Feb 20, 2012 Oh, no, I'm thinking again!363 views |
Bilingual Baby Learns More Than French. ~ Lindsay Friedmanby elephantjournal.com on Feb 20, 2012 I see my education more than going through the motions in order to graduate –– I see it as bunch of little opportunities helping me accomplish my ambitions.284 views |
The Golden Collar Awards & the Plight of Homeless Dogs Everywhere. ~ Lisa Riveraby elephantjournal.com on Feb 20, 2012 I was invited to attend the first Golden Collar Awards on February 13th. This strategically timed event coincides with much of the award season drama that goes on in Los Angeles from January thru March.86 views |
Five Reasons Why I Hate Yoga. ~ Alison Kelly, RYTby elephantjournal.com on Feb 20, 2012 All I want to do is push a little bit further into my twisting pose, but all of my energy and attention is into making sure my sphincter is squeezed shut. Oh right, and I'm suppose to breathe. I don't think so!421 views |
Drink it All In: Being Appreciative for the Present. ~ M.J. Belleby elephantjournal.com on Feb 20, 2012 The future holds the promise of all our dreams come to fruition, and the present is a total inconvenience, an afterthought, a mere stepping stone to that gilded future we've painted in our imaginations.491 views |
Doing Your Duty. ~ Toko-pa Turnerby elephantjournal.com on Feb 19, 2012 She says our self-hatred is actually loneliness. It is the pain of our separation from the Family of Things. We have created a self-referencing system which habitually takes of the Earth and gives nothing back.384 views |
Is Yoga Self-Serving? ~ Emelia Symington Fedyby elephantjournal.com on Feb 19, 2012 “Getting up for sadhana in the morning is a totally selfish act - for personal strength, for personal intuition, for personal sharpness, for personal discipline, and overall for absolute personal prosperity.” ~Yogi Bhajan310 views |
A (Love) Letter To The Ladies. ~ April Dawn Ricchuitoby elephantjournal.com on Feb 18, 2012 What makes you a woman is how you breathe life into everything you come into contact with, with the breath of fresh air that you are.1,322 views |
Reasons not to Meditate. ~ Jim Sindtby elephantjournal.com on Feb 18, 2012 The endless speculation is more interesting than knowing.739 views |
Surrender Your Addiction to Suffering: Part One. ~ Carolyn Elliottby elephantjournal.com on Feb 18, 2012 Your life may have lots of wondrous things in it, but still you wake up in the morning with a feeling of dread that could impress Franz Kafka. This feeling can shake off at some point during the day-- or it can grip you continuously.636 views |
Now Would Be a Good Time: In Light of the Changing Yogic Times, a Reminder. ~ Ally Bogardby elephantjournal.com on Feb 18, 2012 And in the name of the practice of yoga, now would be a very good time to place the awakening, consciousness and heart of everybody on your personal altar regardless of personal opinion and differences.373 views |
Yoga Rocks the Butte. ~ Sara Elizabeth Ivanhoeby elephantjournal.com on Feb 18, 2012 I kept vowing to go to sleep after a long day of yoga, meditation and lectures, but I couldn't tear myself away—it was too real, too soulful.197 views |
Beating Your Brain: Soothing the Savage within & Making the most of Music. ~ April Dawn Ricchuitoby elephantjournal.com on Feb 18, 2012 Although they say that music soothes the savage beast, you don’t need to be a savage beast to make the most of the benefits that mood boosting music can offer.47 views |
A Journey Toward Health. ~ Lynette Sucharby elephantjournal.com on Feb 17, 2012 When Tammy’s body started to send her messages she listened. Her hands swelled. Her shoulders ached. Her joints filled with pain. She didn’t know what was wrong but she persisted in finding out.124 views |
Is Social Media the Key to Enlightenment? ~ Angela Arnettby elephantjournal.com on Feb 17, 2012 What do we do when a cloak of anonymity provides just the shot of cyber courage we needed to succumb to the urge to make snarky, judgmental, hurtful comments or implications that we would never dream of making when we are sharing a dinner table or bus seat with our conversant?85 views |
Yoga Unveiled: A User’s Guide to the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. ~ Godfrey Devereuxby elephantjournal.com on Feb 17, 2012 To approach Patanjali as if he is impossible to understand or relate to, as he has been made to by many, is to deny yourself an invaluable guide to the human condition.223 views |
Back to Yoga Basics. ~ Rachel Hanberryby elephantjournal.com on Feb 17, 2012 Surely these scandals are the Maya of our modern world, a distraction to keep us from seeing the bigger picture.233 views |
Embrace the Toot. ~ Jenny Fosterby elephantjournal.com on Feb 16, 2012 So I say: to make the pants-puff more bearable, we simply have to give up the idea of “bearing” it and embrace it as a healthy and hilarious part of life. Stop being embarrassed about it and own the fart.163 views |
Sensory Overload:The Importance of Downtime In a Sensory Stimulating Society. ~ Rachel Gray-Safyurtluby elephantjournal.com on Feb 16, 2012 I am a better mother, wife, and person when I respect my nervous system and my babies' nervous systems. My mind becomes clear, my mood becomes calm, and my soul feels at peace. Ditto for my little ones.975 views |
Fear is a Lack of Gratitude. ~ Carolyn Elliottby elephantjournal.com on Feb 15, 2012 Every time we feel threatened by an actual or possible situation, we're forgetting both to be grateful for all the wonders we've received in the past, and all the wonders inherent in what we think may be threatening us.238 views |
Surviving Very Poor. ~ Monique Ruffinby elephantjournal.com on Feb 15, 2012 This was the scariest decision I ever made –– to become a stay-at-home single parent for a child with special needs; a choice that would change the trajectory of my life forever...I have also learned that very poor has much more to do with the spirit of a person than it does with the balance in their bank account.151 views |
Feng Shui in the Home: Balance your Home to Maximize Interior Design. ~ Jo-Ann Roganby elephantjournal.com on Feb 15, 2012 Once your home is “Feng Shui’d,” you will be surprised how well your personal belongings and creative work now fits into the “vibe” of your living space.267 views |
The Buddha on Food Stamps. ~ Joan Whitacreby elephantjournal.com on Feb 15, 2012 Standing in line at a Whole Foods in an upscale mall, I was accompanied by others who were also exercising their health wise, environmentally friendly, and economically privileged choices.854 views |
The Language of Relationships, Part One. ~ Tracy Crossleyby elephantjournal.com on Feb 15, 2012 This kind of a handy-dandy list would help you in the midst of a WWIII scramble with your partner or in deciding if you want to get out of Dodge or play patty-cake.167 views |
Your Day Has Come. ~ Max Zografosby elephantjournal.com on Feb 15, 2012 With no debt or mouths to feed, I can keep my breath for longer. I’m not invested in the industrial age. There is no real downside for me.55 views |
Tourism for Poor People. ~ Hayley Samuelsonby elephantjournal.com on Feb 15, 2012 How to travel if you have no money.219 views |
May All Beings Be Happy. ~ Kelly Greyby elephantjournal.com on Feb 14, 2012 I could only sit and tell him of the Buddha with one eye crying and one eye laughing and how at some point, you experience so much loss that you end up laughing143 views |
The Climb Before the Descent: Embracing Struggle and Release. ~ Hannah Greenstreetby elephantjournal.com on Feb 14, 2012 Even though the decent is the climax of the ride, the climb breeds it’s own unique satisfaction.259 views |
The Valentine’s Day Talking Bookmark: Share the Love. ~ Nicole Maniezby elephantjournal.com on Feb 13, 2012 The Valentine's Day Talking Bookmark is a simple and fun project to share with your kids. Learn about their friends as you help them decide which friend gets which bookmark. Discuss what makes a good friend. Share the love.59 views |
Happy St. Rusty’s Day. ~ Christianne Tisdaleby elephantjournal.com on Feb 13, 2012 …1,092 views |
Gay Rights Victory in Washington State.by elephantjournal.com on Feb 13, 2012 That's right, same-sex couples will now be able to tie the knot in the northwestern state.78 views |
Getting Heart Smart and Maintaining A “Heart On”. ~ April Dawn Ricchuitoby elephantjournal.com on Feb 13, 2012 Let’s talk love. Crazy, unapologetic, fierce, fabulous SELF LOVE. We cannot love another until we love ourselves. Our relationships with others will never be any better than the relationship we have with ourselves.70 views |
Men are Animals. ~ Alexa Maxwellby elephantjournal.com on Feb 13, 2012 How often have I heard a frustrated women exclaim this?140 views |
Are Your Progressive Eating Habits Meeting Medieval Working Conditions? ~ Lindsay Friedmanby elephantjournal.com on Feb 13, 2012 What does sustainable food mean to you? Does it mean healthy, organic, pesticide free and GMO free? Does your definition also include sustainable workers’ rights?307 views |
Dear Valentine’s Day: I Loathe You. I Love You. ~ Keileen Dillonby elephantjournal.com on Feb 13, 2012 And what about the greatest love? Self love.386 views |
New Rules for Sex, for Men. ~ Owen Marcusby elephantjournal.com on Feb 13, 2012 My warning – following the simple directions of the article and being present will shift your relationship. The intimacy of your sex will generalize into your entire relationship.1,089 views |
Happy Dharmic Valentine’s Day. ~ Toongi Dasiby elephantjournal.com on Feb 13, 2012 As aspiring yogis and other sundry dharmic followers, the topic of love and romance takes on a different meaning to us.584 views |
 Learn to Meditate via Thumb Twiddling. ~ Donna Wildingby elephantjournal.com on Feb 13, 2012 “Thumb twiddling is frequently used as an example of a useless, time-wasting activity.”1While this made me laugh thinking of all the “time-wasting” he's done, I disagree. After much twiddling myself, I believe that a great deal of his calmness & coolness is in fact, from thumb twiddling.53 views |
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