About: Julie JC Peters
Posts by Julie JC Peters:
How to Speak to a Woman. {Poem}by Julie JC Peters on May 9, 2013 When you see a woman—and she is beautiful—and you want to tell her so, don’t! There may be danger in it: “Don’t you dare call me beautiful, she says, right after I said it.” Poet RC Weslowski has some other ideas for things you can say instead: Like elephant journal on Facebook. [...] 383 views |
In Praise of Periods, or, 5 Ways to Stop Ragging on Your Rag.by Julie JC Peters on Apr 30, 2013 We’ve been taught to see our periods as nothing but a nuisance, a uniquely female inconvenience that prevents us from achieving powerful accomplishments like playing tennis in short shorts or whirling in slow motion on beaches. We’ve been taught we need “sanitary napkins” or “feminine hygiene products” that euphemistically imply that our blood, and especially our vaginas, are unsanitary and dangerous to touch. 4,988 views |
Fat is Not an Emotion.by Julie JC Peters on Jan 8, 2013 When we struggle to keep our unruly mouths shut, perhaps we turn to the one thing we do have control over: what we put in them. We scapegoat the fat in our bodies because it will shift and change at our will to some degree, but we were to truly succeed at eradicating our fat, we would die. 2,205 views |
Not all men fantasize about being a clueless baby man with a hot wife. Rebuttal to “The Spiritual Dos & Don’ts of Being with a Woman.”by Julie JC Peters on Nov 12, 2012 For too long, women have been stereotyped as long-suffering Goddesses who must be worshiped and cared for and given constant orgasms for all the work we’ve done over the centuries while men have been running around having all the fun. 2,037 views |
Exploring the Feminine: Poisonous plants, Secrets, Poetry & Bellydance. {Video}by Julie JC Peters on Oct 22, 2012 Ever had a secret? The kind that burns in your belly. You know it’s wrong, but it feels so good. 431 views |
I’m White. Say I have “Neutral Ethnicity.” I dare you.by Julie JC Peters on Sep 18, 2012 “Some believe that it presents a stereotype of Asians excelling in technology and/or the sciences.” After all, calling an Asian person smart is almost as bad as saying they are bad drivers. 580 views |
I Need to be in Control.by Julie JC Peters on Aug 3, 2012 I think sexual violence is a topic that should be explored in media and in some consensual bedrooms (or dungeons, perhaps). 789 views |
In Defense of Anger—or, Life Lessons from the Incredible Hulk.by Julie JC Peters on May 21, 2012 ’ve gotten tired of beating myself up for feeling hurt. I started beating up my pillows and writing articles about the Hulk instead. Giving my anger a chance to speak rather than swallowing it has shown me its amazing ability to burn burns right through the insecure crap that confuses your instincts and what you know in your heart to be true. 1,673 views |
Poem for Kali: Goddess of Divine Annihilation.by Julie JC Peters on May 4, 2012 what if I was given the chance to destroy everything? What if Kali, the goddess of destruction, could take my hand and annihilate this whole world for the mess of cruelty and politics it sometimes appears to be? Instead of leading a one-woman grenade riot, I created something. This poem: 551 views |
For when you are so deep in love you don’t know how to get out. {Poem}by Julie JC Peters on Apr 11, 2012 I wrote this poem years ago, in the thick of a relationship that was….well, many things. Let’s just say I got some good poems out of it. 1,458 views |
How to Spot a Predator in Your Yoga Studio & What to Do About It.by Julie JC Peters on Apr 1, 2012 Yoga communities like to think they are immune to this sort of thing. Because we share values that include trust, opening your heart, and prioritizing community over ego, we think no one could ever be so non-yogic as to rape someone. 2,091 views |
The True Key To Happiness: Peeing in the Pool.by Julie JC Peters on Mar 10, 2012 When you do it, it’s not just the other kids that get pee on them. You get pee on you, too. The pee and the water are mixed together. And we are all in the same pool. 1,003 views |
To All the Men I’ve Ever Known & to Those I Haven’t Met Yet: I Want You To Know 10 Things.by Julie JC Peters on Mar 2, 2012 Consider your relationship to body hair removal systems. Think about how much they hurt and how they make you feel. Consider that chest hair, soft on a cheek, is sweet and kind and warmer in winter. 18,643 views |
A gorgeous & melancholy cure for a heart that needs breaking: Poems for April by Alice in the River. {Music Video}by Julie JC Peters on Feb 16, 2012 Seattle singer-songwriter Alice Sandahl breaks my heart in this video. Her face, her voice, the beautifully shot video, and the stunning poetry of the song. 680 views |
Secrets of a Great Yoga Class. And the Movie Titanic.by Julie JC Peters on Feb 15, 2012 Ever left a class feeling totally blissed out, beautiful, weak in the knees, like you’ve forgotten your own name? Have you also left a class feeling irritated and uncomfortable? Well, there’s a reason for that, and it ain’t magic. 752 views |
Tantric Philosophy, Sex ‘Til Dawn & The Smell of Your Armpits {poem}.by Julie JC Peters on Jan 21, 2012 It’s like f*cking the queen! Only–not the queen, like some gorgeous part of the monarchy, and I haven’t showered yet! 3,510 views |
10 Things I Learned at the San Francisco Yoga Journal Conference: Day 3by Julie JC Peters on Jan 17, 2012 What you hate or feel uncomfortable about in other people is actually a mirror for what you don’t want to face in yourself. 404 views |
10 Things I learned at the San Francisco Yoga Journal Conference: Day 2by Julie JC Peters on Jan 15, 2012 7. Sometimes when you do yoga, especially when you get still and quiet and your thoughts run in circles for 20 minutes, you can get oversensitive and loopy. Don’t get on a crowded San Francisco bus through Chinatown during a Chinese New Year Fair immediately after this kind of experience. You will want to die. 735 views |
10 Things I Learned at the San Francisco Yoga Journal Conference: Day 1.by Julie JC Peters on Jan 15, 2012 I learned: when men ejaculate, it’s like a mini-period. That’s the time to cuddle them and let them rest, just how you’d want to be treated during your time of the month. Right guys? 1,064 views |
Why The Sexy Equinox Yoga Video Pissed Me Off.by Julie JC Peters on Jan 11, 2012 The Equinox video turns its gaze on this woman as an object, and defines her as a “perfectly honed yoga body” that can, robot-like, do anything. As a yoga teacher and a woman, I feel that gaze turning its head, Exorcist-like, on me–This Yoga Body is valued for its butt cheeks and MOST incredible yoga poses (dance, monkey dance!). She is not valued here for her teaching, her passions, or anything about her mind at all. 41,043 views |
Guruji, Get your hand off my vagina: The modern yoga teacher-student relationship.by Julie JC Peters on Jan 6, 2012 Classically, yoga was transmitted carefully, privately, from a master to a student, one to one. A little like an STD. In modern Western society, yoga is transmitted from one teacher to huge groups of students at a time, usually through drop in classes. Much like an STD. 7,403 views |
Feeling upside down? This will definitely make you feel better.by Julie JC Peters on Dec 23, 2011 Ever wondered if stars ever wish on a shooting human? Or what butterflies get in their stomach when they get scared? Poem by Ian Keteku, animation by Indie Venture. 885 views |
Getting Naked in the Garden.by Julie JC Peters on Dec 20, 2011 Now, when we fall in love, we fall gingerly, with a rope and a shit ton of climbing gear. We go rock by rock, and we choose when to let go. We are better at this now, and our relationships are richer and more interesting, and they don’t have any more guarantees than they ever did. We just have a lot of gear with us. So we can climb back up if we need to. 6,021 views |
Dance with Ghosts—Yoga, Ballet, Poetry = wow.by Julie JC Peters on Dec 15, 2011 The video below is a gorgeous dance called Variations on Surya Namaskara, and it inspired me to write a poem, so that dance, yoga, and poetry can all hang out together here: 2,932 views |
 Poem: creepy but thoughtful.by Julie JC Peters on Nov 22, 2011 I have been carving out pounds of sacred flesh, branding each one with a name and a portrait in perfect inflammation 499 views |
How Yoga Can Make you a Better Artist (Hangover Optional)by Julie JC Peters on Nov 13, 2011 We need creativity in all aspects of our lives, and in order to access it, we have to be willing to step out of our comfortable boxes. Here are some of the ways yoga can work even better for your creative endeavors than drinking, smoking, and hating your life: 1,410 views |
On Why I Dressed as My Ex for Halloween.by Julie JC Peters on Nov 1, 2011 It’s not, however, zombies that haunt most of us on this and any other day of the year, and we’d be lucky if it was great grandpa throwing down some wisdom. It’s probably, you know, your ex. 1,298 views |
Why I Won’t Occupy Any Street.by Julie JC Peters 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.” 2,744 views |
Beautiful women, beautiful music, crazy yoga moves.by Julie JC Peters on Oct 8, 2011 Julie Peters and Rachelle Tersigni of East Side Yoga Studio in Vancouver, BC, choreographed a yoga dance routine and performed it at the studio’s Art Party, a night for the artists in the community to share what they do. It was inspired by nothing more than Shri, or Beauty in Sanskrit. 1,362 views |
In which Rumi & I write ourselves melancholy birthday letters.by Julie JC Peters on Sep 30, 2011 can’t fathom being here in this world unless it’s for a reason bigger than this hurt, broken, healing, beautiful, terrified body. So hitch me up on your bow, Something Bigger, help me out. I have been trying to do this all alone, and when I don’t understand, I fall to pieces, I am making a mess. I am making a mess of love and destruction. Help. 1,604 views |
What I want in a man.by Julie JC Peters on Sep 29, 2011 Because sometimes life is scary, and you just want that super happy ending. 4,252 views |
That Sexy Yoga Playlist.by Julie JC Peters on Aug 22, 2011 The playlist is called Heart and Soul Yoga, and it is not for the faint of heart or soul; also not for those that prefer saluting the sun to dirges. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. 8,872 views |
When Yoga is not like Sex. And when it is like Sex.by Julie JC Peters on Aug 18, 2011 So as we moved through Sun A, Sun B, warrior 2, triangle, other side, blah, blah, blah, it felt like making love with fluorescent lights on, or doing it with one eye on the digital clock by the bed, leaving me looking down at my pedicure-deprived padas and thinking, Man, why am I doing this? 5,103 views |
Yoga, anorexia, torture and biceps made of fighter jets.by Julie JC Peters on Aug 7, 2011 In 1984, a Chilean torturer spoke on his experiences and said this: “You don’t look at their face, even when you put prods in their mouth. You keep their eyes covered. The secret is not to look into their eyes.” It’s like that between our brains and our bodies. 5,605 views |
Time to Shut the Hell Up. You know, Yogically.by Julie JC Peters on Jul 28, 2011 The chakras work the same way an open palm does–it is an offering, a giving away, a showing forth, but it requires the sweet and necessary possibility of receiving. We forget that it is really important to sometimes shut up and listen. 3,985 views |
That’s Just the Story of My Life: How to Lie to Yourself Better.by Julie JC Peters on Jun 22, 2011 by Julie (JC) Peters Did you know that there is a part of your brain whose sole purpose is to make shit up? Literally, there is an information processing area whose work is to make the world make sense–to string together details and assume meaning out of it. For example, we all have a little [...] 2,795 views |
Why Lying Broken in a Pile on Your Bedroom Floor is a Good Idea. ~ Julie (JC) Petersby Julie JC Peters on Jun 1, 2011 There is a goddess from Hindu mythology that teaches us that, in this moment, in this pile on the floor, you are more powerful than you’ve ever been… 192,764 views |
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