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The Compassionate Witness: Why Being Self-Centred is Selflessby Lindsey Lewis on Nov 16, 2011 It doesn’t come naturally: sitting in quietude, seeming stoic and somewhat dispassionate while someone you care deeply about is in tears. Their pain is real, the suffering is there. Their desire to have you help them ease it is palpable–even through the phone line. “I don’t know what to do,” they moan in anguish. Solutions [...] 454 views |
I’m Swamped, Stoked, & Nutty Busy. What I’m Learning about Letting Go, Getting on with it, & Getting it All Done.by Lindsey Lewis on Sep 30, 2011 Maybe the message is more important than the way it’s delivered. Maybe the intention is greater than the sum of its parts. Maybe it’s enough sometimes just to say, ‘This is all I have to give right now.” 842 views |
Busting Stress and Anxiety Using the Power of Your Intuitive Mind. 7 Waysby Lindsey Lewis on Aug 16, 2011 There’s a saying that’s popular in the yoga world, by a man with a very fit mind: “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” That’s from Albert Einstein. The biggest benefit of beginning [...] 1,391 views |
 The beauty of being selfish, or, why putting yourself first is altruistic.by Lindsey Lewis on Aug 3, 2011 Truisms aren’t always true. “Pain is gain.” Or, “Good people always put others first.” Baloney. Sometimes being selfish is the most selfless thing you can do. 1,636 views |
Feeling Overwhelmed? 10 Yoga + Mindfulness Tools to Maximize Your Lifeby Lindsey Lewis on Jul 13, 2011 We all feel overwhelmed sometimes. Sometimes all the time. Powerful yoga and mindfulness tools help us tap into calm and strong and stay that way. 1,067 views |
Just Because I’m a Spoiled Middle Class White Girl Doesn’t Mean I Have to Act Like One.by Lindsey Lewis on Jun 26, 2011 Yoga Lessons from the Man Living in a Parking Garage. Full disclosure: I’m ashamed of myself. I’m embarrassed of the way I have acted. I have ignored, snubbed, looked down on, and made people uncomfortable by letting my fear and discomfort take over. Please don’t sit by me. Please don’t approach me. I don’t want [...] 1,515 views |
What are we Really Looking for? 10 Things People Want from a Yoga Teacherby Lindsey Lewis on Jun 8, 2011 Why do we go to yoga class? Why do we really like certain teachers? When I first started teaching, I thought about this a lot. I wondered what I could do to boost class sizes, make people happy, and feel like I was making a difference. I tried lots of different things. None of them [...] 1,176 views |
Sex, Violence and our Soulsby Lindsey Lewis on May 25, 2011 This subject is a biggie. For me personally and, probably, globally. I can’t say that I pay close attention to what’s broadcast as news in countries outside North America or the UK. But I have a hunch it’s similar. BLOOD, SEX, VIOLENCE AND PROFIT Because we humans are drawn to sex and violence. Everyone knows [...] 286 views |
I Believe in Us. 5 Small Acts Make a Big Difference. Inspired by Johnny Reid’s Today I’m Gonna Try and Change the World [vid]by Lindsey Lewis on May 13, 2011 I believe in love. I believe small acts of kindness make a big difference. …right now, someone is giving someone else their seat on the bus, and transforming their experience of that moment—or even their whole day. I believe in the human capacity to grow, to evolve, to create positive change in the world—even if [...] 504 views |
Grab Ahold or Let it Ride? What Yoga + Positive Psychology Teach us About Finding Flowby Lindsey Lewis on May 4, 2011 FLOW. What the heck is it? And how do we get it in our lives? If you’re a fan of positive psychology or the name Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi rings a bell this concept is probably familiar to you. From what I can tell, the basic idea is this: when we find ourselves challenged just enough but [...] 736 views |
Q + A with Anusara Yoga Founder John Friend. Guess What He Said About Kundalini Shakti?!by Lindsey Lewis on Apr 15, 2011 1. You talk in this video interview done by Waylon Lewis of Elephant Journal (video below) about hearing about supernatural yogis as a young boy who seemed like superheroes. Can you talk a bit about your take on the metaphysical benefits of being devoted to yoga? The Siddhis are accomplishments and powers that allow us [...] 1,871 views |
Yoga for Everyday People: Yoga Tips + Pema Chodron On Staying Zen Off the Matby Lindsey Lewis on Apr 13, 2011 There’s a story Pema Chodron tells in her book Start Where You Are, about a hermit living in cave for twenty years. It goes something like this: “An unconventional teacher named Patrul Rinpche showed up at the cage, and the hermit humbly and sweetly welcomed him in. Patrul Rinpoche said, “Tell me, what have you [...] 857 views |
Thich Nhat Hanh on Cell Phones + 11 Mindfulness Tips for Meditation & Daily Living.by Lindsey Lewis on Mar 23, 2011 Mindfulness is probably one of the most powerful stress busters out there. It’s also a phenomenal way to become fully engaged with life. Practiced and taught by teachers in traditions ranging from Vedic and Tantric to Buddhist and everything in between, it’s a versatile practice that we often gain access to through meditation, but can [...] 8,857 views |
Stress, Violent Outbursts, Insecurities: 5 Things I’m Grateful Forby Lindsey Lewis on Mar 9, 2011 It’s easy to list a nearly never-ending stream of positive things in my life that I’m grateful for. I believe most people can come up with at least 10. But I’ve been thinking lately about all the things in my life that have been painful. Things that hurt, have made me feel afraid, have made me sick. [...] 806 views |
It’s a Calling, and it Speaks to you Every Day, to Walk Your Wayby Lindsey Lewis on Feb 25, 2011 What’s calling you? What’s missing? There are these stereotypes about yoga teachers. We’re flighty, naïve, innocent, good at meditating but bad at balancing our checkbooks, great as floaters, bad as planners. And don’t ask us to meet a deadline—we don’t even know what that is. But…what if we do? And what if we can? Ask [...] 494 views |
Tantric Kundalini: Is it All About the Sex?by Lindsey Lewis on Feb 22, 2011 Kundalini isn’t complicated. My mentor and friend Swami Maheshananda Saraswati—swamiji for short—explains it very simply. Prana, the life-force or vital energy that is all around us and embodied by our breath, enters our system through sahasrara, our crown chakra, and travels down into muladhara, our root chakra. There, for most of us, it lays dormant [...] 981 views |
Valentine’s: Illuminate your Night with The Neon Bonfire.by Lindsey Lewis on Feb 11, 2011 This stunning, illuminating, evocative 5-minute film by Thom Stitt captures it all. Beautifully. And just in time for Valentine’s Day. I’m inspired to write reams about this–I have an entire poem in my head–but I’ll let Thom’s work speak for itself. It’s poetry in motion, anyway. p.s. the film is part of an upcoming series [...] 305 views |
Don’t Freak Out: 6 Yoga Tips for Staying Cool When Life Goes Nuts.by Lindsey Lewis on Feb 8, 2011 LIFE IN THE NUTS LANE I know this happens to you, too: sometimes, life goes nuts. One day you’re floating along, taking naps, chatting on the phone to your friends, and meandering from one place to the next. And the next you’re literally running from one commitment to the other, snoozing on the bus, and sending out mass [...] 771 views |
Baby, You’re My Teacher [grreat video]by Lindsey Lewis on Jan 26, 2011 It’s true! Babies can’t help but be great yogis. This video’s gotten some serious play, for a seriously good reason. The ad team who did this for Libero clearly did their research. Or maybe they had a yogi on-board. What makes this video so fantastic is the very real fact it touches on: Yoga is [...] 665 views |
Movie Stars Wesley Snipes and Michelle Williams Bringing Yoga to Jailmates and Single Momsby Lindsey Lewis on Jan 11, 2011 First it was Michelle Williams raving about… 151 views |
5 Yoga Tips for Better Sex.by Lindsey Lewis on Dec 29, 2010 Ladies, feeling like you want to stoke the sensual fire? Since the advent of Viagra, pharmaceutical companies have been on the hunt for an equivalent “solution” to female “sexual dysfunctions.” I’m putting those terms in quotation marks because they deserve to be treated critically. I’m opposed to pill-popping and the idea that women’s sexual responses can [...] 6,528 views |
6 Yoga Tips for Body Love & Shedding Weight.by Lindsey Lewis on Dec 15, 2010 Learning to honor and nourish our bodies is a much more powerful, effective practice than counting calories. 1. Eat mindfully. Not on the run. Not in front of the TV. Not reading. (Except sometimes.) Notice the texture, color, and sensation of the food in your mouth. A regular yoga practice helps to develop mindfulness in [...] 1,037 views |
Yoga, Creativity, Nature: What’s the Dark Night of the Soul Have to do With it?by Lindsey Lewis on Dec 1, 2010 “The dark night of the soul.” Have you heard of it? It’s a term that’s coming up in conversations, magazines, and books I’m reading lately. From what I can tell, it’s a kind of like a soul-driven obstacle course. A personal spiritual journey, where the person going through it feels like they’re getting slammed from [...] 280 views |
Broken: I’m Hurting. Is it Helping?by Lindsey Lewis on Nov 16, 2010 So, Waylon Lewis, uber-inspiring founder of this great online mag, has been on us columnists to get off our duffs and do our stuff–write. White Hot Truth maven Danielle LaPorte–who I am eternally grateful to for helping me create this incredible, freeing, loving life I’m now living–once wrote a post about how to blog. She [...] 604 views |
5 Yoga-Inspired Tools to Beat Insomnia IIby Lindsey Lewis on Oct 27, 2010 Apparently the National Sleep Foundation is onto something. If the number of hits to my last post, Yoga Tools for Sleeping Well, are any indication, their statement that 65% of all Americans have trouble sleeping is bang-on. So here are some more tools I’ve used along the way to become a slumbering, dreamy sleeper. I [...] 1,535 views |
Yoga Tools for Sleeping Wellby Lindsey Lewis on Oct 13, 2010 Sleeping can be stressful. How many of us have lain awake, aching to sleep, praying to sleep, practically giving ourselves a hernia trying to convince our body to “effing go to sleep already!”? 65% of all Americans have (National Sleep Foundation 2008 ), and, though Canada doesn’t seem to have an official sleep pollster, I [...] 1,790 views |
Yoga for You, You Crazy, Busy Thang: 5 Tips.by Lindsey Lewis on Sep 29, 2010 Strapped-for-Time Yoga. But what if you really, truly, are strapped for time? 5 Tips on how you can still bring the benefits of yoga into your crazy, busy life. 884 views |
Yoga Body, Your Body: Dreamby Lindsey Lewis on Sep 15, 2010 Yoga Teachers Have Their Dream Bodies Okay, full disclosure: I just said that to get your attention. I’m not going to argue that all yoga teachers always feel great about the way they look. But I will argue that most yoga teachers–and yoga students–have a pretty good relationship with their bodies. Top 5 Reasons Why Yoga Gives [...] 1,405 views |
Yoga Rant: Escapist or Taking Action?by Lindsey Lewis on Aug 31, 2010 Yoga is not a way to escape. It’s a way to become more fully engaged. 525 views |
Don’t Freak Out! Kundalini Yoga Tips for Going with the Flowby Lindsey Lewis on Aug 17, 2010 Fear or anxiety and the need to control are like the flip sides of the same character trait. Kundalini yoga tips on how to release fear and go with the flow. “Everything is going to be okay. You don’t need to control everything.” One of my favourite Kundalini teachers, Gloria Latham, spoke right through our [...] 864 views |
 Enough already! Is yoga freaking people out?by Lindsey Lewis on Aug 4, 2010 When is yoga just way too much? We’ve got yoga blogs, yoga products, yoga-branded health food—Prana nuts anyone?—Yogi Tea, cat and dog yoga calendars, and more and more yoga studios arising all over the place. Do I love it? Yes. Do the people in my life who don’t practice yoga love it? No. YOGA BACKLASH [...] 1,163 views |
 Failing Spectacularly: Reporting from the Front Lines of a Yoga Practice Gone Haywireby Lindsey Lewis on Jul 21, 2010 Love. Passion. Satisfaction. Happiness. Bliss. Nirvana. What do you want? This question, and the one that follows—How do you get what you want?—has been a strong theme in my life, and recently on my blog, over the past few weeks. Conversations with friends have turned around to this subject. It’s popped up in blogs I [...] 377 views |
In Pursuit of Truth: 5 Yoga Tips for Tapping into Your Heart Centreby Lindsey Lewis on Jul 6, 2010 Is it okay to just be okay? Is it enough to just feel sorta happy? Maybe mostly content? As readers of my blog know, lately I’ve been considering the concept of Truth—or, Satya, as it’s known in Sanskrit. Truth is one of my words for 2010, along with Let and Love (inspired by White Hot [...] 1,013 views |
 Yoga and Shopping: Enemies or BFFs?by Lindsey Lewis on Jun 23, 2010 Man, it’s hard to tell sometimes. Do we want the Ice Silver necklace from Lemon Park’s The Rocks collection because it’s simply the accessory of our dreams? Is it because PR maven Samantha Geer keeps wearing their pieces to mega media events? Or is it because we’re just plain feeling, well, ‘covetous‘? Not a word [...] 236 views |
Top 5 Yoga Stress Busters.by Lindsey Lewis on Jun 8, 2010 Here’s what happens when we get stressed. Our sympathetic nervous system leaps in—with the best of intentions, to help us out. Suddenly, our heart starts pounding to increase circulation, our muscles contract to get ready for action, our digestive system slows down, our awareness centres power up, and adrenaline and the stress hormone cortisol pump [...] 1,849 views |
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