Quotable Insights: The Nature of Time
by Victoria Klein on Feb 15, 2011
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu
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A Journey Into Terrier Consciousness. ~Tara Skye Goldin, N.D.
by elephantjournal.com on Feb 14, 2011
It began with wanting to feel better, happier, more energetic…
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Quotable Insights: The Benefit of Being Lost
by Victoria Klein on Feb 1, 2011
“If we don’t get lost, we’ll never find a new route.” – Joan Littlewood
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Green Living Principles: Need vs Want
by Victoria Klein on Jan 20, 2011
…The distinction between a “want” and a “need” has become ever hazier in our culture. In the end, we have more stuff, less money, and are none the happier for the experience.
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Quotable Insights: Perfectly Imperfect
by Victoria Klein on Jan 18, 2011
“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” – Anonymous
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Shaking the No-Yoga Hangover
by Victoria Klein on Jan 6, 2011
Like Elephant Journal’s favorite yoga humorist, Mark Kreloff, my yoga practice is far from perfect. But the problem doesn’t lie with my yoga studio or those that attend … the problem is me.
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Wanting to Have Kids is Selfish.
by R.R. Shakti on Jan 4, 2011
Sure it was a brazen statement, but I was just a punk teenager. I had barely adopted the practice of non-judgement and had a LOT to learn about inclusive communication. Plus, she was family and I was simply speaking my truth. My aunt wanted to know: “So, do you think you might want to have [...]
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(Somewhat) Gentle, Simple Reminders for the New Year
by Victoria Klein on Jan 3, 2011
No matter how you approach it, the New Year is a great time to start fresh, get inspired, and move forward. For many of us, it’s all easier said than done.
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Reflections 2010 Interview with Waylon Lewis
by Donna Freeman on Dec 30, 2010
Waylon Lewis, editor of elephant journal, shares the history of elephant journal and where its going in 2011 and beyond.
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Like Meditation? Join New Facebook Page.
by Benjamin Riggs on Dec 29, 2010
Want daily readings regarding meditation & the spiritual path, instruction for meditation practice, & tons of articles infused with a fresh perspective on traditional spirituality?
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The Magazine of Yoga interviews Waylon Lewis.
by elephantjournal.com on Dec 13, 2010
Update: And here’s part two. “…And now, the cheatcode to read elephant for free forever.” A fun interview by Joslyn Hamilton (yes, her name issss familiar) in The Magazine of Yoga:
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Enough About Elephant Let’s Talk About You: an Interview with Waylon Lewis. ~ Brian Kimmel
by elephantjournal.com on Dec 4, 2010
An Interview with Waylon Lewis, founder and Editor-in-Chief of Elephant Journal and Walk the Talk Show Host. I had the great pleasure of interviewing Waylon Lewis at Espresso Roma, a café on University Hill in Boulder, Colorado. I am an undergraduate, Interdisciplinary Major at Naropa University. The only way he’d agree to an interview, which [...]
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Yes, I taught Franti his first Yoga class…
by R.R. Shakti on Nov 22, 2010
Maybe it was in 2002. I had only been teaching Yoga for a couple years when singer/songwriter
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Safe Sex With The Most Interesting Man In The World.
by Dylan Barmmer on Nov 16, 2010
A week ago today, I ravaged The Most Interesting Man in the World. No, no, no. Not like THAT. Rest assured, The Mad Yogi Poet always has been and always will be as straight as an archer’s pose. Even if he has dipped a sprained toe or two into the oddly weird waters of the [...]
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Poor Little Rich Poet Seeks Next Road Trip. Inquire Within.
by Dylan Barmmer on Oct 15, 2010
The Mad Yogi Poet decided to take his Passionate Poetic Asana on the road for a little bit. And the results were Inspiring for all involved.
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Boulder Green Streets: No Cars for a Day!?
by elephantjournal.com on Sep 16, 2010
BOULDER GREEN STREETS Boulder Green Streets is a new event in Boulder whose mission is to turn public streets into a day to promote active living, sustainability and build community. Thank you to Hillary Griffith for organizing the event. Boulder, Colorado. Sunday, September 19th. 8a.m.-4p.m. East Pearl, 15th to Folsom. (Elephant Journal will be on [...]
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Diasporic Diva Invokes Ancient-Babylonian Demons
by Abigail Wick on Jul 26, 2010
At turns brainy, bombastic, and busty, Jewlia Eisenberg is a modern-day chanteuse, who so happens to commune with ancient-Babylonian demons.
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Teko’s Socks Rock!
by Emma Blue on Jul 23, 2010
Our feet are essential. Socks and shoes are important props for our well—being. Teko is a Boulder based, wind powered sock company who’s top of the line socks, cater to hardcore athletes and casual pedestrians alike. With marino wool sourced from a farm in Argentina that has been farming for decades and meets the GOTS [...]
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Leaving Your Yoga Teachers.
by Melanie Jane Parker on Jul 23, 2010
True teachings are never specific to a time and place. My yoga practice began at home. I have carried it through dorm rooms, student housing, a tiny apartment in Buenos Aires, road trips and a rarely used fitness center—practicing next to an elderly man in his (very loose) underwear. With or without a mat, I [...]
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Curvy Yoga. ~ Anna Guest-Jelley
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 17, 2010
When you’re the curvy girl in your yoga class, things get interesting quickly. “The most important thing is that your feet are together.” I looked up with dread, knowing that the yoga teacher was yelling this particular instruction at me. (Okay, she probably didn’t yell, but she didn’t exactly whisper it, either.) As a yoga [...]
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Exclusive Vinyasa Yoga with Babar. ~Donna Freeman
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 13, 2010
Babar, king of the elephants, has a dedicated home yoga practice. Babar loves to teach yoga to children, however he also has a dedicated home practice of his own where he enjoys exploring all styles of yoga. Recently, he agreed to this exclusive elephant journal photo shoot to encourage creatures of all sizes and shapes [...]
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It’s Right Under Your Nose.
by Emma Blue on Jul 13, 2010
All of the pressure points are said to be in the feet and spreading the toes and fingers releases serotonin. Moses supposes his toeses are roses But Moses supposes erroneously For nobody’s toeses are posies of roses As Moses supposes his toeses to be. — Nursery Rhyme Do you remember the last time you [...]
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Hang Onto Your Ego. ~ Bill Schwartz
by elephantjournal.com on Jul 12, 2010
Our emotions can help wake us up or they can push us over the edge into a state of sheer confusion. ~Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
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Boulder. LOHAS. VIP Party. Password: ‘Elephant.’
by elephantjournal.com on Jun 22, 2010
Update: here’s the photos. Speakeasy Night: Talk softly, with purpose. Meet new old friends. Raise a glass. Celebrate elephant journal. Free Beer & Wine? Say no more. Boulder: VIP LOHAS Party thrown for elephant journal at Dave Query’s Bitter Bar at Happy Noodle. We’re grateful to Rob Thomas of SocialK, one of our first sponsors [...]
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I Love Ele.
by Lindsay Jean Thomson on Jun 16, 2010
The Day of Reckoning is Upon Us! On June 17, our three-month loan expires, and we’re faced with tough choices—going forward more slowly, not growing beyond our choir to those who didn’t know they cared about “the mindful life,” limiting our only one part-time staff person in addition to myself, not paying writers for original [...]
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10 Great Reasons to Support Elephant Journal
by Diana Mercer on Apr 29, 2010
One person can make a difference, and everyone should try. ~ John F. Kennedy As an enthusiastic woman who gets fired up about everything from Pema Chodron to Larkburger, it is not unusual for me to fall passionately under the spell of various causes including the arts, social service, politics, green-living, natural products, and [...]
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Going out with a BANG! My Super-Dynamic Comprehensive Review of Natural Products Expo West, 2010.
by Claire Amber on Mar 16, 2010
Wow! What a show! This past weekend, I attended the 30th annual Natural Products Expo West, in Anaheim, California, and I’m still recovering. For me, it was a sensual experience, with so much to see, many foods to taste, scents to smell, things to touch. I couldn’t claim to be a Natural Products Expo West Virgin, like ele’s founder, [...]
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Saturday Eve, Post “After Party” at Natural Products Expo West, 2010…
by Claire Amber on Mar 14, 2010
Today, I decided to scope out the display cases for things of interest. I wrote down some booth numbers in my little book and headed in to the show. I had to pace myself very carefully. My energy, admittedly, was not great today. I guess that’s what I got for pushing things to the limit, timewise, last night. Guess [...]
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Adventures at Natural Products Expo West, 2010…Friday
by Claire Amber on Mar 13, 2010
For important background info, make sure to read my earlier post entitled “Expo West…Ready or Not, Here I Come!” Getting Acquainted Today, I got a sampling (actually and figuratively) at Natural Products Expo West. It was my second time attending and I was so glad to go in with experience this time around! My game plan was [...]
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Expo West…Ready or Not, Here I Come!
by Claire Amber on Mar 12, 2010
It’s Friday, March 12th and I’m setting off for Natural Products Expo West 2010 with a spirit of adventure and anticipation. This is the second time I’ll be attending for Elephant Journal, and I’m glad to have that experience behind me. It was my very first time reporting at a large event. I think I [...]
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Questions on Forming new Board of Advisors for elephant journal + Walk the Talk Show w Waylon Lewis.
by elephantjournal.com on Feb 2, 2010
Our aim in the next year is to 1) stay alive, 2) move from 115,000 readers/month to 800,000, and 3) to see our talk show resume monthly interviews and be picked up by 20-100 green and other such web sites. We may take on investment from like-minded “smart money,” if that will help us regain [...]
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If we make 6,000 Fans by Friday, Oprah has a surprise for you.
by elephantjournal.com on Dec 15, 2009
You get a car! You get a car! You get a car! Ever-y-body gets a car! Click “suggest to friends” here, and help us get to 6,000 Facebook Fans by Friday. Fans equal traction with our community, and beyond. Traction equals traffic, dialogue, and two-way learning. Traffic equals advertising, which keeps us and our small [...]
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How To Eat an Elephant, Part 1 — reinventing Elephant in service to all beings
by Cameron Burgess on Aug 30, 2009
First is a series of blogs on re-visioning, re-strategizing and re-inventing elephantjournal.com in service to all. ~Cameron Burgess elephant journal has been around for a while — almost eight years (I think). I first discovered them in 2003, when the magazine was still growing and being published. I have no idea how — it was [...]
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Green Magazine Covers.
by elephantjournal.com on Aug 10, 2009
Green Magazine? It’s a paradoxical term: magazines are heavy to transport, and made of trees, and even if they have recycled content, and use soy-based inks, it’s an energy intensive process. The greenest magazine—by far—is, like this one, a web site. – Worst of all, magazine distribution in America is corrupt, inefficient, incompetent, about as new green as the [...]
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Ode to Mattie Dean Garden.
by Waylon Lewis on Jun 22, 2009
A Neighbor’s Lament: Don’t we have better things to do with our bad-economy-pinched US tax dollars than run a gas-guzzling lawnmower over a beautiful, wild, ecologically-diverse park that was willed to be left in its wild state? I live in downtown Boulder, Colorado. There’s a pocket park behind my house that even most longtime Boulder [...]
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elephantjournal.com: six months after going paperless, we’re six ads from break even.
by Waylon Lewis on May 18, 2009
In plain English: check out our ads. If you can support, we’ll support you right back with an ad on every page, in our weekly e-newsletter which goes to thousands of greenies and LOHASers and mindful lifers. Our traffic is steadily growing, so the longer you lock your ad in for the cheaper it’ll get [...]
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MNN names Top 10 Green Video Blogs.
by Walk The Talk Show on May 9, 2009
Who’re the Greenest Video Blogs of them all? elephantjournal.com & elevision, now called Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis, makes the list courtesy Karl Burkart of Green Dig and mega green site MNN. Two weeks after being named a top ten green twitter tweeter you should follow by Shea Gunther of MNN, elephant journal [...]
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Top Ten Yoga Twitter Tweeters you should Follow.
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 27, 2009
I’ve only been on Twitter for say five months…and it took me the first few months—until I started using Tweetdeck (advice and link here)—to get Twitter. Basically, Twitter’s a great, free way of networking, sharing, learning about cool things…great for individuals, great for small businesses, great for community and finding out about local specials and [...]
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Top Green Twitter Tweeters You Should Follow. (And, how to make Twitter Work for You)
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 26, 2009
Twitter: a free, powerful communications tool for Grassroots Green & Spiritual Organizations. “You, too, can make Twitter work for you!” My first few months on twitter, I spent my time making fun of it…”who needs another tech nerd geek web thing I don’t understand!?,” I pontificated. The cool kids agreed with me. But then [...]
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Waylon Lewis interviews Sister Helen Prejean, woman behind Dead Man Walking, at Naropa.
by Walk The Talk Show on Apr 20, 2009
I’m interviewing Sister Helen Prejean today over at Naropa University with Mito Media, for elephantjournal.com, Huffington Post, and Mallika Chopra’s Intent.com, where I’m starting a new column in the short-term. Sister Helen, a Catholic nun, is best-selling author of Dead Man Walking, on which the Oscar-winning movie was based (Susan Sarandon played Sister Helen). We’ll [...]
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elephant journal’s Winter 05/06 issue cover: Dharma Brat.
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 20, 2009
elephant journal’s Winter 05/06 issue. By Matt Menger and Robert Mann. Dharma Brat: Silver Leaf and Mixed Media on Canvas, By Matt Menger and Robert L. Mann, Los Angeles, California. Our Cover Matt Menger and Robert Mann, artists out of Los Angeles, have done the impossible: given ele a hip, happening cover, influenced equally by [...]
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elephant hits 2,222 followers on Twitter—and is Top 10 most-followed in Boulder.
by Waylon Lewis on Apr 1, 2009
Exciting news for little lean mean green elephant…if you’re a tech geek who knows what Tweetdeck is, we hardly understand this stuff, still. Follow us, we’ll follow back! Also, here’s our Facebook Page. And my personal one (message me if I don’t know you). And here’s our May 6 talk show on FB with John [...]
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elephantjournal.com redesign will feature far fewer ads.
by elephantjournal.com on Mar 24, 2009
Our redesign should go live this Saturday. It will be a bit cleaner—only two columns instead of three or four, as elephantjournal.com is now. It’ll have handier buttons to join our Facebook group, follow us on Twitter and subscribe, free, to our blog (RSS). But the most important change: it’ll feature only one supersize banner [...]
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elephantjournal.com traffic report. Biggest day in history yesterday.
by elephantjournal.com on Mar 18, 2009
Update: Yesterday, thanks to our Michelle Obama goes Local article, we once again beat our all-time (well, we’ve only been focusing on the site for 4.5 months!) traffic record. We’re verging on 70K unique visitors a month. … Yesterday [March 15] we had our biggest traffic day in history: a touch over 4K unique visitors [...]
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elephant journal founder Waylon Lewis featured on Planet Green.
by Waylon Lewis on Mar 16, 2009
Please leave a comment by way of thanks for Treehugger slash Planet Green’s feature on yours truly and our elephant journal! Given that we nearly went out of business in our three month transition from ecoprint to supergreeneco web—but have instead Phoenixed up from the ashes, thanks to the ready support of most of our yoga/eco/LOHAS-demographic advertising community—the above [...]
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Yogadork, new fave site, asks: “Are all Yoga Magazines doomed to extinction?” Even big, popular Yoga Journal?
by Waylon Lewis on Mar 16, 2009
“elephant journal evades the reaper” by going online? Boooooyahhh, we’re goin’ New Media in da shizzle! Of course, I’ve had to compose a real-life country song…”Oooh I’ve lost my offices, lost my staff, put my house on the market (though I may just start a Green club, instead), I’ve given up my car (biking’s cheaper, [...]
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Virayoga studio, chez Elena Brower, in New York City.
by elephantjournal.com on Mar 15, 2009
Elena Brower’s Virayoga studio in New York City. review via Leah Beltran Over the last two weeks I’ve had the opportunity to take a few classes at VIRAYOGA with Elena Brower (founder) and Zhenja Larosa in NYC, a cherished studio in the heart of SoHo offering Anusara Yoga™ to a vast number of teachers [...]
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Best Buddhist Blogs (?)
by Waylon Lewis on Feb 15, 2009
I just came upon this post on Tricycle, a leading Buddhist magazine, that lists their favorite Buddhist blogs. Clicking on their recommended Buddhist Blogs, there’s plenty of good content to be found, which is the important thing—that said none of ‘em are getting much if any traffic, most have no design sense, and most of ‘em [...]
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Think Big, GOOD: Talk Show Like You Give a Damn.
by Waylon Lewis on Jan 26, 2009
On December 31st, the last ecopaper issue of elephant journal sold off the last newstands around the US. A few weeks later, Plenty, the leading ‘green’ magazine, went kaput. And then there was one. One print mag that can take it into the endzone. Ben Goldhirsch’s GOOD. Of course, many magazines are great. But few [...]
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PHOTO SLIDESHOW: elephant journal’s Waylon Lewis interviews Dr. Andrew Weil @ Origins (with Pekoe Sip House) in Denver
by Rusty Ralston on Oct 9, 2008
He’s made the Big-TIME—twice. Coming up in a week…a new video of Dr. Andrew Weil’s conversation with elephant journal (the comparatively puny green/yoga/organics grassroots). Yesterday elephant had an encounter with our new friend, Dr. Andrew Weil. Yeah, He’s twice graced the cover of TIME Magazine, popularized the field of integrative medicine, created a mushroom skin [...]
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