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Looking for Inner Peace?
Inner peaceThe quest of meditators everywhere, throughout time, pretty much boils down to inner peace. This is the holy grail that people all over the world seek as they sit on their cushions and close...
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Who Does Not Love a Foot Massage?
Who Does Not Love a Foot Massage?We all do- except for very ticklish people. And even they might like it if they gave it to themselves.Why does it feel so good?Foot massage feels fantastic. No doubt...
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Why does yoga work?
Why does yoga work? What exactly does it do? As I sit down to write this brief article, I am compelled to mix my experience with the data and try to find some middle ground. Studies do not corroborate...
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Adventures in Making a Yoga Video
Adventures in Making a Yoga VideoOne thing I love about yoga is that there is always more to learn about it. I always wanted to make a yoga video and post it on YouTube- and now I have! It was not as...
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Paddling- Taking the Lessons Off the Mat
Paddling- Taking the Lessons Off the MatI paddled this weekend with a group in south Georgia. We canoed and kayaked about twenty miles over the course of two days. We had lots of rain the day before...
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Yoga and Meditation for Capitalists
Marketing Yoga and Meditation to a Capitalist CultureTo be so good for you, yoga and meditation sure do turn people off. Meditating and doing yoga actually make your DNA express its more positive...
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Building community builds you
I got an invitation and went last night to an underground music venue that is in an old grocery store/ dude's living room. It is called Grocery on Home. There were three performances, the last of...
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When to light a candle
The events of the past few days have left me wondering about our world. Three young women held hostage and tortured for ten years in a basement- in Cleveland, Ohio? By a bus driver? This world seems...
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New Growth
Making a PathLife seems to have a destination, but sometimes the path is unclear. That perfect relationship, that perfect job, that harmony and ease are over there, always over there, just out of...
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Opposite Day
I can gnaw on a thought for a long time. Like some old pit bull, I can lie around worrying some bone I have to pick with someone for a long time. I can spend a lot of my life being right. The...
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Starting a Peace
Alright. I guess I may as well get comfortable with the fact that I am turning into an activist. Meditation does have this one side effect that could be considered negative. It brings the world into...
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Teaching mandala meditation
I had several students today come take my mandala meditation class. We made mandalas and meditated on them. It was beautiful to see how it came out. This picture is of my mandala. It shows the...
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Mandala Project Day 2
I went to the coffee shop and worked on my mandala today. I forgot to bring in the rest of the pens, but I had a nice blue pen. I used that to color in the next layer.There were two ladies- one...
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Sowing
I am dog sitting in a little suburb of Atlanta this week. Ranch houses everywhere. Nice little brick ranches with nice yards. One little house is just a little different. Front yard is the same as...
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It has been a long time since my last post to this blog. Sorry. Life gets wild from time to time. It is 2014 and time for a new postI wrote my resolutions last year on a piece of card stock and...
View ArticleMeditation and Yoga Chart for Inspiration
It has been a while since I last posted. In that time, I studied meditation techniques and learned a good bit just by reading the recommended books and by doing the homework. The surprising thing was...
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This day had some nice parts to it. I talked before about my chart with the Y for yoga and the M for meditation. I have been working diligently to get those letters most days. I spend fifteen...
View ArticleI may not be getting this
I was headed to teach my little ESL class a few weeks ago at the Buddhist Meditation Center. I was driving in five o'clock traffic and I was running late. Traffic in Atlanta can be truly terrible....
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An Engineer Meditates
My meditation group meets weekly and brings together all sorts of varied characters. One of these characters is my pal, Karl Rosenblum. He is a meditator and an engineer. He blogs about it at...
View ArticleAmerica and Yoga
I have been having lots of conversations with random people I meet about yoga. When I tell someone I am certified at the basic level and I am sort of structuring my life around studying yoga at the...
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