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Refusing To Roboticize.

This morning I told Jasmijn that if I could trade places with any other animal, I’d be a sparrow. They fly up high and around our home night and day in long diving circles, shouting at each other. How unbound and wild and full of fun I imagine them to be.

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Coloring Sacred Art As A Spiritual Practice. {book preview}

By Ekabhumi Charles Ellik

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Free & Forgive Your Fears: Move Forward With Love & Light.

Things and people were removed from her life so she could find her source, her freedom, her true loves. She was scalped of all things familiar and close to her. These things were removed as if burned in that home while she watched and couldn’t do anything about it -- only watch. Watch as the ...

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When Chronic Pain Took My Yoga Away.

I have to learn to be present. When the pain hits, I realize that it will eventually subside and I can only sit with it. I also realize I am far from the only person enduring pain. W.S. Merwin, a poet who appeared in my favorite documentary The Buddha, even said about suffering: “It’s at once ...

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Dear Yoga Teacher: Please Touch Me.

I truly know that it takes time to properly adjust every student, and time is of the essence when we are trying to fit our practice into our busy days, but it is far more important that we get the corrections.

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How To Come Home Through Opening Your Heart.

I woke up one day and realized that my heart was closed. There were blocks and stops and places where I just couldn’t allow the love to flow out of me. As I looked into my lover’s eyes, instead of going deeper and swimming in him, I felt the shallow strokes in water barely worth wading. How ...

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Dancing In The Bamboo Forest. {book preview}

"Rumor spread that the train crew had put out a fire in the engine and then, without any explanation, the engine detached and chugged back down the hill leaving us stranded."

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Ananda: Count Your Bliss-Ings, Not Your Troubles.

Whether we search the Oxford English Dictionary or the Vedas and the Dictionary for Spoken Sanskrit, Ananda, the Sanskrit word for Bliss, wholly resonates the thought-emotion from the eternal to the local.

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How Do You Approach The Poses You Hate?

Did I ever tell you I hate Anjaneyasana? I used to actually make an audible sigh whenever it was called out in class, but now I’ve learned to accept that it’s part of the practice, therefore it’s a part of my life. I can suffer or I can surrender.

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Getting Comfortable In Your Sagging Skin.

I used to have a fantasy that aging stopped at the age you started practicing asana. I think this idea came from looking at Shiva Rea and Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa; both of them are radiant, and really, when you look at them they’re kind of ageless, aren’t they? I could never really figure out just ...

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