yoga
November 22, 2009
- Years ago, when my ideal situation fell apart, I had a nervous break down. My 'nervous system' literally broke down. My entire body ceased to function properly, and all I could move were my eyes and mouth. It scared me. It was the time that I turned my life around, which has taken me a decade to sort out. I stepped out of my failed situation and started building from ground zero ~ The ...
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November 18, 2009
- My memoir's subtitle is A Woman's Journey to Peace With Scoliosis, Her Mother and Her Polish Heritage. Inner peace is my personal daily practice. Peace is that hummingly alive place where I don't fight. I don't do mental violence to myself for looking crooked in my clothes, I don't do emotional violence to my mother for not being a feminist like me, and I don't do verbal violence to myself ...
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October 9, 2009
- I recently attended a Yoga retreat and took two classes from Rodney and Colleen Yee, one focusing on balance and the other ended with a quote by Picasso on the benefit of reserves. Well, I can read a balance sheet like the best of them, find the elegant columns that if managed well (at least for a non-profit) balance each other out. I have espoused the benefit of having reserves, a rainy day ...
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September 4, 2009
- Some spam is tasty. Possibly because I write on the paranormal, I received an unsolicited morsel this morning from online bookseller AbeBooks alerting me to their new “Weird Book Room.” The message showcased cover thumbnails of ten representative titles. My favorites: “The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories;” “Outhouses by Famous Architects;” “Old Tractors and the Men Who Love ...
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August 20, 2009
- What makes a difference? Watching Beyond the Gates, a film about the genocide in Rwanda that took place in 1994 with a group of Anglicans last night, I heard one of the lead characters, Joe, a teacher, tell a BBC reporter that he went to Africa “to make a difference.” He grew up privileged—with “everything.” Teaching in Rwanda was his way of “giving back.” Each day, he ...
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August 4, 2009
- Time for a breather folks. Seriously. No Obama (other than to wish him a happy birthday - see, I'm not completely callous). No healthcare (though I've got tons of new things to say, I'll give it another day's rest). Today, we discuss Wii. I was given this wonderful little video game system for my birthday, not because I'm a big gamer, but to encourage me to exercise. The package we bought ...
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July 14, 2009
- Ananda also teaches free monthly yoga classes from March to December in Malcolm X - Meridian Hill Park in Washington, DC. Visit http://yoga.meetup.com/584 to read the schedule.
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July 14, 2009
- Mami Wata, circa 1987 by Zoumana Sane (dates unknown, Senegal)Photo Credit: Don Cole Today I reflected on how I launched my annual summer museum adventures with a visit to the National Museum of African Art. The goal of my trip was to soak up the beauty and splendor of the Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and the African Atlantic World exhibit. ...
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June 17, 2009
May 5, 2009
- Smelling like wet grass from the soccer field, Booker climbed on my lap as I sat in easy sitting pose on my black Manduka yoga mat. I realized that for santosha, contentment, in my practice, I needed to give into the pure joy of the moment. So, the wiggly woo wiggled in my lap for a moment and then sat as I called upon Archangel Uriel to come to my practice and guide me through the warrior ...
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