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True North Yogini: And So It Ends
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Friday, December 13, 2013. And So It Ends. The end of the lane (Photo credit: Wikipedia. In just a few weeks, this blog will be five years old. It has been an amazing five years, during which my life has gone through huge changes. I have chronicled them here. And now I'm done. So I'm letting it go. If necessity is the mother of invention, who is the mother of reinvention? I pondered that as I considered why these all-too-frequent reinventions felt so good for awhile but always brought me back to the same...
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True North Yogini: February 2013
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013. After the Ecstasy, the Suckiness #365Yoga. English: Masala Chai, Masala Tea, Spice Tea (Photo credit: Wikipedia. Maybe you've seen it happen. Maybe you're even part of it. I sure am. After many years of practicing yoga and occasional t-shirt buying, I have come around to thinking that life is good. And for the most part, it is. Except when it isn't. The wallowing part wins sometimes. After all, who wants to leave a good party? There is a book by Jack Kornfield. Maybe But there...
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True North Yogini: Insanity kicked my asana
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Monday, October 28, 2013. Insanity kicked my asana. Four weeks ago I started the Insanity. Workouts. During those four weeks I never missed a workout, and followed the six-day-a-week workout calendar exactly. I'll be taking my measurements next week, at the end of "recovery week" (also known as "the week in which the daily workout makes my thighs long for the good old cardio recovery days. But I am starting to notice the changes in my body. Insanity pushed my asana practice up a notch. Is an excellent co...
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True North Yogini: July 2013
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Monday, July 29, 2013. False Summits and Forward Bends #365Yoga. The view from one of Noonmark's false summits. Some of our favorite mountains in the Adirondacks High Peaks region, like Baxter, Rooster Comb. For the false summits of our forward bends, we can thank musculotendinous sensory receptors called Golgi tendon organs. GTOs) Through their reflexive actions, the GTOs help to regulate muscle stiffness. Low-force, long-duration static stretching, felt in the hamstrings during Paschimottanasana. The t...
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True North Yogini: March 2013
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013. Too tired to say I can't #365Yoga. My long-time yoga teacher, Tracey Ulshafer of One Yoga and Wellness Center. In East Windsor, New Jersey, often told us that breakthroughs in her yoga practice happened when she was too tired to tell herself she couldn't. After having plenty of my own exhaustion-inspired breakthroughs, I've taken that to heart and shared it. My first lift-off into Bakasana. I've been exhausted for months thanks to my uncooperative ear. Then I took advantage of ...
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True North Yogini: October 2012
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012. Life had a routine. Then homeschooling happened and all the established routines went out the window. Days don't have the same rhythm, which is okay. I'm struggling with creating new routines, and wondering if I want to. Days when I have yoga classes to teach have a schedule. Days off have been unfolding in different ways. Some days we have things to do, some days we just hang out and play. Tuesday, October 2, 2012. Happy Dead Baby Bug. Tristan and I practice yoga every morning...
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True North Yogini: August 2013
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Tuesday, August 6, 2013. All That Falls Shall Rise Again. English: After the harvest (Photo credit: Wikipedia. While preparing for the yoga studio's monthly New Moon Circle, I had the opportunity to dig deeper into the idea of the first harvest and started to see how I harvest things in my own life. There is a cycle to manifesting. I have an idea, I cultivate that idea, it grows, then it comes into fullness. I create something wonderful and enjoy the abundance it provides. Except when it doesn't. You can...
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True North Yogini: December 2012
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Friday, December 21, 2012. On the Winter Solstice 2012. In the dark waiting womb. There is a quiet rhythm,. The sound of intention unmanifest. It will become with a wail. To call the first tendril of pink. From beyond the horizon,. A feathered minstrel lifts its head. And trills its morning anthem. Do not sit silent in the growing darkness. The universe was not born in a flash but a bang,. The resonance of the heart of the Divine,. Speaking its name into all of creation. Invite the sun with song,. This i...
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True North Yogini: June 2013
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013. Yoga to Walk on the Earth #365Yoga. June got lost in a whirlwind of activity. Actually, I just lied to you. June got lost, but the whirlwind was in my mind so there was no visible activity to speak of. I spent four days at the beginning of June with Laura Cornell. At her Overflowing Workshops retreat in northern New Jersey. It was fantastic and I enjoyed both the learning and the connections. But it started the whirlwind. Yoga to walk on the earth. Yoga to breathe the air. A Few o...