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still in sirsasana: January 2015

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Friday, January 2, 2015. Sneeze. han-gang. christmas day. What would I give to cross the han once more. In a half empty bus on christmas day. Over december currents resisting freeze. Can I hear once more. The polite recorded voice. Calling out the bus stops. Until I memorize the route. Can I stand at the back door again. Swaying with the traffic flow. As my weight shifts through the small bones of my feet. Let me walk home one more time. Leaning backward as I walk downhill. To run past me. Coconut water ...

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still in sirsasana: YELLOW, BLACK, BROWN, AND BEAUTIFUL: Reflections on Race and Yoga

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Wednesday, May 27, 2015. YELLOW, BLACK, BROWN, AND BEAUTIFUL: Reflections on Race and Yoga. All of these feelings led me to create a 4-month sabbatical for myself in the fall of 2014 in Seoul, South Korea. My goals were to relearn my mother tongue, connect with my artist/activist/yoga peers in Korea, and spend time with my family to learn our history. Not until I had been living in Korea for several months this past fall did I realize the toll assimilation had taken. A student commented that his Southeas...

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still in sirsasana: It Is Time

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Saturday, May 4, 2013. When asked why it's necessary to have a yoga class just for women of color. It is time to open up what has too long been closed. Those back pages of the alternative weekly. Filled with lisitings of asian call girls. Release them from the sealed boxes of the classified ads. These groins we held hard. Knees squeezed together to protect us. From the men we were supposed to trust. It is time to open up what has too long been closed. Forced onto boats by traders or our own desperation.

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still in sirsasana: Crone Poem

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Friday, June 5, 2015. I’ve stopped bleeding and i can’t see. Standing in a rush hour train. I break into spontaneous sweats. A heat source to all my neighbors. Everything is dropping rapidly. As my muscles lose their earth element. I am loosening my hold on the physical. My memory is failing me. I find white hairs in my food. I burp snore and fart and queef. Like a wind instrument. Everything is looser and more vaporous. A mix of air and ether. Pitta fanned into vata. I embrace my ajumma status. Intermed...

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still in sirsasana: Got a Minute? Do a Pose! Week 4: Utkatasana, Fierce/Powerful Pose

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Wednesday, June 3, 2015. Week 4: Utkatasana, Fierce/Powerful Pose. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Iyengar Yoga Teacher, Community Builder, Activist, Music-maker, Poet. Iyengar Yoga with Hong Gwi-Seok. Badass Yoga Nun on Facebook. Rest in Power: Grace Lee Boggs, 1915-2015. Intermediate Junior III CIYT. Iyengar Yoga for All. Intensity with Equanimity, Precision with Compassion. Week 6: Utthita Trikonasa. Week 5: Utthita Hasta Pad. Week 4: Utkatasana, Fierc. Next American Revolution Food Cart, Detroit.

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still in sirsasana: April 2015

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Thursday, April 16, 2015. I send out tentative shoots. That are doomed to fail. Like the cherry tree we planted last spring. Mowed down by fall. I say it wrong. At least a decade behind every trend. Before youngsters half my age. I don’t tweet. Or whatever the fuck is the latest app. I am more than halfway. Through this fragile burst of a life. Not even middle aged. But hurtling headlong to elderhood. At an age when I should be securing my nest egg. At the top of my game. I save nothing and press restart.

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still in sirsasana: Got a Minute? Do a Pose! Week 5: Utthita Hasta Padasana, extended hands and feet

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Thursday, June 11, 2015. Week 5: Utthita Hasta Padasana, extended hands and feet. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Iyengar Yoga Teacher, Community Builder, Activist, Music-maker, Poet. Iyengar Yoga with Hong Gwi-Seok. Badass Yoga Nun on Facebook. Rest in Power: Grace Lee Boggs, 1915-2015. Intermediate Junior III CIYT. Iyengar Yoga for All. Intensity with Equanimity, Precision with Compassion. Week 6: Utthita Trikonasa. Week 5: Utthita Hasta Pad. Week 4: Utkatasana, Fierc. The main hall at RIMYI.

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[by alysse] | People with Panache

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GET OUT and ABOUT. Category Archives: [by alysse]. Interviews by Alysse; edits by both of us. Meet erin: healing community through yoga in detroit. My grandma asked me last night. She just had her final radiation treatment last week in a grueling series of surgeries and therapies over the last year and a half. Hallelujah she is completely back to the spitfire of a woman that I know and love very, very much. Her puns prove it. Stories like this are all around us. This week, we share how my friend Erin...

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interview | People with Panache

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GET OUT and ABOUT. Meet erin: healing community through yoga in detroit. My grandma asked me last night. She just had her final radiation treatment last week in a grueling series of surgeries and therapies over the last year and a half. Hallelujah she is completely back to the spitfire of a woman that I know and love very, very much. Her puns prove it. Stories like this are all around us. This week, we share how my friend Erin Shawgo helps empower women with modalities and tools to move through traum...