Are You Too Busy To Relax?

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September 20, 2011

With the change of season from summer to fall I know many of us are feeling overloaded and stressed. When we get busy we tend to let go of really important things like exercise, breathing, and doing good things for ourselves. I know, because I have been struggling with this very thing and knew I [...]

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Santosha

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September 15, 2011

Santosha. I love the way this word sounds and feels as it rolls off my tongue. It could be an exotic food, a tropical getaway, or a really excellent cocktail (one that is pink with an umbrella), but it is none of those things. Santosha is part of the eight limbs of yoga and is [...]

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Downward Dog, Upward Fog

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September 6, 2011

There were a few weeks of summer left and that meant one thing for me: time to get in at least one chick-lit novel while lounging in a beach chair and sipping a cool, refreshing drink. I want to go on the record to say that I don’t take the term chick-lit as derogatory; there [...]

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When a musical artist creates songs that have become Daily Downward Dog (DDD) yoga theme songs three times, then, my fellow yogis, the time has come to bestow the honor of being The DDD’s Featured Yoga Playlist Artist. This honor goes to none other than the incomparable Lenny Kravitz. Lenny’s musical genius has inspired my yoga [...]

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Sanskrit 101

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I love when a good discussion gets going from one of my blog posts, and that happened back in June when I posed “The Battle of the Languages: Sanskrit versus English.” If you didn’t read the post or the excellent comments, I explained that my style is to teach yoga, utilizing the English names for [...]

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Happy Birthday, Daily Downward Dog

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Over the weekend the Daily Downward Dog (DDD) celebrated its one-year birthday! Like a proud mother, I’m feeling a little nostalgic, and I just can’t believe my little yogini baby is already one year old. I’m also getting the strong urge to dig my hands and face into a big ol’ birthday cake with a [...]

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A Lovely (Yoga) Day

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Don’t you just love when you hear a song and it instantly makes you happy (and maybe even a little high)? You hear it on the radio, groove into a little happy dance, and the smile starts to spread across your face. When a song has a title like “Lovely Day,” you know it has [...]

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Getting to Know You

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This kind of cool thing keeps happening to me. It seems that no matter where I go or what I do (e.g., a Kiss concert, practicing yoga outdoors, or visiting the Wienermobile), I am filled with little nuggets of yoga inspiration. It happened again while sitting in a dark theater watching a live performance of [...]

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Yoga Crack

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Sometimes a product testimonial can get me at hello, and that was the case when I read the following testimonial for Indu Lotion: “LOVE LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE your lotion. I’m running low though and my students are totally hooked. Nectar of the Moon is the crack of yoga. It is Yoga Crack. Please send another shipment ASAP [...]

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Finding Balance, Even on the Wienermobile

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I get a ton of spam, so, last week, as I was scanning through my e-mail inbox to weed out the important messages, my eyes fell upon the following subject line: Oscar Mayer Wienermobile in Stow/Canton/Akron— I was just about to hit the delete button when my eyes were drawn to the remainder of the [...]

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