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Mysore Memories: A Klesha Klusterf*ck
I could tell you what you already know: You’ve seen the social media-filtered world of magical mysore in pics of post-practice bliss and fresh-from-the-slashed-coconut sips, the obligatory shot outside...
View ArticleYoga with Baby Honey Badgers
“Goat yoga has spread across the nation, from Oregon to Virginia. Doga, or dog yoga, has been around for several years. Even kitten yoga is not unique to Washington; people in Tennessee and Colorado...
View ArticleCoo Coo for Cocoa Puffs Asana
We live in a world where a scan of headlines (in the New York Times, no less) — UFO’s! Russian Probes! Omarosa! Fires! Hurricanes! Pharmaceutical murders — makes me ask, like my daughter about our Elf...
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New Yoga Teacher Vocabulary List: Yummy Manifestations of Nonsensical Abundance
YUMMY! Manifest/Radiance/Abundance/Vibrance: these words may as well be one as they are interchangeably void. Indeed, their meaning and power is in their lack of meaning which, when wielded properly...
View ArticlePractice Diaries: Seven Minutes in Heaven
Llama, llama, red pajama– what’s with all this ashtanga drama? So here I am. On my mat. Home alone. But no matter where I go there’s this bad neighborhood I call the internet, or maybe I’m the bad...
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Practice Diaries: Practice Sucked, Doing It Wrong, Birthing Unicorns and the...
Today my practice sucked. Most days — a lot of days — I get on my mat and I want to make love to the world and watch it give birth to a trillion butterfly rainbow unicorn kittens. Not today. Today...
View ArticlePractice Diaries: Facebook-asana
It’s been a super shitty week (don’t tell the girl I am on Instagram as she is too busy dancing around in her room and skiing and stuff to notice). Last week I deactivated my Facebook account for...
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Alternatives To Resting Yoga Bitch Face*
You Better Not Be Taking My Favorite Spot In The Room Face Really, I’m Not Attached Or Anything But That Is My F*cking Spot Face Shit There’s A F#cking Sub Face No One Here Needs To See Your Vision...
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Ashtanga Yoga Confluence Mysore Day One: Blinded By The Light
“We’re gonna have to do a pat down; would you like a private screening room?” This, from the surly TSA agent in Salt Lake City pointing to an image of my body from the scanning machine. I see– My...
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Keep Your Eyebrows, Asses and Asanas
“Don’t throw any of yourself away. Don’t worry about a grand scheme or unified vision for your work. Don’t worry about unity–what unifies your work is the fact that you made it. One day you’ll look...
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Life Is Not An Adhesion Contract
Life is not an adhesion contract. I screwed this one up, but it still works! I used a fancy legal word but you know adhesion contracts because you’ve signed them: think of your Facebook terms of...
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Alo-Cody-Kino-Dana (ACK(d)!), The Instastory Heard ‘Round The World, A Hot...
Don’t sign your yoga butt away in that contract. Let’s talk first. It isn’t every day my legal and yoga lives collide but lately it’s every damn day, so allow me to stop my rubbernecking the...
View ArticleThe Myth of Being “Stuck” On a Posture
Maybe that’s a bit much, but in truth I am beginning to think it’s impossible to be stuck on a posture, at least physically. Before those of you grimacing in marichyasana D or flailing in primary...
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(Not So) #Shittygymnastics: What I learned from a Gymnastics Coach
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a grown woman at a children’s gymnastics center must be in want of a job (or a kid to pick up). Then there’s me. “You’re not here for an interview?” asks the...
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Ashtanga Third Series Versus IVF: How Forced Time Off Taught Me As Much As My...
“You need to go as far as you need to go. From my experience, you want to continue until such time as you fall over – either literally or metaphorically too. Until you hit something that shows you...
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Compare me to Kino: My Top Takeaways from the Ashtanga Yoga Confluence
“Asana is pranayama for restless people.” ~ Richard Freeman. Hey, am I that obvious? Phenomenal Women: For me, the @ayc_confluence was all about the women. Dylan signed me up because of big names he...
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One Led Primary, Many Voices…. Like Kino, David, Eddie and Uh, Me?
“Are you still on to help? Because in 30 more minutes….I need dandasana/paschimattanasana beginning with Sapta and ending with down dog.” I’m stare at my phone in one hand and my glass of red wine in...
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Practice, Not Pretty: Everyday Means It’s Not All Costa Rica Handstands With...
I’m taking Mindfulness 101– Again. Our teacher says this is a lifelong practice. It’s not in the clouds; it’s here. You practice exercising volition over your attention, so the stories in your head...
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So You Wanna Put Your Leg Behind Your Head: Seven Thoughts (Update)
So you wanna put your leg behind your head….. Congratulations! You’re weird! Here’s your weird card, though you don’t need it. We’ll recognize each other in the Mysore room when both of us have a leg...
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Throwback Thursday: Ashtanga Yoga Confluence Day Two– The Newbie Is Me
Sometimes in life you gain or suffer something just by luck or misfortune to be in the right or wrong position at the right or wrong time. I think of taking the PSATs in school, sitting alphabetically...
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