Blog · Notes from the lake
Writings on Yoga, Life, and the Sacred Mayan Calendar
By Mixa Margaret Fajkus
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Ways to hurt and to forgive
Today is 3 Ajmaq, the day of self-forgiveness, self-acceptance and inner peace. A look at how I hurt, how I hide, and what I’m setting down.
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Aligning What we Preach with What we Teach
I am a teacher of kindness, breathing, and awareness. Yoga and meditation (which are one and the same) have given my…
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Smiling Meditation & Homemade Toothpaste
Last week, the planets aligned, and a long-awaited dream came true: I learned how to make natural toothpaste. I had…
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Natural Remedies for Bad Belly.
Living in Guatemala, I’ve come to learn a fair amount about the human digestive system over the years. Effective cleaning…
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Purification Practice Mantras
One of the first formal meditation techniques I learned, at an Ananda Yoga center in Palo Alto in the autumn…
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The Forest Cure
Why I’m Anti Antidepressants Many years ago, I sat on the couch of a stern psychiatrist who informed me that…
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8 Simple Heart Opening Tips
Anahata chakra, the heart center, is the fourth energy point, located at the center of the seven main chakras in yogic…
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Empowering Indigenous Women in North America
I recently reread a book called The Round House by best-selling Lakota novelist, Louise Erdrich. The narrator and main character,…
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On Turning 37
I was born roughly 1,924 weeks ago. That number is only slightly more arbitrary than the corresponding number of years:…
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What to do with all this outrage?
This level of outrage is unsustainable. Perhaps like you, I am feeling utterly outraged far too often these days. According…
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