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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Living in The Places that Scare You
For the record, I love the Guatemalan culture. I live here. I adore traveling around this breathtakingly beautiful country. It…
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What are your Special Needs?
“All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I’m not meant to call them stupid, even though this…
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hopeless happiness
You can give up hope without giving up. The word and the concept of hope is pervasive in our society.…
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all you need is metta
If there is a god I thank god for this breathing in and out for this heart pumping relentless never…
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Mindfulness in the Middle School Classroom
At the beginning of my first year of teaching, I hung a sign on the wall of my bilingual third-grade…
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the yoga schmoga diet
“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution…
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Stop the Palinsanity.
“All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that…
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yoga is my salvation.
[Published on Elephant Journal on January 4, 2011.] Sometimes it’s easy to forget. I wasn’t always this happy. I still…
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achieve joy through chocolate
December 28 – Achieve. What’s the thing you most want to achieve next year? How do you imagine you’ll feel…
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