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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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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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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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