4
Jun
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Self-love
This week’s Yogi Assignment is as much for me as for you. I usually write about whatever life lesson I’m most present to. As a lifelong yoga practitioner I don’t believe in perfection in the material world, neither in my body, my mind, my actions nor my asana. It’s all a work in progress. My…
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28
May
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Awareness through Love, Light and Laundry
There is a fine line between judgmental thinking and healthy boundaries. That line can be both difficult to navigate and too blurry to see clearly. To operate in a world where everything is ok and you have no preference is simply unrealistic. It seems obvious to me that we all have personal preferences, but perhaps…
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20
May
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Surrender to God
When every door feels locked and every street is a dead end, where do you go? When you’re stuck with no viable path forward and all options look terrible, what do you do? Quit. Give up. Concede. Lose. Surrender. Quitting has often has a tinge of bitterness and competition gone awry. Giving up can leave…
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13
May
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Ahimsa 2.0
Ahimsa, the first of the moral and ethical principles outlined in the eight limbs of Patanjali, is most often translated as non-violence. There is perhaps no other of the tenets presented in traditional yoga philosophy that has influenced how contemporary yogis take their practice off the mat and into the world than ahimsa. At first…
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7
May
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Love
The glowing heart of the sun rises and sets each day and belongs to no one. The Earth is cut up into segments of private property and national boundaries but no one owns the deed to the whole planet, except maybe all of us collectively unless we just have it on loan from future generations….
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30
Apr
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Speak with Love
The world feels like it’s turned on it’s axis. Love and hate seem all mixed up. Peace and war appear to be tangled up. The last six weeks have been utterly heartbreaking for me. I feel like I failed colossally, like I messed it all up despite my intentions. I know it’s not true. Dana…
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23
Apr
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Listen
Learning to truly listen is a skill that applies the core teaching of yoga to daily life. If you learn how to translate the lesson of deep inner listening through a cultivated state of mindfulness it can really change the quality of your relationships. But first, as always in yoga, you have to start with…
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15
Apr
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: The Teacher-Student Relationship
Om Saha Naav[au]-Avatu | Saha Nau Bhunaktu | Saha Viiryam Karavaavahai | Tejasvi Naav[au]-Adhiitam-Astu Maa Vidvissaavahai | Om Shaantih Shaantih Shaantih || Meaning: 1: Om, May God Protect us Both (the Teacher and the Student) (during the journey of awakening our Knowledge), 2: May God Nourish us Both (with that spring of Knowledge which nourishes life when awakened), 3: May we Work Together with Energy and Vigour (cleansing ourselves with…
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9
Apr
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Love-in Meditations
A difficult place along the long and winding road of awakening is the realization of how remarkably far you have come and also just how far away you actually are from where you want to go. You may feel frustrated, angry, depressed and just generally overwhelmed. I know I have felt all that over the…
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2
Apr
2018
Yogi Assignments
Yogi Assignment: Yatnah, Effort
The ancient spiritual path is built on the notion of personal discipline. Patañjali defines practice as abhyasa and says that it includes an element of effort, which is called Yatnah in Sanskrit. Practice is not and should not be easy. It leads you to a place of peace, but that great prize of peace is…
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