posted by Charlotte Bell on May 15, 2012 |
Mindful Living: Being Present in Your Daily Life Mindfulness has become a buzzword in the yoga world. I read a lot about mindful living, mindfulness practice. In fact I’ve practiced mindfulness over the past 26 years. Sometimes it’s been a challenge to make time in my schedule to do formal practice, although in recently years I’ve committed to getting up early to fit in at least 30 minutes of sitting
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posted by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg on May 14, 2012 |
Half-Moon Alone in the bedroom or at the back of the large yoga class, against the wall or balanced alone in the shaking steadiness of this phase of the moon, I reach past the compressed sadnesses of one broken story or another, my arms, my legs spanning height and width, a new dream following the shining heart, lifted and leading. Past the night of staccato sleep, past the twisted arcs
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posted by Charlotte Bell on May 9, 2012 |
Anjaneyasana: Lunge for the Sun As a child, Anjaneya was a tad over-confident. Considering his origins, this is hardly unexpected. Born to Anjana (a supernatural woman) and Kesari (king of the monkeys), he had magical powers and royalty in his genetic inheritance. On top of all that, he was godson to the wind god, Vayu, and was considered to be a reincarnation of Lord Shiva. So when he gazed upward
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posted by Charlotte Bell on May 7, 2012 |
Spay & Neuter on the Go Even if you don’t qualify for a free fix, anyone can get a four-legged fixed with a low-cost voucher, at the NMHPU’s clinic in Orem, Utah. If you prefer not to travel, you may want to check out the schedule for NMHPU’s Big Fix, a mobile spay and neuter clinic that provides low-cost services in different locations. Every Monday through Wednesday, the Big Fix
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posted by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg on May 2, 2012 |
On Retreat: Heading to the Woods Once every year, I go to the woods, to a small Catholic retreat center in northeast Kansas, which may not seem like the likely place you would find a Jewish girl from New York and New Jersey, but it is the perfect place. I arrive on a Thursday at Shantivanam: Forest of Peace where, after greeting the caretakers of this center, I head out
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posted by Anna Guest-Jelley on May 1, 2012 |
Slow Yoga Practice I’ve been getting into a slower yoga practice lately. I’m talking tortoise of the tortoise-and-the-hare fame. Since I’m not actually in a race, though, I’m not sure my story will turn out quite as cutely as the same children’s tale. (But I’m mostly okay with that.) Life in Slow Motion Ever since my dad passed away, I’ve just been taking everything slowly. Now don’t get me wrong,
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posted by Charlotte Bell on April 30, 2012 |
The Yoga Gossip Machine: What Do You Do When Another Teacher Disses You Behind Your Back? When students ask my opinion about another teacher in town, I’m deliberately vague. First, with the plethora of teachers (100 or more) being trained annually in various local trainings, I no longer know 99 percent of the teachers in town. Second, even if I do know the teacher about whom they’re inquiring, I don’t
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posted by Charlotte Bell on April 25, 2012 |
No More Homeless Pets: Three Easy Ways to Adopt a Furry Companion Each quarter Hugger Mugger Yoga Products chooses a non-profit organization to support with a percentage of our sales. Through June, we are supporting No More Homeless Pets of Utah, an organization that aims to end euthanasia of healthy animals in shelters. It’s kitten and puppy season. Right now. Every spring, animal shelters take in bundles of furry babies—feline
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posted by Charlotte Bell on April 23, 2012 |
Cultivating Appreciation – Knowing You Have No Toothache About three weeks ago some nasty bacteria set up camp around my lower right wisdom tooth. The sensation was one I’d never felt before. Swollen gum tissue had displaced the tooth, so much so that the only teeth that articulated in my entire mouth were the infected one and the upper one opposite it. And when those two teeth came together, shock
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posted by Charlotte Bell on April 18, 2012 |
A few years ago I was invited to guest teach Yoga Nidra to a group of teacher trainees at a local studio. As is my habit, I arrived 15 minutes before the scheduled class time. When I arrived, the studio’s weekly free introductory class was still in progress and would end just before my class was to start—or so I thought. In actuality the teacher continued the class for another
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