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A Formula for Resilience
A Formula for Resilience
Dear Friends,
Over the last week we have heard some extremely discouraging newsabout our irreplaceable planet. We learned that it would “require unprecedented changes” (40-50% reduction in emissions by 2030 and complete carbon neutrality by 2050) in order to prevent catastrophic climate change weather events. These events will affect every last one of us, but first and foremost those already…
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Mindful Eating, It's about Love
Mindful Eating, It’s about Love
Dear Friends,
I wrote my first blog post about mindful eating in 2008. Since then I’ve written several more posts and an entire book (Things I Did When I Was Hangry: Navigating a Peaceful Relationship with Food) about mindful eating. Eating is not just something I love to do, but something about which, clearly, I am conflicted.
I ate vegetarian style for more than 25 years, vegan for two, and…
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Leaving No One Behind
Leaving No One Behind
Dear Friends,
While doing a day hike along the Appalachian Trail, I crossed paths with a young man and young woman, both looking very health, strong, and able bodied. They had walked nearly 1000 miles with more than another 1000 miles to go. They were confident that they would reach Maine by the fall. While impressive, I didn’t think twice about their health and strength because I (and most of my…
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How to (Block, Build,) Be.
How to (Block, Build,) Be.
by Kristin Barker at One Earth Sangha
I like to stay up with the news, for the most part. But, sometimes I get overwhelmed. Recently, several young adults told me that they don’t plan to have kids because the world is such a mess. Millions of refugees are fleeing violence and instability, there is an increase in the polarization of political views, wars happening all over the globe, not to…
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Guest Blog by Alison Gray: Saying Good-bye and Saying Hello
Guest Blog by Alison Gray: Saying Good-bye and Saying Hello
After my friend Leigh lost her mother, she said that sorrow hit her at strange moments. My own Mom died this year on the Sunday before Mother’s Day. I drove down to N.C. to see her on the preceding Thursday. I entered the medical unit of her retirement home and saw a nurse standing at her station with a very small, gaunt, gray-haired woman lying on a rolling bed next to her in the hallway. I was…
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Clearing the Weeds of Racism, Sexism, Homophobia, Transphobia, Ableism, and Economic Injustice
Clearing the Weeds of Racism, Sexism, Homophobia, Transphobia, Ableism, and Economic Injustice
Dear Friends,
If you follow my writing, you may have noticed that I haven’t been blogging as much lately. I’ve invited guest bloggers, pulled from my archives, and written lighter pieces, like the one about the yoga studio’s 15-year anniversary. It’s not a matter of having less time, in fact, these days I have more time to write.
What’s been going on for me is a struggle to find my voice in what…
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Guest blog by Michelle Johnson-Weider: Mindfulness and the Imposter Syndrome
Guest blog by Michelle Johnson-Weider: Mindfulness and the Imposter Syndrome
At the beginning of this year, I made an appointment with a counselor to help me deal with my fear of heights. This had affected most of my life, but had never been debilitating before. However, after a traumatic nighttime winter drive a couple years ago, it expanded into panic attacks when driving on hills and over bridges, an untenable situation given how much I drive just to get to and from…
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What's Waiting in You to Be Born?
What’s Waiting in You to Be Born?
Dear Friends,
Sydnea Lewis, Circle Yoga’s Marketing and Design Manager
This week I am very happy to be celebrating the 15th anniversary of Circle Yoga Cooperative (CYC) in Washington DC. The very first day of teaching in the current building was March 17, 2003. Of course, it wasn’t yet the studio we all know and love. That day, I offered one Budding Yogis kids class in the space which we now…
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Guest Blog by Kaira Jewel Lingo: Knowing what we are doing: Mindfulness and Racial Awareness
Guest Blog by Kaira Jewel Lingo: Knowing what we are doing: Mindfulness and Racial Awareness
photo by Thomas Kierok
I recently heard from a college friend who I hadn’t been in touch with for over 15 years. In the middle of the night, up because of insomnia, she was reflecting on something I’d said to her and decided to look me up online. She Googled me and contacted me through my website. When we talked soon after this, she told me how important my explanation of mindfulness was for her…
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Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Thoughts on Skillful Means
“So, if you’re seeking to develop a just society, they say, the important thing is to get there, and the means are really unimportant; any means will do so long as they get you there? they may be violent, they may be untruthful means; they may even be unjust means to a just end. There have been those who have argued this throughout history. But we will never have peace in the world until men…
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Guest Blog by Sara Mahon: "To My Good Friend, Change"
Guest Blog by Sara Mahon: “To My Good Friend, Change”
“Everything changes. Our body changes. Our ideas change and so do our moods, or the moods of the people we are close to. Our love and our friendships change. Our finances and our life plans change. The political situation changes. Fashion and the weather change. Even change itself changes.” -Piero Ferrucci, The Power of Kindness (p. 200)
I find change to be a rather hard thing to face.…
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What to do if someone is severing your limbs with a two-handed saw
What to do if someone is severing your limbs with a two-handed saw
Artwork: Sky Goer by Mayumi Oda
Dear Friends,
I have acted out of anger many times in my life. I’m embarrassed to admit that as a young girl, anger caused me to spray cleaning fluid at my sister, and as a young mother anger had me throwing an empty plate at my husband while cleaning up after a big dinner. I’m guessing everyone reading this has had angry moments when you felt taken over by your…
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I am Not a Cow! (or How to Stop Chewing Your Cud)
I am Not a Cow! (or How to Stop Chewing Your Cud)
Dear Friends,
One of my most embarrassing childhood moments happened during my first year in middle school. I was called out for chewing gum in class, and, after spitting out my wad, made to read a poem in front of my first period class. And no, not a poem of my choice, but a derogatory poem about how I looked like a cow chewing its cud: “The gum-chewing girl and the cud-chewing cow/Seem…
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Instructions for Paddleboard Yoga and Standing Up to Injustice
Instructions for Paddleboard Yoga and Standing Up to Injustice
The Hard Questions
How should I be contributing to the world?
I ask myself this question on a daily, sometimes hourly basis. Am I doing the right things? Am I doing enough?
As the world seems to be getting more divisive and scary, I consider these questions more and more. I write and talk about these questions constantly – in my blog, in my book, in mindfulness classes, and in…
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What Gets You Out of Bed Every Morning?
What Gets You Out of Bed Every Morning?
Dear Friends,
A few days ago, I was talking to my young adult son and heard myself telling him the age-old advice that he needed a reason to get out of bed every morning. You may have run into these words of wisdom in your own life, from your parents or friends, or read it in a meme on Instagram or Facebook. They seem like a truism.
One recent morning, I lay in my very comfy bed and wondered what…
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Taking the Elevator or It's OK to be Number Two
Taking the Elevator or It’s OK to be Number Two
Dear Friends,
My therapist is on the third floor of a building with four floors and an elevator. Since I started seeing her about a year ago, I have always taken the stairs to her office. A few weeks ago, I was diagnosed with a metatarsal injury that requires me to minimize time on my feet and wear a walking boot for several weeks. It’s a heavy contraption, so walking up three flights of stairs…
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Boddhisattva Self-Care
(image from Ted.com)
I woke up one day last week feeling sick. I got up anyway, enjoyed my morning routine of tea with my husband, and walked the dogs. But as the morning advanced, I found myself back in my bed. I was scheduled to teach that evening, and in order to do that I would need to bury my headache and body aches under a thick layer of medication. Or, I could find a way out of…
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