Picking up the Pieces: Learning to Love After Trust is Lost
Opening up our hearts can be one of the scariest things we can do. Making ourselves available and fully invested in the connection with someone we love and care for brings us profound purpose and at...
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The End of the Year of Endings
by Ali Valdez Are we ever ready to truly say goodbye? Are we ever truly ready for change not meted by our own hand? There is something about the death of a celebrity that jolts the general public into...
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Rebel with a Cause: The true teacher that resides within us all
By Ali Valdez This is not my first time writing about teachers, the quality of teaching and the sacred art that comes with enabling and empowering others through our words, example and interpretation...
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Space Age Bedfellows
Pluto & Moon: Drawing Towards & Drifting Apart by Ali Valdez Snow days and hail storms aside, spring is soon upon us. March 20th is a very special date as it marks the vernal equinox (the start...
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Labyrinthian
by guest writer, Ekta Mittal From the time I learned about labyrinths I have been fascinated by them. My dream was to visit the Chartres Cathedral in France so I could walk their labyrinth. It was on...
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Shaken, Not Deterred
Grrrrrr… The Anglicized Yoga world has got its hate on. It’s been hard seeing the slow devolution of social commentaries both catty and snide about the state of affairs in popularized yoga forms....
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Mercury Mayhem Meets the Real World
Go anywhere out for lunch with a yoga buddy and record your conversation, and that of the table next to yours. Now play them back and see if the two conversations sound like they are even happening on...
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The Guru Gap
In the wake of a succession of passing luminaries in the yoga world, there is a void that remains unfilled. Recently in a training course, I was asked who the next generation leaders in yoga are. This...
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Reconciling #simplegratitude with #metoo
by Ali Valdez “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” ― Viktor E. Frankl,...
View ArticleOn Anger, Resentment, and Yoga
by Tatiana Linardopoulou Last night, I got into a conversation about anger and resentments – I am not lacking in either. The other party stated that anger was a colossal waste of energy, that it served...
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