Over the past month and a half, I’ve been enrolled in an online course set to teach breathwork, meditation and neuroscience. Since the beginning of quarantine, I’ve been looking for some sort of continuing education course to deepen…
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*Inhale, pause, exhale* *Inhale, pause, exhale* *Inhale, pause, exhale* This is how I begin my practice on the mat. Well, this is how my teacher, Adriene, asks me to begin my practice on the mat. I take a few moments to pay attention to the…
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There is a space in the beginning of a yoga class that you leave open for what we call intention setting. Some teachers will begin class in a still posture and allow you to set that intention from the start. I tend to let my classes move around a bit…
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I’m not exactly sure when this article will release, or when you’ll be reading it, but on September 28th I’ll enter my third decade on this earth. In the spirit of self-improvement and the constant journey that is this life, I feel like this is as good.…
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I’ve recently been thinking about the things that I don’t know anything about. As you can imagine, it can be difficult to imagine the things that you can’t even imagine. It can be scary to consider that the things that you know are an incredibly…
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In 1982 Benjamin Hoff published a book called, “The Tao of Pooh” in which he explains why Winnie the Pooh is the hero of The Hundred Acre Woods and the greatest Taoist in the western literary canon. In ‘92, he followed it up with a…
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Imagine that you’re the coach at a boy’s football camp. The ages range from fourth through eighth grade and there’s about 250 of these kids sitting on the front lawn of your field house waiting for the first day of camp to begin. Well, they’re not…
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When I was around 15 years old, I got arrested. I was brand new to that particular city where I lived for a couple years during high school, and while I wasn't exactly a "goody-two-shoes" growing up, it wasn't necessarily my nature to "make trouble" either. I was pretty nerdy in a lot of ways, and…
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