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Turn Your World Upside Down with Urdvha Dhanurasana

This weekend I got out of town.  Not far, but far enough.  Far enough to have a good time and get a fresh perspective.When is the last time you got out of town? (Oh, maybe you're some very...

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Are you off the grid?

Girl, pull your kneecaps up!   Sometimes you just need a little wake up call during the day...you know,  a little something to wake you out of your walking dead, zombie- like trance.  Instead of...

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Muting the Negativity & Teaching Updates

Hello, all.I hope you are well.  It has been a "noisy" week in my life and I suspect many of you have experienced the same thing with the political season reaching its climax on Election Day.  I am...

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Simple Tricks to Help Children Who Are Overstimulated

My lovely daughter accosted me today while I was practicing.  She has a fiery personality with boundless energy and a quick mind.  I love her dearly, but sometimes her energy is not easily compatible...

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Up cycling yoga pants

So.... its basically been the long weekend of my dreams.  I've had lots of extra time to sleep, dream, eat, practice yoga, paint, create, research, read, practice yoga, play games with my kids, play...

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Play, Snow Angels, & Yoga

One of the best things about yoga is that, in a lot of ways, it is simply play.  It is frolicking, exploring, and engaging your body in a non threatening way and finding out what feels good to you.  It...

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Peace

My guru tells me:"The world is in turmoil because the minds of men are in turmoil."  If you want to help the world, help yourself...... care for yourself, feed your soul, nourish your spirit.    Find...

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In the Moment

When practicing Vrksasana (tree pose), or Lord Dancer, or Crow, or any other yoga pose that requires balance; if you are not in the moment, if you're mind strays away from what you're body is presently...

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New Year's Resolution

my new year's resolution is that i don't need a new year to make a fresh start. every morning the sun is risen again and a day dawns new and every morning i, too, can be resurrected, or perhaps just re...

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The Taoism of Strength & Flexibility in Your Asana Practice

We humans tend to understand earth in terms of duality -- like light/dark, male/female, winter/summer, but the symbol of yin/yang illustrates clearly how in the height of any duality , the seed of the...

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Process. Passion. Repeat.

Every single thing that we encounter in our daily lives was once nothing more than a thought.  As the old saying goes, "you were once just a glimmer in your mother's eye." The same holds true for the...

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Energizing Hatha Yoga with Tammie Returns: Saturdays in Spring!

Each day I notice the length of daylight increasing and I can't help but feel optimistic.  It is reassuring to see signs that spring is approaching, and, with it, the promise of growth. In March I will...

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Familiar Concept, New Perception

First, let me say this.  Thank goodness it is summer...and I work at a school and get to actually live for 3 months instead of merely managing life.  Yikes!  Truly, I don't know how people stay in the...

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Good Space (It Doesn't Always Have to be so Hard)

I have decided to revisit a yoga reference book of mine from several years ago, which is now in its second edition.  In Yoga Anatomy (2ndedition), Leslie Kaminoff offers this quote:“Another ancient...

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New Class Starts June 12th!

Join me for an exhilarating 8 week session of  "Energizing Hatha Yoga".  Summer is the time when light and growth are most abundant.  Take advantage of the season and let your physical being flourish...

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Things That Make Yogis Go Hhhmmmmm........ "Science Declares Exercise...

  I am currently reading a book named Spark! The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain. All of the comments on the back go on and on about how "groundbreaking" this work is, and while I'm...

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Houseplants & Your Practice

I've recently become interested in house plants.  I was reading up on Hindu goddesses and found out that Lakshmi, the goddess of abundance, only visits houses that are clean, well maintained, and lush...

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Reminders & Updates....

Dear friends,Namaste.Thank you for giving me an audience to share my observations and thoughts on yoga and life in the form of this blog.  Just a few reminders:My book is now available.  If you are so...

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Summer & Kids & Self Discovery

Shanti, Friends,I am honored and excited to be a part of several fun kids yoga events this summer.   I believe summer is a magical time for self exploration, especially during childhood.  Unstructured...

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Yoga Practice: Patience

If you are practicing yoga, you better get used to Practicing Patience. Inhale.  Patience.  Pause.  Patience.  Exhale.  Patience.Patience is slow......... and I know how you might feel about that...

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Yoga. For REAL people.

If you live in present day US, and you are not a skinny white woman doing intricate arm balances while modeling fashionable yoga wear, then you may have doubts as to whether yoga is for...

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Give Yourself Permission to Develop as Only You Can

I decided I needed a guru.... an anchor, a compass, a guide....to help me navigate my yoga journey a few years after completing my teacher training and becoming a mom.  The decision came to me suddenly...

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Five Morning Routine Lifestyle Changes That Have Changed My Life

Five Morning Routine Lifestyle Changes That Have Changed My Life (And can be done in 10-15 minutes while you get your coffee & shower)1.  Drink lemon water first thing upon waking in the morning....

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The Matrix, Grace, & Yoga

I like to think that we are all apart of the Matrix. Not the evil artificial intelligence matrix created by the machines to keep us humans enslaved (Thank you Keanu Reeves for being "the one").  I am...

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The Stories We Tell Ourselves....

My early memories are shrouded in a low hanging mist of uncertainty,  a fog that enveloped me for most of my young life.  I understood the world passively through impressions and language.  I perceived...

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