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  • Asana, Pranayama, and Yoga Practice | Community and Family | Meditation

    Mini Lessons

    ByElizabeth September 1, 2022September 1, 2022

    Friends and acquaintances ask me whether I am teaching yoga. My answer is that I do it when asked. Last week, I offered a “release” practice for a friend who is still having hot flashes many years after their final menstrual cycle. I said, it helped me, when I suddenly overheated, to think of offering something that no longer served, into the fire pit of the goddess to transmute into energy and light.

    Today I offered some asana practice-inspired tips to any older friend to help with getting up and down off the floor.

    What in your current stage of embodiment are you interested in practicing and deepening your awareness and understanding?

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  • Art and Culture | Asana, Pranayama, and Yoga Practice | Community and Family | Food for the Mind (Yoga Philosophy, etc) | Meditation | Photos

    Found Exhortation

    ByElizabeth August 28, 2022

    Ahh. “Free the mind.” Free it of ignorance and being stuck in old, tired patterns of thinking—societal, ancestral, and created from our own lived experience. Free the mind to imagine, create, deduce, consider alternatives and choices and cause and effect. Celebrate the mind to free it to enhance our being, individual and communal.

    Seen from the D6 on my way to volunteer at The Lantern Bookshop in Georgetown 8/28/22

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  • Asana, Pranayama, and Yoga Practice | Food for the Mind (Yoga Philosophy, etc) | Meditation | Photos

    Prakasha-Vimarsha?

    ByElizabeth August 27, 2022

    At the Tillai Kali temple in Chidambaram, above the murti of Kali where ritual offerings are made, is a mirror that reflects the viewers, bringing their reflection into the puja. I noticed the mirror and asked Douglas Brooks, who was standing next to me on the trip he was leading, “prakasha and vimarsha”? He affirmed my guess—saying it had taken him many visits to appreciate the presence of the mirror and its purpose to remind of the S/self reflected in the light of consciousness.

    Seeing the “free” sign on this mirror when I was out walking, that place and time came to mind.

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  • Meditation | Photos

    Untitled

    ByElizabeth August 22, 2022August 22, 2022

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  • Asana, Pranayama, and Yoga Practice | Food for the Mind (Yoga Philosophy, etc) | Meditation | Photos

    Be Here Now (Var.)

    ByElizabeth August 20, 2022August 20, 2022
    Sign over kiosk in parking lot reads, “Stop here.  Pay in advance.”

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  • Food for the Mind (Yoga Philosophy, etc) | Meditation | Photos

    Svatantrya?

    ByElizabeth August 19, 2022August 19, 2022
    In red capital letters stenciled on a white-painted, brick wall, the word “free.”

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  • Art and Culture | Asana, Pranayama, and Yoga Practice | Food for the Mind (Yoga Philosophy, etc) | Meditation | Photos

    Be Here Now (Var.)

    ByElizabeth August 14, 2022
    Sign seen through art gallery window reads, “if you’re here, you belong.”

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  • Art and Culture | Asana, Pranayama, and Yoga Practice | Community and Family | Photos

    Signs Around Town

    ByElizabeth August 14, 2022August 14, 2022
    Sign attached to street light reads, “venture out.”

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    Down By the River

    ByElizabeth August 13, 2022August 13, 2022

    It was a fine day to walk down to the river.

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  • Meditation | Photos

    What Did You Notice Today?

    ByElizabeth August 6, 2022

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