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Lunchtime Idyll

Author: Elizabeth January 6, 2011 0 Comments

I did not have much time for a break today as I had a meeting scheduled for 1:30 pm. I always try to take at least a short break from work in the middle of the day, including a walk… (READ MORE)

Art and Culture, Community and Family, Gardening, Meditation, Photos

lunch time break, US Botanical Garden, work day meditation

Kvelling and Kvetching

Author: Elizabeth January 5, 2011 2 Comments

It started before yesterday’s Tuesday night class. There was a piece of fuzz next to one of the students mats–a schmutz. We then decided that the yoga outfit, especially the old raggedy one, was a schmata. Tonight, I was in… (READ MORE)

Art and Culture, Asana, Pranayama, and Yoga Practice, Community and Family

birds falling out of the sky, fish washing up on the shore, republicans taking back control of congress, yiddish for yogis, yoga for yentas

Rothko in the Tower Closing This Sunday

Author: Elizabeth January 5, 2011 0 Comments

Walk quietly and meditatively to the National Gallery’s East Wing right away if you have not yet seen the Rothko in the Tower exhibit and you are in town. Exquisite. I have been many times while it has been open… (READ MORE)

Art and Culture

art appreciation, National Gallery of Art, Rothko, Rothko in the Tower

My Top Yoga-Related Reads of 2010

Author: Elizabeth January 4, 2011 0 Comments

These are not in any particular order. Nor have I attempted to make a list of round numbers, such as “top 10,” though I could have found 10 to be “top” if I had really tried. The emphasis here, with… (READ MORE)

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

Be Here Now, Be Love Now, Edwin Bryant Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, flooding in Pakistan 2010, interrelationship between east and west, Ram Dass, the Great Oom, The Rains Came, top yoga reads of 2010, Yoga Body

Web Version of E-Newsletter “New Year’s Greeting”

Author: Elizabeth January 2, 2011 0 Comments

Dear Friends, The changing of the calendar gives us a wonderful opportunity to reflect on the past year and think of how we might wish to grow or shift to best serve ourselves and others in the coming year. 2010… (READ MORE)

Art and Culture, Asana, Pranayama, and Yoga Practice, Community and Family, Miscellaneous (blog matters, etc)

Bryn Mawr bookshop, Elizabeth Goodman at Willow Street Yoga, elizabeth yoga capital hill, John Friend, Lantern Bookshop, Paul Muller-Ortega, rose garden yoga, Yoga for Gardeners

I Wanted to Be Near the Water

Author: Elizabeth January 1, 2011 0 Comments

When I finished practicing this morning, all I wanted was to be near the water. I walked to the tidal basin–about seven miles round trip. Some of the museums were open. After the crowds in New York, even the Natural… (READ MORE)

Photos

Two Temptations of Maya

Author: Elizabeth December 31, 2010 1 Comment

In classical yoga, maya is the illusion that the tangible world is what is real. Only atman is real; the world we experience through our senses (and our senses them selves) as reality is an illusion. We renounce the world… (READ MORE)

Art and Culture, Community and Family, Food for the Body, Food for the Mind (Yoga Philosophy, etc), Photos

avidya, Maya, satcitananda, tantric yoga philosophy, tantric yoga practice, viveka

An Old and Profoundly Heartfelt Wish for the New Year

Author: Elizabeth December 31, 2010 0 Comments

If only wishing could make it so, this yearning of a few for so many countless generations. I will be examining, for the new year, what I can do to diminish conflict in my own life–because that I can do.

Art and Culture, Community and Family, Food for the Mind (Yoga Philosophy, etc)