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Food, family, friends, life (and leftovers)

Author: Elizabeth November 28, 2008 1 Comment

Yesterday I celebrated the bounty of Thanksgiving with my friend Pat and her children, which was just delightful.  The food was bounteous and delicious, but not to the point of groaning excess.  While I was at the yoga fundraiser in… (READ MORE)

Community and Family, Food for the Body

Abundance and Gratitude

Author: Elizabeth November 27, 2008 0 Comments

Many thanks to all who came and participated in the yoga fundraising class for Oxfam.  Special thanks also to Suzie Hurley and Willow Street Yoga for making the space available.  True gratitude for the practice of yoga itself.  Together we… (READ MORE)

Community and Family

Thanksgiving

Author: Elizabeth November 26, 2008 0 Comments

As I prepare to lead the annual yoga fundraiser for Oxfam and then celebrate with friends the abundance of my life and my gratitude for all I have, I contemplate this writing of Swami Chidvilasananda: Revere food as God.  Revere… (READ MORE)

Food for the Mind (Yoga Philosophy, etc)

The Lantern

Author: Elizabeth November 23, 2008 0 Comments

Today, I go to work my one Sunday a month at the Lantern Bookshop.  I have been volunteering at the Lantern for over 15 years.  My volunteer work there is service, but it is not selfless.  The Lantern serves the… (READ MORE)

Food for the Mind (Yoga Philosophy, etc)

Looking for the Good

Author: Elizabeth November 20, 2008 0 Comments

As I read the blogs and commentaries about the transition, I’ve been thinking a lot about John Friend’s exhortation that we should always start by looking for the good.  This is a very unsettling time — economic and environmental crisis,… (READ MORE)

Food for the Mind (Yoga Philosophy, etc)

Music for Asana Practice

Author: Elizabeth November 16, 2008 1 Comment

Yesterday the mysterious beeping was beeping again in Studio 1B.  I have all sorts of approaches to teaching with the beeping.  One of them is to switch the attention of the ears to music.  We flowed to Now by Bhagavan… (READ MORE)

Asana, Pranayama, and Yoga Practice

“No-Knead” Bread

Author: Elizabeth November 14, 2008 0 Comments

In November 2006, the New York Times published a recipe adapted from Jim Lahey’s Sullivan Street Bakery for “no-knead”bread.  I immediately adapted it further (as did many of those who commented on-line).  Many thought the NYT adaptation benefited from more… (READ MORE)

Food for the Body

11-11

Author: Elizabeth November 11, 2008 1 Comment

11-11 is the eleventh day of the eleventh month of our calendar.  It is Veterans’ Day (still on 11-11 and not on the nearest Monday).  It is a day to contemplate what I, as a citizen, can do to invert… (READ MORE)

Community and Family

Putting the Garden to Bed Sun Salute

Author: Elizabeth November 10, 2008 0 Comments

Yesterday (latest in the season ever — see interesting articles in the New York Times last month about Thoreau as a climatologist) I spent the morning bringing all my tropical plants inside.  Part of the reason it was later is… (READ MORE)

Asana, Pranayama, and Yoga Practice, Gardening

Seva

Author: Elizabeth November 5, 2008 0 Comments

Now the real work begins!  That is what President-Elect Obama, the headlines, the pundits, the commenters, all said, hardly pausing to savor “victory.”  Unlike 1992, no one is suggesting that it is now time to party like it’s 1999.  I… (READ MORE)

Food for the Mind (Yoga Philosophy, etc)

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