Tag: teaching
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The “It’s Been Awhile Newsletter” (Such a Classic): and a new-ish piece about violence
Hello, Dear Reader, Lover of Yoga, Poetry, Writers, and (maybe) Music too(?), Thank you for opening this post. I love you. (New-ish piece is below if you wanna just scroll there.) So, yeah, it’s been a while and this is a classic headline for me — and many other people scattered about the world. I…
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A Sort of Spring Clean (Two Little Girls Share a Room)
We clean the stuff off of dressers and out of drawers and find we’re overwhelmed. This is the cost of stuff. Pictures and drawings, cards, notes, crayon mandalas, each one a decision. We make piles: Keep, Give, Throw. We find dentist-office toys (plastic eyeballs), library-toys, (fluorescent bouncy balls) birthday party favors (fake nose and glasses, and…
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little gurus (IV)
My yoga mat fits neatly in the narrow front hall, extending along the hard floor from the base of the door to the edge of the living room carpet. I stand in samastithi and am reminded to dedicate my practice. The crucifix hanging to my left side, not twenty-four inches from my cheek, thankfully doesn’t…
Amy Secrist 