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  • August 21, 2020

    Yoga Stories Series: Bharadvajasana

    Yoga Stories Series: Bharadvajasana

    Knowledge is never knowledge until shared. The posture of Bharadvajasana with a spinal twist looking over the shoulders is symbolic of the effort we all can make look beyond ourselves, ...

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  • August 14, 2020

    For Yogis with Chronic Illness or Cancer

    For Yogis with Chronic Illness or Cancer

    In the spring of 2011 I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. I was really lucky. Not only did I catch an aggressive form of cancer just before it started to ...

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  • August 10, 2020

    Why Yoga is not a safe space for all – Part 1

    Why Yoga is not a safe space for all – Part 1

      What we believe to be Yoga, the community, the collective voice, the healing, the vibrations, has always been a place of exclusion, and though it has presented as a ...

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  • July 28, 2020

    The Cultural Appropriation of Sanskrit

    The Cultural Appropriation of Sanskrit

    You walk into yoga class and by the end of it, you have probably heard some terms like “namaste” “sutra” “drishti” or “mandala”. If you’ve never questioned the meaning behind ...

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  • July 22, 2020

    It’s Time to Make Peace with Your Hormones

    It’s Time to Make Peace with Your Hormones

    PMS making you crazy? Hot flashes? Anxiety? As women, our amazing and beautiful bodies take us on rides that sometimes feel empowering and strong, and sometimes like an out-of-control circus ...

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  • July 14, 2020

    Interview with Susanna Barkataki

    Interview with Susanna Barkataki

    I had no idea when I first started learning yoga, reclaiming and practicing the spiritual technologies of my ancestors how much inner power I was about to tap. I simply ...

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  • July 8, 2020

    Your Quarantine Yoga Practice (and Progress) Looks Different, and That’s Okay

    Your Quarantine Yoga Practice (and Progress) Looks Different, and That’s Okay

    This heightened awareness that we are experiencing in every other aspect of our lives can also be found within ourselves and what our personal mind, body, and souls need, right ...

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  • June 29, 2020

    Marsha’s Dharma: Yoga and Social Justice

    Marsha’s Dharma: Yoga and Social Justice

    Marsha P. Johnson was a drag queen (her own words and way of self-identifying at this time) who climbed a light post and changed the world. When she stood before ...

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  • June 23, 2020

    Healing Ashtanga Yoga Through Radical Unlearning and Co-Creation of Community

    Healing Ashtanga Yoga Through Radical Unlearning and Co-Creation of Community

    In the wake of the most recent and publicized murders of Black men and women at the hands of state-sanctioned systemic violence, seven years after the phrase was coined by ...

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  • June 18, 2020

    Celebrating International Yoga Day with Yoga Gives Back

    Celebrating International Yoga Day with Yoga Gives Back

    Yoga made me realize that my body is a temple. I am responsible to take care of it so that I can serve others. This was a profound awakening. It ...

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