Monica Arellano – OmStars

January 9, 2023
Meditation as a Path to Experience Reality

I’m back from a 3-day vipassana retreat and sitting with everything that came up for me. Vipassana is one of India’s most ancient techniques of meditation. It was rediscovered by ...

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August 22, 2022
Getting on the Mat: Why is it so Hard Sometimes?

The way we practice, why we get on our mats, the directions we explore to experience something. There are so many possibilities. Do the differences matter? I think so. Whatever ...

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September 18, 2020
How Injury Brought Me Closer to the Purpose of Yoga

I attribute yoga taking over my life to the moment I started practicing Ashtanga yoga mysore style at Miami Life Center. It affected everything, not just the 90 minutes in ...

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May 19, 2020
An Unmoving Mountain: Reflections from a 10 Day Vipassana Course

I felt the need to run away, away from the work they were asking me to put in. I was looking for distractions in conversations, emails, planning, doing. I quickly ...

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April 21, 2020
Yoga Pose Tips: Upward Facing Dog

Upward facing dog is the first posture where you start to establish the patterns for back bending. It’s the patterns that are going to eventually help you get into the ...

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