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  • December 13, 2021

    Breaking the Code

    Breaking the Code

    “Broadly, code-switching involves adjusting one’s style of speech, appearance, behavior, and expression in ways that will optimize the comfort of others in exchange for fair treatment, quality service, and employment ...

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    Category: Culture
  • September 14, 2020

    Simple Ways to Teach Ashtanga Yoga with a Trauma-Informed Lens

    Simple Ways to Teach Ashtanga Yoga with a Trauma-Informed Lens

    There are many reasons you may choose to teach Ashtanga from a trauma-informed lens. The stories of sexual assault regarding the father of Ashtanga Yoga, Pattabhi Jois, has left many ...

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    Category: Practice
  • June 3, 2020

    Yoga Community, Your Love and Light is Not Working

    Yoga Community, Your Love and Light is Not Working

    Yoga community, that love and light you sent out, it’s not working. It didn’t make it to George Floyd as he fought to breathe with a White policeman’s knee on ...

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    Category: Culture
  • February 21, 2020

    In Support of POC and Marginalized Folks in the Yoga Community

    In Support of POC and Marginalized Folks in the Yoga Community

    To understand why I feel strongly about providing resources to POC and marginalized populations who want to practice Yoga, I need to tell a little bit of my story. From ...

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    Category: Culture
  • December 24, 2019

    The Myth of the Pain-Free Practice

    The Myth of the Pain-Free Practice

    With your first heartbeat, you sign up for a ride called life. Life is a Self or God choreographed sequence sprinkled with crazy experiences, joyous events and untimely disasters you ...

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    Category: Practice
  • September 3, 2019

    Finding a Balanced Path

    Finding a Balanced Path

    Yoga seems to be full of contradictions.  For instance, in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, a text that codifies the path of Raja Yoga, Sage Patanjali lists running from pain/aversion ...

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    Category: Wellness
  • August 12, 2019

    The Difference Between Intent and Impact

    The Difference Between Intent and Impact

    Why Knowing the Difference Between Intent and Impact are Important on the Yogic Path. An important part of the yogic principle of Ahimsa, non-violence, is understanding that intent and impact ...

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