Shanna Small – OmStars

December 13, 2021
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

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, 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

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

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

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

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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