Yoga insight – OmStars

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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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 12, 2019
Reevaluating your New Years Resolutions – A Guide for Yogis

At the beginning of each and every year, many of us begin with a set of resolutions intended to help us better our lives in some way, shape, or form. ...

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Category: Culture
December 18, 2018
The Scar of Resentment

Things are not as linear as they might seem. I wish at times they were. Sometimes I wish I could accumulate enough wisdom to be unharmed by life’s blows. But ...

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November 27, 2018
Eight Simple Words

This quote sticks in my head like one of those earworms that creeps into your head off the radio and keeps popping up to annoy you and everyone around you ...

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October 30, 2018
Flowing Through Motherhood

For the last several years of my life, I’ve followed the same morning routine: I wake before the sun, enjoy a hot cup of coffee, and then spend an hour ...

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May 8, 2018
Trauma, the Gunas and the Polyvagal Theory

Trauma field luminaries such as Peter Levine, PhD and Bessel van der Kolk, MD, among others, concur that trauma is in the body, not in the event – or in ...

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April 17, 2018
Emotions: Help or Hindrance on the Spiritual Path?

Once we engage on a spiritual path, and connect with the lofty ideal of enlightenment, it is easy to interpret our human emotions as representative of our lower mind and ...

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March 20, 2018
Suffering, Transformation, & The New Reality

Needless to say, there is suffering. Part of suffering is unavoidable. Small sufferings can wreak havoc momentarily as we attend educational programs, training, relocate, have a child or suffer the ...

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