Ananda Tandava

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50th birthday week in California dancing, playing, exploring, thinking, relating, connecting, witnessing, creating.

Breakfast for Meditating

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The figs are fresh-picked on the property: the apricot preserves are made from fruit picked on site. Yum.

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What Are You Going to Do With It?

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We all have one of these. The question is whether we can learn to use, repurpose, refine, release, and dissolve to best serve ourselves and our environment.

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John Friend and Cate Stillman on Disease & Rhythm

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I just received Cate Stillman‘s e-newsletter, which highlights an interview with John Friend on Disease and Rhythm.

Time to Pause

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To be able to be most fully present when being active, it is crucial to pause, to be quiet and still, to nap, to allow enough time for a good night’s sleep.

Resting and being quiet does not just mean practicing meditation, pranayama, and asana while otherwise speeding about and constantly multitasking. The practices are a wonderful way to bring more delight, acceptance, flexibility, awareness, and understanding to everything we do, and make more manageable an overstretched life style.

At some point in our practices, though, we realize that in order to get the most out of the practices and to be able to live what we get from the yoga, we need to be well-rested and consume with all of our senses and eat what best nourishes our body and mind.

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More About Eating Local

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Some great reminders and interesting new tidbits of information in this article/book review about globalization and Columbus.  With a little help from our friends, some dedicated scholars, and a willingness to learn, we can have a better understanding of the complicated web of being.

It wasn’t so much the Columbian trade that did it as much as other international trade and travel, but our modern Western yoga practice has much of the same cross-culturing, ocean-criss-crossing intermingling as does our diet and agriculture.

“HerVotes”

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A list of 10 laws critical for the health and welfare of women that are in danger in this election cycle.  What does it mean to you and how will you respond?

The Garden Thrills to the Thunderstorms

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About a Can Opener

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“Lady, do you have some spare change?” asked a man sitting on a bench with eyes glassed over from one or more intoxicants, which from one of the notes in the bouquet of odors included alcohol.

“I don’t have any change,” I replied, “but would you like a peach?  I just bought some.”

“No.  I have my own.”  After a pause, when I’d already passed him,  he called out, “do you have a can opener?”

I guess his peaches were canned and that he preferred them canned to fresh.

 

Have You Noticed

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Have you noticed that there are fewer butterflies than there used to be? I am missing them.

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