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This weekend is the 1 year anniversary of my yoga studio out here in Seattle, and the owner invited me to be in pictures for promo for the studio! I feel so honored and happy to have found a place to practice and call my home base in terms of yoga! Hoping that all of you lovely followers can have a similar sense of grounding in your own practice!
xo
ken
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April 2013
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March 2013
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Calming Manatee →
For when you need a hug from the internet!
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Anonymous asked: Hi! I really want to know more about the eight limbs of yoga but I really do not want to purchase a book that has been written by a white Westerner. I was wondering if any of you all had any suggestions? I'm considering Light on Yoga by Yoga Dipika. I was also thinking of "The Yamas and Niyamas" by Deborah Adele but... I fear her book may be laden with appropriation. I may be wrong....
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“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for...”
– ::Neil DeGrasse Tyson (via whitecolonialism)
Here’s to generating your own motivation!
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Lululemon expects worldwide ‘shortage’ after... →
Well…the content of this article is probably not that surprising. Neither are the sexist, misogynistic, and racist comments left by readers.
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“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a...”
– Wild Geese, Mary Oliver (via havisham)
a poem our lovely yoga instructor used to read us in Ithaca.
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“Your soul isn’t in your body; your body is in your soul.”
– Alan Watts via Anton Newcombe
How often do you get to say Alan Watts via Anton Newcombe?
(via magnificentruin)
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WatchDianne Bondy and Chelsea Jackson talk about bringing diversity into the yoga community, a conversation much overdue.
These two women run amazing yoga blogs (chelsealovesyoga.com; diannebondyyoga.com) and it is so inspiring to hear them speak openly about the lack of colored bodies in yoga studios, communities, publications, and conferences.
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Cautions with Hot Yoga →
WHY PEOPLE SHOULD BE CAUTIOUS AND INFORMED WHEN DOING HOT YOGA:
*ELASTIC EDGE– our muscles and connective have a finite elastic edge where, once you pass that edge, the tissues simply break (ie tears) … we have sensory mechanisms that help us feel when we are reaching this elastic edge to prevent injury … in hot yoga, the excessive heat can readily dampen these sensory mechanisms allowing us to...
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February 2013
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So, in my annual goal-setting phase, I mentioned to my lovely beau that I wanted to learn to enjoy running, because when Seattle is nice out, it’s THE best place to run outside. So many amazing parks! Well, said beau was on the cross country team at his University before, and a “quick run” is usually around 5 miles.
Today, we went to the gym together and while he was hardly...
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Yes, I have a body but I do not begin and end with... →
Via my yoga instructor in Seattle, (@ The Grinning Yogi). She is amazing!
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“Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you,...”
– ::Robert Tew (via cityyandcolour)
And walk towards what grows you and makes you happy.
(Also who is Robert Tew?)
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January 2013
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PSA
Just as how your right-side and left-side differ in strength and flexibility, your right-side and left-side differ in pain tolerance.
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The Yoga Mogul →
Consider one afternoon in early June when he had just left a meeting with potential investors in Seattle, having flown to the West Coast after several months of giving Anusara workshops in Tokyo, Taipei, Bali and Morrisville, N.C., and was making a brief stopover in the Woodlands on his way to teach more workshops in Copenhagen, Munich, Paris and Park City, Utah — stops on his “Melt Your Heart,...
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Dualism
One of Ken’s latest posts reminded me of dualism. It’s present in yoga and Western philosophy. In Western philosophy, Cartesian dualism has had a huge influence—whenever people say “mind over matter,” that’s to which they’re referring. Cartesian dualism enabled Western science to flourish, but unfortunately, Cartesian dualism is also full of shit.
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