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Continue reading →: Rooting In: Presence over Punishment
The transition from pre-Christmas to pre-New Years advertisements is jarring. It happens on Christmas Day, sometime after noon. Ads from November 1 to December 24 encourage consumption. Decorate your entire home with three clicks on Amazon! Buy slippers for the whole family! Finance a new vehicle! And don’t forget the…
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Continue reading →: A short entry on Ahimsa, and a Playlist
I have several times started then subsequently deleted a long writing about how I don’t know how to teach yoga while ICE is brutalizing and kidnapping members of my community. That topic, it seems, is too complex even on media where I have space to explore those nuances. Perhaps that…
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Continue reading →: Playlist for Mercury Retrograde
I love a good playlist. Music in general has forever inspired me, spoken to my soul, and carried me through life’s joys and challenges. I craft playlists for everything: road trips, dinner parties, bath time, even a day of household chores. So naturally I became one of “those yoga teachers”…
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Continue reading →: Rooting In
The theme of my Samhain reflection was reprioritization of energy. It’s a little cliché for yoga teachers to be talking about “letting go” this time of year, but with the changing of the seasons, it’s a timely theme. For example, I haven’t been prioritizing my 55hr myofascial release training at…
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Continue reading →: The Hermit
Idiot, slow down! Slow down. ~ Radiohead Running through a hospital ward will usually get some attention. We only really run when there’s an emergency. Ok, we only run when it’s a big emergency. Walking briskly, it seems, is the norm. At least it’s become mine. I was on my…
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Continue reading →: On Advanced Yoga
I took a flow class last weekend, one that regularly challenges me both physically and mentally. That morning, however, I just wasn’t feeling it. I was tired from the workweek and needed some energy for teaching my own class later that day. So I hid in the back corner and…
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Continue reading →: Why blogging?
Do people even blog anymore? Let me ask a bigger question. Does anyone actually write anymore? Like, more than 300 characters? What about reading? Do people read, as in read longer media? Multiple paragraphs with nuance, text that someone has edited? Or do we really prefer uncomfortably up close videos…
Hi friend,
I’m Lauren
I’m a Durham-based yoga teacher and registered nurse. Welcome to my blog!
Here you will find my musings on yoga, equanimity, health, and mindfulness from a feminist/anti-capitalist perspective.
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