"We seem to spend the first half of our lives learning things and then the second half trying to unlearn things."
I read the above quote in an ezine and thought it was so great that I wrote it down and posted it near my desk. Unfortunately, I can't remember the source but the sentiment […]

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“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.” ~ Joseph Campbell
My mother is a talented home decorator. She knows how to create a “mood” and a “tone” for a room. I did not inherit one iota of her skills. Despite the fact that I’ve lived in a house that I own […]

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Since I started this post with a title including the word “workout,” I just want to make a clarification — yoga is not exercise. To me, yoga is a holistic practice that involves your body, breath, and mind. That said, that doesn’t mean that it can’t meet all of your exercise needs…
A few weeks ago, […]

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I am often asked what my favorite yoga pose is. The truth is that I love 'em all (mostly!). Yet there is a special place in my heart for Headstand. That's because Headstand holds so much symbolic meaning for me. I love being upside down, as it represents seeing life from a totally different perspective. […]

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When I first started practicing yoga, I failed to understand the importance of pranayama. I never practiced it. After practicing for a while, I recognized the power of the breath and started to study pranayama. Now I use it in my daily life all the time — to focus, to energize, to calm down, to […]

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The continued mysterious death of honeybees, (36% loss of all colonies in the US this year alone) is now being linked to pesticides.
There are also typically suspicious shenanigans from the EPA involved:
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A comment from anony and an observation from YFS
At one institute … they wouldn’t even report what NRSA scores were fundable, just who got the grants and who didn’t…Yeah, that’s scientific all right.
remind me that one of the apparently less-obvious things about the selection of NIH grants for funding is that the study […]

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