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Living a Meaningless Life?
carolyn aka LaughingYogini | June 25, 2009
Think your life is too small? Think you need to do something significant, something with impact, something for your children to remember you by? When we start spinning our thoughts in this direction, it’s usually a sign that we need to to chill, breathe for a bit, and as Jen Louden, virtual life coach diva, [...]
Riding the wave
carolyn aka LaughingYogini | June 23, 2009
One of my teachers used to say to “ride the wave of the breath.” It’s a beautiful image, isn’t it? I have used it many times to reconnect with the currents of prana swirling in and out of my being.
I’m sitting here today in a different lesson. It’s riding the wave of LIFE. Geesh, do [...]
studying the life of the buddha as an aid to meditation
carolyn aka LaughingYogini | June 18, 2009
You don’t need to espouse Buddhism or Hinduism or any religion at all to practice yoga and meditation.
However, we can learn much from the Buddha’s life and the practices he developed and incorporate them as a means of deepening our own spiritual journey.
Here is the fascinating story of Siddhartha’s life from the BBC and Discovery [...]
Asparagus Strata recipe
carolyn aka LaughingYogini | June 14, 2009
A Yogini’s Recipes for Happiness
Whenever I have guests for breakfast, I usually whip up a strata because it can be prepared the night before AND it tastes delicious. A highly variable dish, this asparagus version is a bit drier that some you may have tried, but guests have remarked that they especially like the texture. [...]
Video Thursday, RUMI poetry meditation
carolyn aka LaughingYogini | June 11, 2009
Poetry can be used as a wonderful tool for your meditation. There is a layer of a good poem that is “off the page.” When I teach poetry, I ask my students to try to understand, not only the literal interpretation of a given poem, but also whatever levels they find off the page.
Often, we [...]
Metaphors of Life and Yoga
carolyn aka LaughingYogini | June 10, 2009
A preliminary list of
processes in life that metaphorically
relate to yoga:
Eating—breathing in prana
Excreting—exhaling prana
Walking or other exercising—stoking the metabolic fire as in backbends, also releasing tension like forward bends, also could be dhyana, pranayama
Sleeping—metaphorically yoga nidra/ restorative yoga—allowing the body and mind to heal
Dying—letting go of our grip on the world as we do [...]
Video Collage of B.K.S. Iyengar
carolyn aka LaughingYogini | June 5, 2009
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