Understanding Movement
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Barbara U.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Yoga
"There is a great difference between knowing and understanding; you can know a lot about something and not really understand it." - Charles Kettering
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Yoga Books
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Barbara U.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Yoga
I attended Steve Salkin's workshop on shoulders this past Sunday at Big Island Yoga Center and really enjoyed it. We went through a long list of stretches and techniqu ...
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Teachers, Teaching
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Barbara U.
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John Leebold sent this picture of himself seated next to Guruji, a couple of months ago and I was reminded of it while reading The Lion of Pune, Rumi and I t ...
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Mantra Markings
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Barbara U.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Yoga
Order is a lovely thing; on disarray it lays its wing, teaching simplicity to sing.
-Anna Branch
The downside of moving three times in one year is that I c ...
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The Perfect Practice
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Barbara U.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Yoga
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfecti ...
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The End of the Beginning
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Barbara U.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Yoga
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
-Winston Churchill
Those of you who have bee ...
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Happy Father's Day 2011
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Barbara U.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Yoga
- Winston Churchill
This is one of my favorite photographs from my family gathering in San Francisco during the Memorial Day weekend. It's a picture of ...
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Getting Even
by
Barbara U.
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The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. ~John E. Southard
I'd like to get even with this man.
I could stop righ ...
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The Gift of Support
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Barbara U.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Yoga
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
-John F. Kennedy
When asked a few da ...
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Beautifully Different
by
Barbara U.
Posted in: Blog Posts in Yoga
For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day. -Evelyn Underhill
This month, I'm responding to prompts offered daily by the authors ...
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