From the monthly archives:

October 2009

Yoga and a Story for Young Girls’ Self-Esteem

October 27, 2009

Yesterday I taught an afterschool girls club at Emerald Elementary in Broomfield, Colorado. It was the second time I had visited this group of girls, and it was great because the social worker who invited me, Jo-lynn Yoshihara Daly, was a friend from high school. The girls are all Hispanic fourth and fifth grade. I [...]

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Householder Yogini – Special Ed and the Eyes

October 8, 2009

Just yesterday while snuggling with my daughter she looked up at me and said, “I can see your third eye,” and she pointed right in the middle of my forehead. I had never spoken to her about that before until she said that, and I explained what the third eye was. I swear she has [...]

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Return to Pine Ridge Reservation

October 6, 2009

I’m thrilled that I will be returning to the Pine Ridge Reservation Oct. 11-12 with Yoga World Reach. I make the trip up to South Dakota in reverence, to enter the world of the Lakota people and come face to face with the shadow of our country’s history. Despite the high incidence of poverty, diabetes, [...]

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The Householder Yogini: Focus on Humanity Not Coins for Caesar

October 2, 2009

I remember a friend of my father’s; He was a concentration camp survivor, yet he hesitated to have his wife call an ambulance when he felt chest pains for fear of the expense. He died while his wife was driving him to the hospital. Late one night my daughter had a fever and she had [...]

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