“I did not come to yoga to stretch. I came to live.”
~Maya Breuer, Kripalu Yoga Instructor

Coming to Yoga
As we age, we embrace new things, we evolve and grow in wisdom and strength. This is not always so, but it can be, if we maintain an openness to new ideas and accept life’s challenges […]

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“Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.”
~Margaret J. Wheatley

What is meditation?
Meditation is a contemplative state which one enters in order to relax the waking consciousness. There are many reasons that people take up meditation and there are numerous benefits to incorporating a regular […]

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Today started out quite foggy and dreary, but now it seems to be brightening and drying up. :)
After months of focusing on my diet and introducing a vegetarian lifestyle, I begin now to bring my focus to my physicality.
As part of that process, I have decided to stop dabbling in Yoga at home […]

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Some people are just drawn here. But few can explain why. Is it the history of the place? Is it the myths? Is it the modern community that they find here? For myself I cannot say that it is any one thing which makes Glastonbury (also known as Avalon) such a […]

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Some of you may be aware that, as an herbalist, I prefer self-healing to westernized medicine. Of course I do not advocate skipping immediate medical treatment in cases of extreme illness or emergency, but I feel that all intuition and common sense has vacated the local doctor’s office and gone searching for greener pastures.
For […]

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Along with my spiritual lessons and challenges I have recently been given a directive by my guides to detoxify my physical existence.
I have known for ages that this directive was on its way, as my reading tastes have been incorporating this and related concepts for a couple of years now.
But the timing of […]

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When I was 15 years old and living the hand-me-down hippie lifestyle, passed on from my Mom, I and my commune-raised friends who were descended from the Me Generation, were convinced that we were changing the world with our liberal politics and outspoken ways.
Most of those friends were vegetarian and, because I, at […]

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