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On The Mat And In the World: The Practice of Appreciation (Guest Post)

Scene: Santa Barbara City College. I’m nineteen, a part-time student, a full-time retail employee at Anthropologie, sitting in my night class: Cultural Anthropology. It’s the end of spring semester, and it stays light outside almost until the class ends at 9:00. Tonight: a guest speaker, an anthropology PhD student writing her dissertation on the use …

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Five Poses You Need at Home During the Holidays (and Wherever You Travel)

Yoga classes are a must in the month of December. My gentle classes get bigger this time of year and the anxiety level of the people walking through the door is usually heightened. However, one yoga class a week usually isn’t enough to help you deal with the influx of family, travel arrangement, holiday shopping, …

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Observation: Practice Lesson #4

As this is the last post in the Practice series I’ve been thinking an awful lot about what makes people stick to a routine. I’ve already talked about how I don’t think that discipline builds a practice or keeps it going, I’ve talked about lighting a spark to keep the fire alive in your practice and I’ve helped brainstorm …

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Discipline: Practice Lesson #1

Merriam Webster defines “discipline” in the following variety of ways: punishment, instruction, a field of study, training that corrects moral character, control gained by enforcing obedience or order, orderly or prescribed conduct or pattern of behavior, self-control. All that exhausts me. Let’s talk about the difference between practice and discipline. Maybe there isn’t one in …

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