Category: Mini-Fannies
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We Are One
Today, we return to the yoga teacher training after breaking for the holiday season. Happy 2023 everyone! This is our final month, which seems unfathomable. Will we really have 200 hours on January 28th? Impossible. Also, I know nothing. I have scratched the tip of the tip of the tip of the iceberg. Me, teach?…
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Opportunities for Growth
On Sundays, yoga teacher training happens in an old renovated feed mill. The studio is on the second floor and there is a wooden perimeter balcony that overlooks the airy, brick and glass bounded central space which is often used for indoor markets, weddings, and events. I arrived early yesterday, bought a cup of coffee…
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Oh Purpose, My Purpose aka Dharma Dreams
Last night, my eyes started to drizzle shut around 7:45 pm. This after a dispute with my partner – these have been happening frequently lately. Little spits and spats, over and done in 5 or 10 minutes, often of my own making. The exhaustion set in and I fell asleep feeling half empty, not half…
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Isvara Pranidhana
I have to talk to my yoga teacher training class about what this means to me. So I thought I’d post my notes for all of you (all three :-)). Here we go. Isvara Pranidhana comes from a climate about as different from Wisconsin as you can get. But the theme of surrender applies universally.…
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Holding On
Last weekend, we had a break from yoga school. It was Thanksgiving weekend, or, as I call it – Gratitude Day. Thanksgiving is so historically problematic and being from a sort of imploded and disconnected family, the traditions haven’t felt meaningful to me in a long time, if they ever did. So, I’m okay with…
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A Beautiful Moment
It is harder to chronicle the yoga teacher training experience than I anticipated. My initial plan was to post after each weekend session – or at least at the end of the weekend. However, all technical difficulties aside, there is a resistance in my mind to doing this – or much of anything, when the…
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