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Marla’s Story: Getting to Know Myself (Svadhyaya)

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by Marla Sacks I took my first yoga class at a groovy New Age health spa many years ago. Afterwards, I felt totally relaxed and at ease. At that point, I was barely taking care of my inner voice. I wasn’t really aware of the turmoil in my mind. I did yoga sporadically at the … [Read more…]

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Kathryn’s Story: Becoming Fearless – How Yoga Taught Me to Face What Scares Me

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by Kathryn E Livingston I was raised on a steady diet of fear. My parents loved me deeply, but in their attempts to keep me safe, they instilled a distrust of the world. Fear was a four-letter word that haunted me from the moment I got up each morning until I went to bed at … [Read more…]

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Jade’s Story: The Gift of Now and How Yoga Helped Me Receive It

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by Jade Garratt Yoga has given me the gift of now, but I wasn’t always able to be present. Someone once asked me how often I thought I was in the present moment. At the time, my best guess was about five per cent of the time. I was practicing yoga regularly, and that was … [Read more…]

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Yoga Styles: What’s Your Favorite?

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I’m curious. What’s your favorite yoga style? And has it changed since you started practicing? With so many yoga styles and even variations within styles, finding your groove may take some time. It’s not even clear what counts as a yoga style and what is more of a whim. At a studio where I practice, … [Read more…]

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My Yoga Pants Dream: The Sign I Was Looking For

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Last week, I had a dream about yoga pants that turned out to be the sign I was looking for—the sign it was time to publish Yoga Circles. In my yoga pants dream, it was early morning, and I was chatting with a client about a project. After a while, my client suggested we stop talking about … [Read more…]

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The Devotion of Hanuman: How Love Born Of Commitment Can Change Our Lives

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One of my favorite images is of the Hindu deity Hanuman embracing Lord Rama. The devotion of Hanuman is a powerful legend. As the story goes, Hanuman, son of a monkey (his mom) and Vayu, the Lord of the Winds (his dad), had an impressive skill. As a boy, he could lift the hills and toss … [Read more…]

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Energy Healing: An Invitation to Connect and Tune In

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On Inauguration Day, just as the new president was about to take the oath of office, I switched off my car radio and entered a wonderful new healing center down the road from my new home. I visited the center this day because my dear yoga teacher, Marla, had invited me to experience her unique … [Read more…]

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Get Grounded and Branch Out: How Yoga Can Help

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Among the many ways yoga can change your life is it teaches you to get grounded when life tries to topple you over. Like anything worth achieving, it takes trial and error, failure and practice to hone this skill. Why is it important to get grounded? Things change all the time. Every day, the unexpected happens … [Read more…]

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Trust the Universe: Why It’s Usually Best to Choose Hope

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Recently, my yoga teacher gave me a book titled The Universe Has Your Back. It came at a particularly interesting time—a time when I felt the Universe might be conspiring to make me miserable. I wanted to trust the Universe, but sometimes it’s just so difficult! A few days before I received the book, which appeared … [Read more…]

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Fearless Yogis and the Practice of Personal Power

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Paramahansa Yogananda, whose life is chronicled in the yoga classic Autobiography of a Yogi, said, “To be fit for self-realization, man must be fearless.” Yoga can make you fearless. It can also give you personal power. Fearlessness often comes up in yoga, particularly when students are learning challenging poses. But what does it mean to be … [Read more…]

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