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    Right Use of Energy: Walking My Talk
    Leigh Drake
    • Apr 5
    • 2 min

    Right Use of Energy: Walking My Talk

    The practice of yoga is a practice of connection. Whether our practice centers around movement, breath, meditation...
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    The Union of Opposites:  Terror and Joy
    Leigh Drake
    • Dec 15, 2021
    • 1 min

    The Union of Opposites: Terror and Joy

    For a while now, I’ve noticed that I want to focus on the good things in life and pretend that the bad doesn’t exist. It’s not part of...
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    Beyond Concentration:  Cultivating Spaciousness in Your Meditation Practice
    Leigh Drake
    • Sep 8, 2021
    • 1 min

    Beyond Concentration: Cultivating Spaciousness in Your Meditation Practice

    Cultivating spaciousness to combat concentration in meditation.
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    Connection at the Turning Points
    Leigh Drake
    • Mar 2, 2021
    • 3 min

    Connection at the Turning Points

    Hmmm. Unbalanced. I’m doing too much for others and not taking time for me. That’s showing up as skipping my meditation and my yoga...
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    Finding Some Peace with Surrender
    EB Ferdig
    • Feb 26, 2021
    • 3 min

    Finding Some Peace with Surrender

    These days, any difficult blow can seem like a huge pile-on to an already built-up pile of pre-existing conditions. I don't have to list...
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    The Breath: A Gateway to Giving and Receiving
    Leigh Drake
    • Feb 26, 2021
    • 2 min

    The Breath: A Gateway to Giving and Receiving

    Sometimes disconnection shows up in the guise of isolation, with the inner dialogue of “why am I the only one who…” “how come its always...
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    Being in Touch with Life Through Nature
    Leigh Drake
    • Feb 24, 2021
    • 2 min

    Being in Touch with Life Through Nature

    Lost in my thoughts, struggling mentally with a problem that becomes larger and larger the more I think about it. Someone interrupts;...
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    Connecting to Life Through the Senses
    Leigh Drake
    • Feb 21, 2021
    • 2 min

    Connecting to Life Through the Senses

    You need to do this. You should do that. This isn’t going the way I want. Why aren’t they doing what I want? Why is this sooooo...
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    Being Alive in a Disconnected World
    Leigh Drake
    • Feb 19, 2021
    • 2 min

    Being Alive in a Disconnected World

    Do you ever have those days when you just aren’t “feelin' it”; just aren’t connecting to the way you want to BE in the world and in your...
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    On Presence!
    neera malhotra
    • Oct 23, 2019
    • 3 min

    On Presence!

    It was early in the morning at around 6:30 am. With my hot steamy almond turmeric- cardamom milk, I sat on my chair next to the window...
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    A Powerful Antidote to Compassion Fatigue
    Ashley Dahl, MSW, CMT-P
    • Sep 7, 2019
    • 2 min

    A Powerful Antidote to Compassion Fatigue

    I learned about burnout as a first-year grad student in social work. Through my work-study position, I was tasked with contacting alumni...
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    The Power of Relationships
    EB Ferdig
    • Jun 19, 2019
    • 2 min

    The Power of Relationships

    by Laura Martin, LCSW I'm so gratified to offer mindfulness classes in a yoga studio that in every way endeavors to promote respect,...
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