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October 25, 2019
I’m Back On Sugar
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Watch me as I step down from the pedestal of the 7 ways I’m fabulous once in a while. On a blog post.
This past year I’ve taken a sabbatical of sorts, and I say ‘of sorts’ because nothing stopped or even seemed to change, in fact everything was pretty much the same. I kept writing and drafted two books which I am petrified of finishing, I kept going to work, and playing ping pong and doing a bit of asana.
I’m also part of a collective book project for which I am the Senior? Writer/Editor? Wait, those are not the words, is more like I’m the one doing most of the writing and getting people’s submissions and editing, without getting any cash or even credit.… Read the rest
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October 31, 2018
Yoga Meditation: The Proper Way
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I’ve not learned yoga meditation directly from a teacher in the past 18 years. Then, Gregor Maehle published his fourth book: Yoga Meditation in 2003.
This is by far my favorite book of his, not only because it is well written and easy-to-understand, but also because I had never found all the information in one place.
I chose the back of the book here to show the “Yantras” (mystical diagrams) shape and colors which are forms we can visualize in the advanced stages of meditation
Vipassana Meditation Drove Me Crazy
I’ve tried Vipassana, and on my first 10-day course I felt like I was going insane. … Read the rest
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September 25, 2018
My Part in this Mess
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It is difficult to glance at the news today, it hurts, and at the same time it’s irresponsible to avoid them. Yes, it’s troublesome and it throws me off-center. But it’s happening, and as per Marianne Williamson’s recent talk, pretending to be all spiritual and denying the reality around me, thinking I am beyond because I am on a spiritual path is tone deaf.
From the children still in cages in Texas crying “mami!” or returning to their parents with PTSD or worse, dead, to the desperation I imagine the mothers must be feeling, to an administration that has thrown all decency out the window and threatens countries through Twitter to divert attention from treason, to racial profiling and killing, to the Muslim ban, denying climate change, exploiting all resources for profit, and so on.… Read the rest
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March 28, 2018
Played A Master At Ping Pong Today
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“It’s a waste of time for me to play a beginner”, said the best ping pong player at Bryant Park today at lunch.
OH MY GOD I am talking to the best pong player in frigging Bryant Park, it is like a beginner chess-player finally meeting A Chess Master… A total no-chance.
He is also right, it “is” a waste of time.
BUT I am NOT a beginner. I can return it, my serve is (shit as I found out) but passes, I do some spin, and with luck I will slam it once in 10 times.
I’m blurry when I play
Took a big breath
“Do you have a pad”?
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February 8, 2018
Hey! Ashtanga Yoga, I am NOT Dirty Cause I’ve Got My Period F/O!
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In Feb 2008 I heard Lakshmi, in the yoga studio (shala) in Mysore (Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute) who is a senior Sanskrit teacher tell us that a woman on her period is “DIRTY” – Seriously Lakshmi? How about you grow the FKup?
And pleaseeeee do not give me the culture difference b/s because I just about HAD IT with it. #Metoo is #Metoo PERIOD
So here I come with my shot: Fu*k THAT, because it is THAT blood from my own period I’m bleeding now as you read this, that got you here Lakshmi. Wake up and smell the red stuff.… Read the rest
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January 12, 2018
Coming Out: The Lethal Dose
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I already have the lethal dose, the 7 mg of Amitriptyline, it’s easy to get the rest for the suicidal cocktail. Now what? I’m scared that’s what. What if it doesn’t work and the psycho-psychiatrist I have at the moment gets me in a hospital under his control. He was talking frigging electroshock the last time I saw him. W T F!
Once I asked him, the psychiatrist, where he was from. He said he would never tell me anything about him cause he is the ‘doctor’ and I’m the ‘patient’. Mansplaining in the most despicable way.
But he is not what is wrong with this photo.… Read the rest
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October 23, 2017
One Of My Videos Reaches 2 Million Views!
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I am over the moon… Not sure why this one in particular but hey! I’ll take it.
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October 20, 2017
How I Quit Sugar
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This was not give up sugar and keep eating granola. No. This was no sugar, no flour, no grains, no syrups or brown molasses or agave or anything close. Nothing. The real #nosugar.
My grandmother gave me my first cup of coffee (Instant) with 3 SUGARS at age 6. Then she talked to me as if I was an adult, and my thoughts came together intelligently.
But I decided not to publish unless a whole four weeks of abstinence had gone by because you never know with a powerful drug like sugar. And Alas! the days have passed and the month mark is near, in exactly: 20 minutes. … Read the rest
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October 9, 2017
Yoga: 9 Changes that Completely Transformed Me
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It’s not improving but unfolding that makes us grow. We are fine the way we are, and it makes me uncomfortable when someone tries to tell me something that will “make” me better. Our own process is precious, unique, special, and nobody knows what the next best step is, not even us.
Image by Alex Grey
Still there is no denying that the world we live in tends to attack our natural process of unfolding, large billboards show us what one in a million women look like (a model) and we think maybe we are not right, or the level of noise from the person sitting next to us on the train and talking non-stop drives us crazy, or worse, we try our best to do our job at work with a screen that is constantly shinning blue light into our eyes diminishing the mitochondria power in our vision and making us weak.… Read the rest
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April 21, 2016
Yoga: Yes You Can Be Enligthened
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If you are reading this then you are ready to learn secrets of yoga that have been kept for thousands of years, not so much because they were locked away, but because getting to the core of them was too hard. Too many books to read, too many different schools and practices.
I am creating a new bookclub (chapter by chapter exploration) of the book Samadhi. See the bottom of this article for the book club I did on his pranayama book.
I wish I was
It is possible to attain the highest freedom, click on the book to read with me
free from thoughts, and that nothing woul bother me, I wish I was what people say is enlightened, a state of flow, or Samadhi, but life has a way to give us experiences so that we learn what we need to learn when we are ready.… Read the rest
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