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Evolve, from the Latin evolvere “to unroll, roll out, roll forth, unfold.” It’s what we do. Here, embodied, we roll, on this planet of ours around the Sun. We roll from one day into the next, one phase of life to another. Our lives unfold before us. I think we assume that there is a progression,…
Reawaken your Awareness, and Begin Again with Yoga for Mental Health in 2024
With each moment of awareness, we begin again. As we cycle through each breath, day, month, year… we begin again. It is the most refreshing, and most humbling realization. We are reborn! Each time we notice that we begin again we become childlike… vulnerable, passionate, tender, awed, and delighted by the most ordinary things. In…
Allow
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Lovingkindness
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