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Tag: Meditation

Yoga for Grief 4 (Off the Mat) – Insomnia

Haven’t we all suffered nights of restless sleep? I still do sometimes, but now without the added anxiety and self-judgment. I don’t feel like a victim of my restless thoughts, emotions, and imagination. Knowing a few relaxation techniques gives us tools to try while lying in bed, eyes wide open, instead of stirring up anxiety… Read More Yoga for Grief 4 (Off the Mat) – Insomnia

May 22, 2018May 22, 2018 lsbanuLeave a comment

Exploded view of my now

Living forces honesty. Answers are seasonal, losing their sense precisely as they become scripture. You will die: this is the first meaning. The world around you seems to bear helpless witness to your wandering. Other people suffer in the same way, and yet this seems to increase loneliness. But you can welcome despair like gravity,… Read More Exploded view of my now

May 12, 2018May 12, 2018 lsbanuLeave a comment

Yoga for Grief 2 (Off the Mat)

This was week 2 of Yoga for Grief at the IU-Arnett Hospice in Lafayette, IN. Thank you to new and returning yoga friends. Yoga for grief can accompany each of Dr. William Worden’s four tasks of mourning: acceptance, processing, adjusting and finding a place for loss in new life. I am particularly interested in the… Read More Yoga for Grief 2 (Off the Mat)

May 1, 2018May 1, 2018 lsbanuLeave a comment

Wobblyogi Wednesday: Raisins and Meditation

Eating meditatively takes us beyond focused sensations of the tongue. Eating becomes an expansive experience of smells, textures, coordinated movements mediated by the body and received by the mind. What would it be like to “taste” everything for the first time?  Here is an excerpt from Full Catastrophe Living that explains the practice of mindful… Read More Wobblyogi Wednesday: Raisins and Meditation

February 21, 2018 lsbanuLeave a comment

Meditative Monday: Lessons from a Labyrinth

At first glance, this patch of grass looks like a creative mowing project. Like anything, how you approach it makes it either a frustrating walk in circles going nowhere or a transformative inner journey of self-awareness. For most of us, it may be both. I crossed paths with this labyrinth courtesy of a recent Community… Read More Meditative Monday: Lessons from a Labyrinth

November 6, 2017November 6, 2017 lsbanu2 Comments

Wobblyogi Wednesday – Dance Mom Meditation

Here is the meditation that helped me emotionally survive a weekend of dance competition. Almost. Our late start Saturday morning thankfully gave me time to sit for 20 minutes. The solidity of the floor is always best for a long straight spine but hotel room carpets always feel threatening to me. So, I sat comfortably… Read More Wobblyogi Wednesday – Dance Mom Meditation

April 12, 2017March 7, 2018 lsbanuLeave a comment

Having an Idea – Guy Claxton

The mother does not engineer her child’s intrauterine development, but she influences it enormously through her lifestyle and her sensitivity, her anxieties, appetites and attitudes, her history and her constitution. Who she is, and the physical and emotional environment that she herself inhabits, affects the nature and the quality of the sanctum that she provides… Read More Having an Idea – Guy Claxton

March 7, 2017March 7, 2017 lsbanuLeave a comment

Wobblyogi Wednesday: Happy Place Escape

Has yoga helped me find my “happy place”? Will it help you find yours? Confessedly, my definition of happiness has shifted from being associated with joy, laughter, passion to being associated with ease being in my own skin and ease being with others in this often unkind and unpredictable world. Today I ended our morning… Read More Wobblyogi Wednesday: Happy Place Escape

August 10, 2016 lsbanu2 Comments

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