Tag: black women and yoga
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Quiet
How often are you quiet? How often do you just sit with yourself and allow yourself to think and feel? Do you find that you do something else to distract your own quiet? What would happen if you only allowed the silence to be uninterrupted? It can be scary to sit in stillness, to sit…
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Bad At Yoga
The title of this post pays homage to a yogi that I follow on Instagram whom found me because many of my hashtags would include “#badyoga or #badatyoga”. In fact, I still am bad at yoga. I tend not to follow the status quo in my practice and even how I started yoga was not…
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Yin to the Yang
Accept your dark side, understanding it will help you to move with the light. Knowing both sides of our souls, helps us all to move forward in life and to understand that, perfection doesn’t exist. – Martin R. Lemieux When I first started practicing yoga, I felt that if I wasn’t muscling through it, I…
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Sweet Surprise
A 200-hour yoga teacher training will generally run from $1,000 to $3,000 and a more advanced yoga certification course can be anywhere from $1,000 to $7,000.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
It’s been one year of Spoonful of Honey. Still a work in progress and finding it’s way but will keep working and playing with it. Very challenging times right now with COVID-19 and we should remember to be kind to yourself and others. For this celebration of one year, I practiced with Adriene and enjoyed…
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Power and Grace
“Healing is not about ‘staying away from something bad’ but about living a life led by positive values & intentions’”~ Gabor Maté Yoga is a physical practice for a spiritual purpose. Powerful words from Rajat Thakur. Yoga is like a dance, it is communicative, tells a story. It combines power and grace, words that seem…
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Sitting with Unease
A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul. China Miéville, Perdido Street Station Since the start of the New Year, I have been filled with a sense of unease. The feeling that something just is not right, the feeling of…
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No Yoga
Taking a break can lead to breakthroughs. Russell Eric Dobda Last week, I decided not to practice yoga. I thought I could use a break and see how my body responded to it. I practice yoga daily, it is part of my life but I had a lot going on last week so used that…
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Thrive
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. – Maya Angelou As a yoga practitioner who practices at home, there are times when I feel that I don’t challenge myself enough. This is not just in my…
Sunny Wellness of Honey 