Weekly Letter: Nice vs Real
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Weekly Letter: Nice vs Real

she said, ‘Excuse the mess, but I live here.’ It’s funny, her apartment wasn’t messy, but I loved how she honored her own humanity.

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Fix your Bridge Pose
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Fix your Bridge Pose

But so often, without regular assists, or in the event the person is practicing from home, this often goes unchecked.

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Weekly Letter: Scary or Unfamiliar?
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Weekly Letter: Scary or Unfamiliar?

Gary Vaynerchuk often says to win you need to fall in love with failing. Failing to him is a way forward into success, that you can’t succeed by being afraid of failing.

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Weekly Letter: A note on perfection
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Weekly Letter: A note on perfection

I think my generation is skeptical of perfection. It was this thing we pretended to be when we posed for photos or showed up to a school event.

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Weekly Letter: Grounding to Expand
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Weekly Letter: Grounding to Expand

There is a yoga technique rooted in the Samkyha philosophy which guides a person from a very deep, internal awareness and then begins to add pieces until the student is completely out of their body and intimately aware of the entire planet.

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Weekly Letter: Vrittis
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Weekly Letter: Vrittis

You might encounter someone who vrittis are very obvious in the way they present themselves. And you yourself may be impacted by their energy.

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Weekly Letter: Working with Vulnerability
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Weekly Letter: Working with Vulnerability

Last weekend during an event, I had one person say they had a hard time focusing on the practice and another person say that was the first time they have ever been so focused in a practice. Two very different experiences in the exact same class.

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Weekly Letter: To Travel
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Weekly Letter: To Travel

In Europe, people have to travel to other countries to see the different topographies and in the US, we don’t.

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Weekly Letter: Feedback
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Weekly Letter: Feedback

We already had quite a few gentle offerings and I was wondering if there wasn't a demand for something more challenging.

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Weekly Letter: Creative Work
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Weekly Letter: Creative Work

I recently shifted my personal schedule to support a habit I’ve neglected and wanted to nurture in a different way.

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Weekly Letter: Checking things off
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Weekly Letter: Checking things off

I’m getting ready to leave on a trip and it never fails to amazing me how many things I can cram into a week to get ready to leave. What if I worked like this all the time?

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Weekly Letter: Remembering Names
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Weekly Letter: Remembering Names

more than a few would say, ‘Oh, I’m terrible with names, I’ll never remember it.’ They might as well be saying, ‘You’re not worth remembering.’

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