Santosa: A Holiday Niyama

This time of year carries a lot of stress for many people. The cultivation of santosa can help us handle both the crazy times and the alone times. . . . → Read More: Santosa: A Holiday Niyama

See What May Was Like!

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Holiday Yoga

This is the season. Snow is falling. Holiday social commitments are filling up the calendar and somehow, in the tiny cracks of time between them and work, there is gift shopping to do and a life to run.

Little Sparrow Coping with the Snow!

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It’s Winter, but the dedicated still make it to yoga class!

Here’s a little inspiration: students on their way to yoga class in the midst of a snow storm!

Devoted Yoga Students!

Those who live in milder climes really miss out on magic!

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Yoga by a Northern Lake

A woman I’ve admired for many years, Cash Luck, invited me to her cabin this fall. It’s been a long time since I’ve been in the North woods, so I was glad to go.

We took a boat ride around the lake.

We went for a walk in the woods

Cash tried out an old Tractor.

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Something Tells Me It’s All Happening at the Zoo!

With any luck, as we practice yoga, we are able to just sink into the moment and just be. Our primate relatives are already there!

Doesn't need to keep cool. IS cool!

The Orangutan doing a balance pose.

Giraffe

Is this a stork? Couldn't find the sign.

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Are You Hot Enough Yet?

I’m reminded that however miserable I might be in the heat and humidity, nature is luxuriating in it.

But you and I can take the cooling breath and maybe handle the heat a bit better. The explanation follows the photo.

The important part is the shape of the tongue! If you are unable to shape your tongue . . . → Read More: Are You Hot Enough Yet?

My Best Cell Phone Photo

It isn’t the highest quality camera, but if you get close enough and your subject doesn’t move . . .

This fine fellow was on the door screen at Nokomis Yoga as I was leaving after class. Literally, the cell phone was two inches from him/her.

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Beauty of a rainy day

Flowers along the abandoned road being visited by wasps:

A little fellow I have never seen before:

The abandoned road unabandoned by nature:

New totem pole beside an old path:

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Some of the Perfection in the World

Photos of early summer perfection. . . . → Read More: Some of the Perfection in the World