Author: cricket85
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Looking at Life from different Angles
Nature by itself does not have too many angles. It has curves. Humans have used the angle to create and have placed it everywhere. The greatest cities in the world are replete with angles. Most great architecture is composed of angles. There is an element of the divine when you look up and the eye…
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The texture of memories
One of the recent wordpress.com weekly photography challenges was “texture.” I like the idea of texture in a photo so I gathered the photos that I thought exhibited texture. There were several dozen of them but I kept coming back to half a dozen of them. They were far from being the best ones for…
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The Room is Silent but for…
My friend Donna L and I are Tai Chi players. We are of the same age group and we started learning this art form together. We both struggle with the forms but find that we are enticed by its invitation to come back again and again to be seduced by its beauty and its mystery.…
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What to say when guiding students in yoga poses
The last post discussed how to move into a pose using simple clear language as a guide. Today I would like to talk about what you say after you have guided your students into a pose. This is the phase that I think about as carving your way into the pose. The choice of words…
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Yoga Movement Formula
Back to Yoga Teacher Talk Yoga movements occur at different levels. On one level the poses transition from from one position in space to another, For example, we can move from a supine (on the back) position to table position or from a seated position to a belly down orientation. Mountain Pose (tadasana), table pose (bharmanasana), sphinx…
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