The Root Chakra – Muladhara

Dear friends💜 This story by Colleen Saidman Yee, is about rooting and grounding: “I remember one day asking [my mom] why she was sad, and she said, “I miss my trees.”“Trees?” I thought. “After everything we’d lost, you miss trees?”My mom loved trees, especially old maples. And, though my first thought was sassy, I knew

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Who Are You

Dear friends💜 As some of you may know, I am a student again in an advanced yoga teacher training program. In the course about the brain we received a recommendation to watch a Ted Talk by Jill Bolte Taylor who is a neuroanatomist and author of My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey.

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Freedom and Discipline

Dear friends💜 In preparation for Passover, the holiday that represents freedom. A journey from bondage to liberation I was thinking what freedom really is. Does freedom mean we get to do whatever we wish, whenever we wish? Is freedom the ultimate goal or just a means to find happiness? In my understanding freedom correlates with

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Go to the Self

  Dear friends! In the Jewish tradition, this week’s reading of the Torah, was from the book of Genesis 12:1-3: “Now the Lord said to Abram, ‘Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and

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