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Burlington Yoga Conference

 

 

I am excited to announce that I will be teaching a Yin Yoga and meditation workshop at the first annual Burlington Yoga Conference May 2 at UVM’s Davis Center.  Please join the yoga community for a day of workshops and celebration.  Learn more and register at the BYC website.

the future past is now.

While still enjoying some clear thinking as a result of meditating for seven days in silence I thought why spend so much time revisiting the past, which I cannot change, when each moment I am creating a new past and in the moment of now, I have some choice.  ”Pay attention Emily” I thought as this moment is the future past. There are many opportunities to pay attention to your body and mind in the next coming weeks.  A three week Core yoga session begins tonight and I will be teaching  a two hour Restorative class a week from Sunday. … Continue Reading

on retreat

I will return to the world of the web after February 21.  While I am away, Alice Nieley will sub all of my classes.  Thank you Alice.

photos from january’s snoga retreat in the white mountains

 

Edward Abbey on the ordinary.

I recently re-visited Edward Abbey’s book of letters. I appreciate his irreverent honesty and deep connection with nature. On June 18, 1984 he wrote to Karen Evans:

“I no longer have much interest in the supernatural, or what is mistakenly referred to as ‘mystical’ events and experience. That kind of search belongs to the youthful stage of life, both in the individual and in the race. I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and the tangible.

For example: one … Continue Reading