January 2012
3 posts
Origin of Nudity. →
“The body is the origin of our physical presentation in the world. It is good, like a baby is good.”
It's a Party in My Yoga Pants! →
Why pelvic floor yoga @ ElephantJournal.com
http://rootwisdomyoga.com/2012/01/03/setting-root-w... →
Red rivers shamelessly flow at Root Wisdom Yoga!
December 2011
5 posts
'Twas the night before my pelvis workshop and all... →
Here comes Susie Pelvis… →
…dressed in her snow-white gown. Tap. Tap. Tappin’ at your window pane…
I'm dreaming of a white pelvis… →
Oh holy pelvis! The stars are brightly shining… →
“Women’s rights: HIV thrives on gender inequalities that keep women from...”
– http://www.womensenews.org/story/hivaids/111130/hillarys-aids-plan-missed-key-idea-women
November 2011
25 posts
“The anatomy of the pelvic bowl will be discussed, as well as how to most...”
– Brooks Hall, ‘Pelvic Empowerment’ workshop. http://brookshall.blogspot.com/2011/11/pelvic-empowerment-yoga-workshop-with.html
“…the theories which guided the doctor’s practice from the late nineteenth...”
– Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English, ‘For Her Own Good’
“The pelvis holds some of our most precious, sacred and embarrassing stories. It...”
– Brooks Hall, from ‘Pelvic Empowerment’ workshop description. http://brookshall.blogspot.com/2011/11/pelvic-empowerment-yoga-workshop-with.html
“May you have faith in your worth and act with wisdom.”
– Yogi Tea
“Science was able to become a neo-religion because of its special qualities as an...”
– Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English, ‘For Her Own Good’
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We only have today. Let us begin.”
– Mother Teresa
“Healing cannot be made discrete and tangible; it involves too many little...”
– Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English, ‘For Her Own Good’
The Guest House
This being human is a guest house
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness
some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows
who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture.
Still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out for some new delight.
~Rumi, as translated by...
“…study found the conventional wisdom that feminism and romance are opposing...”
– Samhita Mukhopadhyay, ‘Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life’
“Woman’s psyche, of course, becomes an acknowledged scientific enigma, like...”
– ‘For Her Own Good’ by Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English
“Everything that seems uniquely female becomes a challenge to the rational...”
– ‘For Her Own Good’ by Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English
“Science had once attacked entrenched authority, but the new scientific expert...”
– ‘For Her Own Good’ by Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English
Full Moon Cosmic Story →
” At this full moon, we stand at that moment before death when we see what we have chosen to believe is important in life. Look deeply at what you value and decide if it’s still important to you. If it is, conserve it; if it’s not, let it go — let it die. “
“By the time we’re twelve or so, society has convinced the vast majority of...”
– Inga Muscio
““As parents,” says Michelle Obama, “it breaks our hearts to...”
– Donna Brazile, ‘Ms.’ summer 2011
I Love the Female Orgasm →
“Society in general is so focused on ‘pleasing your man’ (magazines, TV, etc.) and male-focused sexuality. It was liberating to hear about something that I can relate to as a woman.”
“Do you believe in yourself? Do you believe in your existence? Are you here or...”
– B.K.S. Iyengar, ‘The Tree of Yoga’
Whose Vagina Is It, Anyway? →
“I am sometimes asked whether it is necessary for a yoga practitioner to believe...”
– B.K.S. Iyengar, ‘The Tree ofYoga’
“The likelihood that incarcerated people will be raped seems to be taken as an...”
– http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2011/10/24/the-awful-truth-about-womens-lives-in-prison/
“Consider the sky. The sky is finite as well as infinite. None can touch it, yet...”
– B.K.S. Iyengar, ‘The Tree ofYoga’
“If the Lovers can get beyond traditional sex-role stereotypes and culturally...”
– Karen Vogel and Vicki Noble, Motherpeace Round Tarot instructions
“She was dowsing for film classics with her nervous system as a guide.”
– Nathan Heller, on Pauline Kael, ‘The New Yorker’ October 24, 2011
October 2011
36 posts
“Intuition” was a gooseflesh-raising word in this context—it still is in...”
– Nathan Heller, ‘The New Yorker’ October 24, 2011
“No judgement, no praise, no criticism—just words on a page—that let me see...”
– Bruce Black, ‘Writing Yoga’, see my review… http://www.elephantjournal.com/2011/10/on-writing-yoga-honoring-teachers-and-having-fun-on-the-path/
“If it’s true that eighty per cent of life is showing up, I think the other...”
– Bill Keller, quoted in ‘The New Yorker’ October 24, 2011
Don't tell others about your goals... →
“For large and slow-to-reproduce mammals like humans, such a growth curve is, to...”
– Elizabeth Kolbert, ‘The New Yorker’ October 24, 2011, p 21
“A journal is another prop—like a block, a belt, a blanket—for you to use in your...”
– Bruce Black, ‘Writing Yoga’, See my review of the book: http://www.elephantjournal.com/2011/10/on-writing-yoga-honoring-teachers-and-having-fun-on-the-path/
“…we can work together toward a new century in which men and women truly have...”
– Mary Pipher, Ph.D, ‘Reviving Ophelia’
“We need to rebuild the media so that its values are not antagonistic to the...”
– Mary Pipher, Ph.D, ‘Reviving Ophelia’
“Our society teaches that sex, alcohol and purchasing power lead to the good...”
– Mary Pipher, Ph.D, ‘Reviving Ophelia’
“The ways the media have dehumanized sex and fostered violence should be the...”
– Mary Pipher, Ph.D, ‘Reviving Ophelia’
“Adolescent girls need a more public place in our culture, not as sex objects but...”
– Mary Pipher, Ph.D, ‘Reviving Ophelia’
“…rejection gave them a protected space in which they could develop their...”
– Mary Pipher, Ph.D, ‘Reviving Ophelia’
“Androgynous parents are the best. Good fathers are nurturing, physically...”
– Mary Pipher, Ph.D, ‘Reviving Ophelia’
“Margaret Mead defines strength as valuing all those parts of the self whether or...”
– Mary Pipher, Ph.D, ‘Reviving Ophelia’
“Resistance means vigilance in protecting one’s own spirit from the forces...”
– Mary Pipher, Ph.D, ‘Reviving Ophelia’
If you love the women in your life, tell them... →
A workshop for women in Chicago about the female pelvic floor with Leslie Howard.