YogaforCynics
Blog URL http://yogaforcynics.blogspot.com
Located Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
Tags Yoga, Cynicism, Poetry, Philosophy, Life, Music, Pondering, Spirituality, Agnosticism
Cynicism is about closing, yoga is about opening...I think humor might be a bridge between the two...
Latest Blog Posts
- Morning Haze on Nov 17, 2009 in snowbeing yoga class Morning Haze loneliness Claude Monet thinking about thinking asana Kripalu
been thinking aboutthinking about thinking, andwinter’s coming soon...Massachusetts was a lot colder than Philly’s been so far this fall...saw some snow on the mountaintops driving in, as well as remains of a snowman...or snowperson...snowbeing..
- The Highly Prestigious and Karmically Significant Floating Glowing Being of Pure Love Award on Nov 13, 2009 in International House of Yoga karmically significant lovingkindness yoga blogs competitive yoga blog love locust pose yoga in Canada
...before getting this post started, I think I need to say something about a controversy currently raging on other blogs with yoga in their titles...that is, the highly acrimonious subject of competitive yoga...which, to many, is a bit of an oxymoron...
- Seriously Pushing the Boundaries of Acceptable Outthereness on Nov 11, 2009 in yoga radical acceptance Tara Brach Fargo really really intense experiences setting an intention grumpy yoga students mindfulness Kripalu bullshit positive affirmation
If you can start the day without caffeine or pep pills,If you can be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles,If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it,If you can unders...
- From the Muddy Shore of Lake Mahkeenac (Autumn Rivulet #4) on Nov 8, 2009 in yoga retreat walking through walls getting lost Lake Mahkeenac hiking Kripalu
...picnic table on the muddy shore of Lake Mahkeenac...water rippling grey, below gray skies...so many shades of grey...enough, I think, to make a distinction between gray and grey almost meaningful...though the specifics are rather gray....always so...
- Autumn Rivulets 2 & 3 on Nov 4, 2009 in indifference standard plot world series unfinished life haiku autumn rivulets shingles moss
...keep finding myself in conversations like this:Complete stranger: Whadja think o’ [somebody who apparently plays baseball] in the seventh last night?Me: Uh...he was great...Complete stranger: Whaddaya mean great?! That douchebag mighta cost us t...
- Autumn Rivulet #1 on Oct 30, 2009 in here and now cool autumn breeze Jon Kabat-Zinn meditating haiku autumn rivulets Autumn breathing Van Morrison enlightenment
I’m in the here and now and I’m meditating, andstill I’m sufferin’, but that’s my problem...Van Morrison...as long as you’re breathing, there’s more right with you than wrong with you...Jon Kabat-Zinnfelt a cool autumnbreeze upon waking...
- Notes from a Postmodern Yogi...Bear on Oct 27, 2009 in N Scott Momaday Bears Stephen Colbert Bear Mountain Lyle Lovett Tuolumne Meadows A A Milne Winnie the Pooh Appalachian Trail Andy Warhol yogi bear Four Pandas grunge look Tao of Pooh
...always been a big guy...bit on the hairy side...kinda slow and lumbering...with a sweet tooth...and a grouchy temper....have been referred to as that big lumberjack guy...but, far more often, as a bear...uso, in Spanish....apparently, if I were ga...
