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
- Things I Don't Have on Nov 24, 2009 in American Idol John Muir Gram Parsons Clifton Fadiman Thanksgiving Berkshire leaves
John Muir once declared that he was better off than the magnate E. H. Harriman. “I have all the money I want,” Muir exclaimed, “and he hasn’t.”Clifton FadimanA thief can only steal from you, he cannot break your heart....Gram Parsons...Than...
- Dogs (Three Different Ones) on Nov 22, 2009 in yoga Thelonious Monk downward facing dog dogsitting John Coltrane dogs hiking Walt Whitman meditation
...what often happens when hiking with human friends is I’ll get a cool idea...like hey, let’s bushwhack through those pricker bushes, across that swamp, and up that rockslide...only to meet with sardonic responses like huh?! or what?! or why the...
- 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...
