While listlessly surfing the web, distracted by the boiling political soup of the day, I came across the following quote that struck me as so true: "In a real sense all life is interrelated, all human...
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More graphics than you may want to see of my torn meniscus, but I couldn't resist. Photo courtesy Dr. Graeter Today is the first day in which I've been able to string two sentences together. I had my ...
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I got a second opinion on my knee injury about a month ago and decided to have orthopedic surgery with Dr. James Graeter because he's on my health insurance network and that will hold down costs. Afte...
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It's hard for me to fathom how I could have gone a whole month without writing here, after practically four years of steady commentary on my personal practice and the happenings of yoga in America and...
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I have not been blogging recently. Too many things imposing priorities on my life, plus the Democratic convention in which Barack Obama was confirmed as the presidential nominee. If you look at my blo...
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In New York Times Magazine On Language - Namaste, a yoga teacher and writer Jaimie Epstein gives a primer of the Sanskrit that creeps in the vocabulary of people willing to get on the yoga mat. Guru m...
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I sought out a conversation with Pierre Couvillion, a wandering yoga instructor and bodyworker, about my knee injury. Pierre has been filling some teaching holes at Thrive Yoga due to the August vacat...
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It's now confirmed: I have a torn meniscus that requires surgery. The debris poses a medium-term risk to the integrity of the knee, and Dr. Connell recommends cleaning up the knee by the end of the ye...
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I saw an orthopaedist today, Dr. Mark Connell at Washington Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine. The appointment served to rule out arthritis and bone chips or other fragments in my knee. I wasX-rayed fo...
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Back in late June, I mentioned that I had been offered a chance to join Gaiam Yoga Club. After a slow start due to a hectic schedule, I have started to follow the program on a daily basis and have now...
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I woke up this morning and felt a big relief in my knee. The relief of tension that I had felt yesterday after treatment had continued after a night's rest. Yesterday, I was really sore, and felt tire...
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Acupuncture chart from Hua Shou (fl. 1340s, Ming Dynasty). This image from Shi si jing fa hui (Expression of the Fourteen Meridians). (Tokyo : Suharaya Heisuke kanko, Kyoho gan 1716). Courtesy of Wiki...
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My previous entry about my nagging knee injury brought two comforting comments: Mary suggested that I see a sports specialist/orthopedist, and Melissa mentioned that a yoga therapist might help and po...
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For the past week, I have not done any running, jogging or used elliptical trainer, or other gym equipment. The only yoga has been some light, simple stuff at home, except for a Flow I class with my d...
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Chicago Tribuine Bikram: The McDonald's of yoga?interviews Bikram Choudhury about his brand of hot yoga:"On some days, I can see why Choudhury’s tightly controlled empire of 500 certified yoga studios...
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Following up on my blog entry about the Wall Street Journal article on yoga and high finance, there was an angle that I did not notice initially. The Columbia Journalism Review calls Tina Gaudoin and ...
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This week's multimedia selection is Audio Archives of Tara Brach's Dharma talks at the Insight Meditation Community of Washington (IMCW) here in Washington, DC.Each week there is a 40-60 minute talk a...
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Today's Wall Street Journal published Yoga Bears: It's No Stretch to Say Traders Are Taking Deep Breaths on the front page. The article explains how financiers, traders and hedge fund managers are see...
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I've been taking some class of Forest Yoga from Christine Peterson at Thrive Yoga. So I was bouncing around my usual surfing points and came across an audio interview with Ana Forest herself at Yoga P...
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For the past week, I have been concentrating on getting priority tasks done at home. They had been piling up since I got back from Spain, and I really needed to focus on them. I had to force myself ov...
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