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Your Sankalpa
For many people, New Year’s resolutions may start strong, but then either fizzle or die within months. And yet, there’s something kind of cool about the concept of a fresh start with a new [...]
Addressing Trauma
As the Director of a trauma-informed yoga teacher training, I’m grateful that awareness about trauma is on the rise. There was a time when the general social attitude was that a person simply needed [...]
How do you become a yoga teacher?
Don’t “train” to be a yoga teacher. Start by finding your personal inspiration. To train is defined by Mariam-Webster as: A) to teach so as to make fit, qualified, or proficient, or B) to [...]
3 most simple and profound alignment cues for in person and on Zoom
A large part of being a successful yoga professional is knowing how to cue in a way that clear, concise and meaningful. It was easier (although not simple) when people were in the room [...]
Letting Go – A Transformation Blog by Dana Reece
I. The Mind’s Destructive Games
I'd been on the table for half an hour before I started to cry. And even then, it wasn't a sob or sound of any sort, neither something I welcomed nor attempted to suppress. [...]
II. Letting Go of What No Longer Serves Us
It wasn't all that long after suddenly realizing I wasn't doing the things I wanted to do in life all that often, making a list of those things, putting fairly diligent awareness on them [...]
III. The Body as Practice
Recently, in Letting Go of What No Longer Serves Us, I shared about trying things a little differently as a way to spark growth and change. After ripping every article of clothing I have [...]
IV. The Benefits of Ignoring Conventional Wisdom
Today I did what everyone says not to do. It is one month until Halloween, and I bought a Halloween dress that is so tight that dancing will not be an option for me [...]
V. The Destructive Power of the Papers We Keep
Today, I am burning things. It is not particularly cold out, but I am burning things anyway. Marie Kondo style, I am "ninjaing" through the paperwork in my house that neither brings me joy [...]
VI. Do Your Possessions Reveal Your Fears?
I am struck by how many things I have done and kept in my life in anticipation that a bad thing might happen. Just take a moment and ask yourself, how much of what you [...]
VII: The Life-Changing Benefits of Eating with Awareness
In addition to the clutter clearing rampage I've been on in my house, I mentioned earlier on that I had decided to take on a fitness challenge. Basically, a few injuries and a few [...]
VIII: The Power of Letting Go of Expectations
Ah, transformation. What is it, really? For me, it turns out that it is letting go. When I started this personal transformation blogging exploration, what I said I wanted to see was how to [...]
IX: On Raising a Son Who will Never Walk or Talk
Sometimes, everything I've been through as a single parent raising two children, one of whom is very disabled, hits me hard. Usually, it happens when I see another parent wielding a wheelchair with a [...]