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Is Online Yoga For You?
Soozie Kinstler Soozie Kinstler

Is Online Yoga For You?

Even though the teacher’s voice is guiding you, you are showing up for you. Period. Establishing that resource of commitment within will only feed other areas of your life and serve you over time.

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Wood Element-Hope in One’s Path
Soozie Kinstler Soozie Kinstler

Wood Element-Hope in One’s Path

My outward expression and character are the Wood Element personified. It is parts of myself that I have trouble accepting: loud, intense, pushy, demanding. I wanted to transform my perception of the wood element…

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Awaken the Heart/Mind-Bodhichitta
Soozie Kinstler Soozie Kinstler

Awaken the Heart/Mind-Bodhichitta

How do we open our hearts to a world full of hate and suffering? The Buddhist tradition has some recommendations. One foundation of Buddhist thought is that everything in reality within an individual and in the world is in constant flux and change. The reason we suffer…

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Renewal and Appreciating Beauty
Soozie Kinstler Soozie Kinstler

Renewal and Appreciating Beauty

Beauty as a form of meditation in life can take many shapes. Connect to nature and practice expanding your periphery, as if breathing with your skin, taking in all the colors and sounds.

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Water Element and Wu Wei (Effortless Action)
Soozie Kinstler Soozie Kinstler

Water Element and Wu Wei (Effortless Action)

Five Element Chinese Medicine and Qi Gong have taught me to be like nature by witnessing them through the seasons. I am pleased to say this is the first winter of my whole life (I grew up in Colorado even though I left for a decade) that I fell in love with the Winter season.

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Steadiness in a Consistent (Yoga) Practice 
Soozie Kinstler Soozie Kinstler

Steadiness in a Consistent (Yoga) Practice 

In this conversation, we explore the power of consistency and routine when it comes to stepping on our mats.

As the essential self-care, yoga draws us into our physical, energetic, spiritual, and mind practices.

In this post, we explore: The three qualifications of Practice

  1. Time

  2. Without breaking

  3. Sincerity, devotion, earnestness

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Power in Practice
Soozie Kinstler Soozie Kinstler

Power in Practice

The Practice of Yoga brings people together in a safe, sacred exploration of form—forms of the mind, body, and breath.

In this post we explore:

  • A Discovery of Self

  • The Science of Yoga and the Art of Intention

  • Accessing the State of Yoga

  • Living Your Unique Yoga

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Release Resistance
Soozie Kinstler Soozie Kinstler

Release Resistance

The definition of resistance is “the act or power of resisting, opposing, or withstanding. The opposition offered by one thing, force, etc., to another.”

In psychiatry, it is opposition to an attempt to bring repressed thoughts or feelings into consciousness.” Resistance is something I feel often.

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