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1/1 A Year-End Assessment as Beautiful as the Flowers
A YEAR-END ASSESSMENT AS BEAUTIFUL AS THE FLOWERS Dear Friends, Yogis, and Travelers on Many Paths, Happy New Year! Here’s a big thank you for being part of our Evolutionary Yoga Flow community in 2018. I’ve been enjoying my vacation, spending more time with loved ones, finishing up projects, and doing a year-end review and charting out new goals for 2019. 2018 was in some ways a hard, heart-breaking year, and yet it was also
...read more12/13 The Ancient Tree of Life
KONA, HAWAII – All around the Earth near the time of Winter Solstice, the Tree of Life is renewed in ceremonies, services, parties, and candle-lightings. When people come together to celebrate the longest night of the year, we share the message of this joyful time, which is to love one another. We celebrate the return of the sun – the birth of the son — with merry singing and dancing. Hawai’i’s Makahiki, Africa’s Kwanzaa, the
...read more10/31 MAKE AMERICA KIND AGAIN
Namaste, Friends, Yogis, and Cultural Creatives! Last week, I wrote to you about the Tree of Life, which we climb like our ancestors before us, upward, sideways, and even down sometimes. Little did I know how far down we would go in just a few days, and that this week we would be mourning the loss of life at another Tree of Life, a synagogue in Pittsburgh. The Tree of Life is the same one.
...read more10/14 Power Within & Yoga's 8 Limbs
On the amazing Tree of Life, we climb like our ancestors before us, upward, sideways, and even down sometimes to step carefully on stable limbs and hold branches to steady ourselves in this quantum leaping world. It’s crucial to know where the limbs and handholds are, and what helpers and metaphorical demons we may face each step of the way. That’s why during our full-body asana classes on Mondays between now and Christmas, we’re immersing
...read more10/8 ON OUR WATCH - Climate Change, #MeToo, & the Patriarchy
We live in an era of firsts, and also a time of lasts. The last days we are witnessing are the ones we can still use — before it could be too late — to stem catastrophic climate change. Floods, fires, and hurricanes have all increased in the last ten years, all of which were predicted by scientists. They just didn’t think it would be so soon. They have now set 2030 as the threshold
...read more10/1 Art in Bali - Remembering to Remember
I was working on my Ph. D. in Creative Arts when I first visited Bali, the tiny island in Indonesia where, it’s said, the gods spend their vacation. Studying the practical psychology of liberation through the arts, I arose every morning at dawn, walked out to the sun-drenched wooden platform overlooking the Java Sea, and began my morning yoga practice. It was 1986, long before Yoga in Bali became a commercial goldmine, and it was
...read more8/7 We're All in the Same Double-Hulled Canoe | Ten Jewels of Wisdom from Hawaii
This glowing portrait of Hale Kealohalani Makua is by artist Kathy Long. You can view this and Kathy’s other inspired paintings like Hula Sisters, Pohakulani, Three Kahunas, and other tropical wonders at her website www.KathyLongArtist.com. ———————————————- NOW TAKE A DEEP BREATH OF ALOHA! Now consider this: as Earthlings, we are all metaphorically in the same canoe. We have one planet, one Spaceship. Nowhere is the feeling of our need to work together in harmony for
...read more7/29 Yoga with Hawaiian Perspectives: The Magic & Mana'o of Transformation
A New Twist on an Ancient Art & Science University of Hawaii at Palamanui Community College Have you wanted to discover the magic of Yoga and the mana’o of indigenous traditions? Is this the year for you to broaden your horizons and expand your aliveness by engaging the yogic arts and sciences, Hawaiian wisdom, and Polynesian and Asian practices for transformation? Every class in this evolutionary course features powerful principles, sacred tools, and ancestral teachings
...read more6/25 Bucky & the World Game | Best Dreams
Aloha, Friends! What is your best dream for the world? Remember the World Game that Buckminster Fuller envisioned back in the 1980s? The Earth would be a dymaxion playroom where people came, competed, and cooperated, to: “Make the world work, for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.” What would the 21st Century version of Bucky’s World Game be, considering how people in
...read more6/18 Illuminating Joy | Summer Body Wisdom Yoga Series
KUNDALINI, YOGA, AND BALANCING YOUR MANY CHAKRAS – Mondays, July 2 – August 14, 5:00 – 6:30 pm Your body is already perfect, and yet Kundalini, the Subtle Bodies, and Hatha Yoga practices of asana and pranayama can both empower and enlighten your journey to recharge, rejuvenate, and reimagine yourself from the inside out. Ancient yoga masters imagined the central channel of the body, the Sushumna, as a brilliant thread, strung with seven lotuses. As
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Spirit of Hawaii -- YOGA IN PARADISE
Breathe. Balance. Blossom. Living Arts Journeys guide you to the Heart of Hawaii Island. Experience Quantum Healing, Hawaiian Sacred Sites, Yoga Dance and Gentle and Therapeutic Yoga with Dr. Marya Mann. CLICK HERE for YOGA IN HAWAII DETAILS
