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The “freedom” people talk about attaining through yoga is now completely literal, with a program in India that lets inmates out a little sooner if they develop a regular yoga practice. As gleaned from Boing Boing, every three months of yoga training reduces a prisoner’s sentence by 15 days in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.  According to a…

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“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for.And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.” ~Barbara Kingsolver

Last night a yoga teacher dropped a beautiful word that landed on my ears soft as snow: quiesence. Without even knowing exactly what it meant I instantly loved it, I think because it sounds like Quiet + Essence And means, essentially that. From Webster’s: “Etymology: Latin quiescent-, quiescens, present participle of quiescere to become quiet,…
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