The annual pendulum keeps swinging – gluttonous to ascetic, ascetic to gluttonous. Each year, with the drop of a ball, we collectively flip over from one to the other, the advertisers having pre-primed their messages like the dependable prophets they are. When we are in ascetic mode, we having diets and gyms on the brain,…
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Fandom Mindscape Meditation Flow
One of my favorite moments in any sort of fandom comes when a mindscape is depicted – when someone’s internal mental processes are revealed through visuals or words. These scenes almost always feel strange and unhinged, like a dream, while also relatable. It’s bizarre but intriguing that these mindscapes feel more alien to us than…
Check out, not off, your boxes: Sukhasana pose
In the immortal words of Buffy the Vampire Slayer – are you just going through the motions? She sang about going through the motions when she was kind of meant to be dead but wasn’t (so, really immortal words). Those of us very much alive, however, sometimes do the same. Obviously there are a number…
Why do yoga? To travel to the Wood between the Worlds
Loving the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is a fairly universal phenomeon, I think. Solid quaint British writing + fanciful characters + a solid allegory = a winner, unless you are one of the non-religious people who didn’t realize the direct religious tie-in’s and then felt a bit duped. In any case, anyone who…
The crucial quiet of Matilda and yoga
The absence of sound has always scared me. It has always seemed to imply the absence of other things to do – of connection, of energy, of things happening and people talking and the world moving. It can seem like the Veil in Doctor Who’s episode “Heaven Sent,” lurking behind every action we take, every…