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Yoga Hikes

Sybil — Sun, 27 May 2012 16:01:56 +0000

Join Sybil for guided yoga and hiking at Beaver Creek State Park on Sundays at 10am, June 3rd and 10th. Go to Joyful Bliss Yoga to sign up and for more information, including directions.

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Yoga Aid World Challenge USA

Sybil — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:12:00 +0000

20+ countries • 200+ events • 20,000+ Yogis • September 9, 2012

Help us raise $1 million for charities around the world. Every dollar you can give will make a real difference! It will also inspire others to give too! Thank you, in advance, for your generosity and kindness!

Visit my page to donate: yogaaid.com/sybilmerriman

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What is Karma?

Sybil — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:57:29 +0000

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We have all heard the phrase “You reap what you sow.” Central to yogic thought is the law of karma, the law of universal causality, the idea that for every action there is a reaction. We create our future with our thoughts and actions. Discussed in the Bhagavad Gita and the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, one of the paths to union is karma yoga, the yoga of action. Offering selfless service to others is a way to bring a personal practice off the mat and into the world. By acting without thought of gain or reward one may purify the heart and sublimate the ego.

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An Appetite for the Unknown

Sybil — Sun, 15 May 2011 23:39:15 +0000

I first discovered yoga as a student at Tulane University. I went to Alvina’s beautiful yoga studio on Oak Street in New Orleans and immediately fell in love. The room was crowded with sweaty strangers, and interesting human sounds and foreign music could be heard as we breathed in seemingly unnatural ways and contorted our bodies (or tried, anyway) into oddly-named and weird-looking positions. And then we rested on the floor for ten minutes pretending we were dead. This was nothing like anything I had ever done before, but I will never forget the complete physical exhaustion I experienced complemented by feelings of relaxation, serenity and energy that lasted for hours after class. “Blissed out” was what I later learned to call it. Ten o’clock on Saturday morning was a mighty early and difficult time to muster up the will power (or shrug off the hangover) for a girl who had recently let her hair down from Catholic high school to embark upon an in-depth study of how really enjoy the Big Easy. Needless to say, I didn’t attend class as often as I would have liked.

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