Consumption: Week 3 of No Paper Cups and Hiking Yoga | The Interdependence Project
April 18th, 2012 § Leave a Comment
How are you enjoying April so far, my dharma friends?
It’s week three of IDP’s Responsible Consumption month and my fellow bloggers’ posts have been entertaining and inspiring. My pledge to refrain from using paper cups and single use plastics has been going swimmingly. My pledge to open an account at a credit union…. not so much.
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Consumption: Week 2 of No Paper Cups and Joining a Credit Union | The Interdependence Project
April 10th, 2012 § Leave a Comment
Alright, here we go… week 2 of responsible consumption month. Paper cups used: 0
Yay!
Credit Unions joined: 0
Boo!
Kindness practiced: lots
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Consumption: Week 1 of No Paper Cups and Joining a Credit Union | The Interdependence Project
April 4th, 2012 § Leave a Comment
For IDP’s Responsible Consumption Month we are committing to working mindfully with the momentum of our consumption habits and each choose specific areas of focus. Here is my pledge:
• For the month of April I will be mindful of using paper cups, “to-go” containers and plastic bags. Also I will open an account with a credit union so that my money is managed by a non-profit member-run financial institution rather than a for-profit Wall-Street-run banking corporation.
• I am doing this to engage more deeply with the concept of Right Action in my daily life.
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Organizing a Yogi: The Magic Ingredient | The Interdependence Project
March 20th, 2012 § Leave a Comment
The word of the day is kindness. It’s the magic ingredient for creating stress-free productivity. Kindness is portable, fast-acting and incredibly efficient. Got a case of the doldrums? Feeling overwhelmed? Depressed about the state of the world? Try kindness!
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Organizing a Yogi: At the Starting Line | The Interdependence Project
March 13th, 2012 § Leave a Comment
This yogi is not organized. Not yet! But I am beginning to develop confidence that such a feat is possible, that I can get my act together. I can get and, perhaps more importantly, stay organized.
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Organizing a Yogi: Discipline | The Interdependence Project
March 6th, 2012 § Leave a Comment
Welcome to my new column: Organizing a Yogi at TheIDProject!
I’ll be the first to admit I have a problem with discipline. Maybe you know what I mean. When I know I need to work on an essay my hand is glued to the remote control and I’m inexplicably watching incredible feats of hair and make-up. Or I have an hour to prepare for a yoga class I’m teaching and…
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28-Day Meditation Challenge: Day 28, Keep It Going | The Interdependence Project
February 28th, 2012 § 1 Comment
As we come to the end of February and the end of the 28-Day Meditation Challenge I am thinking about techniques to keep the practice going and alive in our daily lives. As Sharon Salzberg writes in the final chapter Keeping the Practice Going the main point is “just put your body there”. Assuming the meditation posture, upright, heart lifted, sits bones grounded, relaxed and alert, is often the most challenging aspect of a regular practice. But once you’re there, the rest just flows.
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28-Day Meditation Challenge: Day 21, Infatuation
February 21st, 2012 § Leave a Comment
I’m infatuated… and I can’t think of anything else but the object of my obsession, er… I mean, affection. Even writing this post is troublesome as all I want to do is spend time with my sweetheart, to treasure the joy, pain, decorum and restraint of our time together. It’s new, it’s thrilling, it’s wondrous, it’s… a TV show.
But not just any TV show, it’s a beautiful brilliant British TV show called Downton Abbey. It has me enthralled with its wit, sex appeal, intrigue, politics, loyalty and valor. When we are together…
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Urban Sangha Project at Occupy Town Square
February 14th, 2012 § 1 Comment
On February 11th Occupy Town Square at the West Park Presbyterian Church on west 86th St brought together activists young and old, seasoned veterans and newcomers, Marxists, anarchists, socialists, bloggers, screen-printers, dreamers, and me. Walking in I found myself unexpectedly incredibly moved by the atmosphere of camaraderie and, dare I say it, family. It felt so good to be together again in solidarity, occupying the same space, with my brothers and sisters in this struggle for a more peaceful and just world. Occupy Town Square was the easy relaxed conversation and sharing that we’d been missing since Mayor Bloomberg’s brutal eviction of OWS from the grounds of Liberty Plaza (Zuccotti Park).
Food from the People’s Kitchen! Books from the People’s Library! Performances on the People’s Stage! Think Tank. Dancing. Yelly person yelling. And so much more. It was like being back in the park but indoors! It was truly beautiful.
We met awesome new people and reconnected with old friends as Booker and I passed around flyers for the Urban Sangha Project’s new Thursday afternoon class called Sustainable Activism. It’s a 90 minute class that includes yoga, meditation and dialogue.
Sustainable Activism: Yoga and Meditation Class from the Urban Sangha Project
in affinity with the Meditation Working Group of Occupy Wall Street
Join us on Thursdays at noon for an hour and a half of yoga, meditation and dialogue to express and celebrate our work as Change Makers. These classes are a way to get support, release tension, create community and to find some balance so that there is sustainability in their activism.
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