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MindBody Connection

carolyn aka LaughingYogini | September 30, 2008

Alternative medicine often refers to the mind-body connection. But what does it really mean? How are our minds linked to our bodies? Is this even possible?
In this culture, we’re all taught a very powerful message that separates the mind from the body. The body is usually considered subordinate to the mind, as in “Mind Over [...]

Panterrra Pre-Natal Yoga Workshop

carolyn aka LaughingYogini | September 28, 2008

Saturday morning, I wondered what I was doing in a pre-natal yoga workshop; after all, I hadn’t had a pregnant woman in class for at least one year. Furthermore, my own pregnancies were more than 22 years ago! Something inside nagged me to attend the workshop though, and one thing I’ve learned from my years [...]

Yoga Month

carolyn aka LaughingYogini | September 26, 2008

For those of us who still live in linear or clock time, please join the celebration of Yoga Month! On the lower bar of the video above, there is a menu of short interviews of many different people sharing what yoga means to them. Though we are late to participate in the official month’s [...]

DE-LISH TOMATO SOUP

carolyn aka LaughingYogini | September 25, 2008

A Yogini’s Recipes for Happiness

It was a VERY rainy summer in WNY and the tomato vines withered early. Though it’s unbelievable considering how pitiful the vines were, we did reap a decent crop of plump crimson fruits. Mike created a fantastic soup from the harvest. It’s so delicious that it’s hard to believe it’s so [...]

Practicing Gratitude, Head Balance

carolyn aka LaughingYogini | September 17, 2008

The gang in Houston remains without power. Dinners have become very interesting. And the nights are long. A great time for meditation! By the way, Laughing Yogini’s server is wrapped in plastic in a bathroom until power returns. If you have left a comment, it won’t be approved until nutopia is back on line. [...]

Why Practice? A Disaster Named Ike

carolyn aka LaughingYogini | September 14, 2008

What is life? What do we expect?
In the Western world we have expectations of personal as well as global peace and happiness every single day. Of course, that is NOT the case. As Jon Kabat-Zinn reminds us in his book, FULL CATASTROPHE LIVING, life is more or less a series of catastrophes, one after another. [...]

THE GARDEN WITHIN

carolyn aka LaughingYogini | September 10, 2008

The morning sun shines a luminous shower upon my face and the coolish breeze softly combs through my hair. Kitchen baskets of apples, tomatoes, squash, and peppers overflow. Mike made elderberry jam with fruit from a bush planted two years ago. We smile in abundance. Western New York September proliferates in fecundity.
And when [...]

Living YOUR Life TODAY

carolyn aka LaughingYogini | September 3, 2008

The question is whose life ARE you living? As you go deeper into meditation and yogic practice, as you connect regularly with your core self, your True Self, this question rears its, often, ugly head. For me, there was a feeling for years that I was living a life that was not my own. I [...]