Anusara invocation

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It’s a Fine Line Between a Grimace and a Smile (and satcitananda murtaye)
ByElizabeth February 22, 2011

The New York Times just published a blog entry on the perils of faking happiness. The first problem with the article was that I could not get to the study to see if I agreed that the actual premise was that “faking a smile” was what led to a deterioration in mood or feeling unduly…

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Should I Be In Alignment or Should I Relax Completely? (and Namah Shivayah)
ByElizabeth February 4, 2011

For the first few years I was teaching, one season a year, I would have as my overall session theme the Anusara invocation (for the words written out, click on “invocation” in the menu bar above). In so doing, I invited myself and others to contemplate at the heart level the meaning of each word,…

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Guru Purnima (without a “guru”)
ByElizabeth July 7, 2009

A yoga teacher acquaintance once said rather dogmatically to me that it was not possible to be a true yoga teacher unless one had a guru. He meant having a guru in the traditional sense — being devoted to a particular person as the embodiment of the divine and of the true teachings. I did…

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