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How to Accept Change & Live In The Moment
There’s a moment, quiet but powerful, when you stop running.You stop clinging to what was, and you stop fearing what’s next.You simply breathe, and realize, everything is always changing. This moment may come after loss, a transition, or simply in a sudden flash of insight. However it arrives, it holds a universal truth: Once you realize how transient everything is, then you truly begin to live. The Beauty in Impermanence Modern culture often teaches us to grip tightly to success, youth, relationships, even pain. We’re…
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The Side Of Singapore That Will Surprize You
There is a version of Singapore that exists in most people’s imaginations before they arrive — a gleaming, rule-following city-state famous for being spotlessly clean, borderline futuristic, and perhaps a little… predictable. I had that version in my head too. What I found instead was something far more layered, alive, and honestly, deeply moving. We arrived in late January 2025, right in the heart of Chinese New Year festivities, and Singapore proceeded to astonish us at every turn. This is the Singapore that doesn’t always…
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EFT Tapping & Qi – The Energy That Gives Life To Everything
What if your fatigue, tension, or lack of clarity wasn’t just a random occurrence, but a gentle nudge from your own body asking for attention? What if behind the symptoms, there was a quiet force that speaks not in words, but in flow? Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has a word for that force: Qi (pronounced chee). In yoga it is prana. Qi is not easily seen or measured, but it can be felt, like the warmth in your hands after meditation, that wave-like electrical spread you feel during…
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Teachers Are Also Learning: Why Teaching Is the Most Important Profession Ever
As I sit in front of a class, prepared with a rhythmic sequence to teach yoga, I am learning just as much as my students are. I watch the room and observe and notice what kind of limitations students have. In shoulder mobility and immobility. I notice the level of awareness they have in the way their body moves. That’s how I decide on the speed that I teach, and the cues that I use. No amount of research or practice can fully prepare me…
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How To Navigate Death Valley National Park
The Hottest Place on Earth There’s something deeply humbling about standing in a landscape so vast, so ancient, and so unforgiving that it reminds you of your place in the universe. Death Valley National Park, a name that evokes mystery and danger, is more than just a record-breaking furnace. It is a masterpiece of extremes – a land of towering sand dunes, salt flats that stretch endlessly, and colorful canyons sculpted by time. When I ventured into Death Valley with my cousin in our hippie-looking…
