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YOGA SHALA

WELCOME TO THE
AMANDARI JOURNAL
Reflections on Mindfulness & Yoga
from past classes
for your inspiration
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Walk as if you're Kissing the Earth with your Feet - more on the wonderful practice of Gatha
Gatha is a sanskrit word for 'song' or 'verse', and is a meditative poem or verse used in contemporary mindfulness practice. It has its...
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Can this thing called fear be ended immediately?
"Can this thing called fear be ended immediately?" This is part of a set of questions or koans that was given to me some years ago, (see...
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Some interesting koans ...
Last week I came across a (by now a bit tatty) piece of paper that was given to me years ago, at a meditation retreat. When we arrived,...
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Mindfulness and Traces of Shadows.
In his book, "Zen Mind, Beginners Mind", Shunryu Suzuki talks about Mindfulness and how our mind and our thinking is made complicated by...
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A Kintsugi Life - the beautiful art of Kintsugi, Mindfulness and Ernest Hemmingway
I have a fondness for distressed objects. Weathered, worn or rusted, a chip or a crack in a thing has never bothered me much and, to me,...
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Mindfulness can be everywhere...
I have an immense appreciation of mindfulness meditation because it gives me the ability to focus on what's happening right in front of...
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