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Jennifer Sokolov Jennifer Sokolov

Acceptance is the New Optimism

Optimism and yoga hinge on the idea that the potential for positive change is always possible. It's been a challenge to espouse optimism right now when so many systems, institutions and situations are going inexorably wrong. But I believe it is still possible to do so.

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Jennifer Sokolov Jennifer Sokolov

Reflections on Old-school Hatha Yoga 

In a sea of yoga styles, I continuously return to Hatha yoga. The poses are a decades long narrative that becomes evermore nuanced as time hurries my body onward. Sometimes I see my reflection. My alignment feels blissfully internalized, and I can feel life force flooding my limbs. Other times I am adrift with frustration disrupted only occasionally by surprising fractals of awe.

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The Crown Chakra: Ideal or Idyll

I’ve been reflecting on the Crown Chakra—the symbolism, the idealism, and my love/hate relationship with notions of spiritual attainment.

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Intuition, Ajna, and Intelligence

While enlightenment is endlessly fascinating to medittators, intuition is a vast subject that turns out to have a lot of resonance in the business and gaming communities which has prompted much brain-based study.

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Your Body is a Yoga Body

The assumptions of what a yogi should look like are so ingrained culturally that it's hard not to go there…

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A Dancer’s Double Death

We have this wish when we enter into a period of hardship that our life should right itself without any kind of loss or sacrifice — that good times should resume with no scars to show for it. Or if we must have scars, they can, at the very least, have the decency to be resolved with botox. But nature is not like this. So much has to die and decay and desiccate before the floods of spring runoff coax the dormant seedlings to renew.

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