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Yoga Teacher Training New York City

We are in the last stretch of our month long teacher training program. I can not believe it is almost over!
As I reflect back to the first week, I remember feeling scared, uncertain and at times even a little overwhelmed. Paula gently reminded us to trust in the process. I thought of this many times, and in the end it all came together so beautifully. She guided us through this experience with love, allowing us to truly feel the [...]

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Yoga and the Pelvic Floor

Reflections was able to get some time in Leslie Howard’s busy schedule to ask her a few questions about her “Yoga for the Pelvic Floor” workshop that she presents at yoga studios across the world, and will present at Reflections Center for Conscious Living on March 9 & 10, 2013. 

Leslie Howard has been teaching yoga for over 15 years. She has studied intensively with top-tier teachers in the Iyengar school: Manouso Manos, Ramanand Patel, Tony Briggs, Patricia Walden, and others. Each [...]

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June Notes from Paula

What is the importance of practice?
As our lives progress we find that too often the same old story keeps recurring. Like a bad re-run, you can't seem to

change the channel, yet you know that the story will not have the hap
piest of endings. How can this be so when we want a new ending so badly. We want it with our whole heart from the deepest part of our souls!.  Perhaps the answer in not in the wanting, but in [...]

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April News From Paula

It is hard to deny that our beautiful planet is in flux! The balance of life is changing as far as the eye can see. Now, since the planet (like us) is a living organism, it is always changing to some degree. Smaller changes are tolerable…. the bigger tsunamis are harder to deal with.
As we watch the balance of power changing so rapidly in the Middle East, it can seem like the planet is on a large scale cleanse. It [...]

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March News from Paula

Why Yoga …
 
It is true I have been doing yoga for a good, long time but it wasn’t until I hit my 40’s that I
really found the truth of the practice. There is something about forty that just makes you wiser.
The older, and perhaps wiser, I became the more I understood the innate beauty of this ancient
practice. Here are a few examples of what I have come to understand, and about the importance of yoga at any age.
Yoga teaches us [...]

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December News from Paula

When we increase consciousness we decrease the need for will or willpower.
As I was looking through my millions of notebooks one day, I stumbled upon this statement. It was so intriguing, I had to give it some thought. I began to think about the times I felt I needed to assert my will and what was behind that. What was the “power” behind my will and was it actually powerful or just something I have always done without question. [...]

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January News from Paula

We are as happy as we want to be. Is this true?
It is true that we are a series of patterns that get triggered as a reaction and, on better days, as a response to our life situations. Sometimes these patterns work for us and other times they just no longer do.
When it comes to deciding whether we can be happy, as we want to be, we may claim to be satisfied in our own lives by changing our attitude [...]

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End of Year News from Paula

In any given year we can reflect back on our year and recant our experience, both good and bad. Yoga, in its many forms, has helped me to gain a deeper understanding and more importantly, acceptance of life’s inevitable shifts.
No one is exempt from experiencing both the beauty and the challenges that life has to offer. The Yoga Sutras explains this so elegantly through the dance of the Gunas. The continuous movement of light to dark and back again. When [...]

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December News from Paula

When we increase consciousness we decrease the need for will or willpower.
As I was looking through my millions of notebooks one day, I stumbled upon this statement. It was so intriguing, I had to give it some thought. I began to think about the times I felt I needed to assert my will and what was behind that. What was the “power” behind my will and was it actually powerful or just something I have always done without question. If [...]

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