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Category Archives: Fitness
Making Friends With Myself
After almost a month’s hiatus, I returned to my yoga class this weekend. As I spread into my favourite warrior pose, I had a resounding feeling of coming home. My mind and spirit filled into the dusty, forgotten physical nooks … Continue reading
Posted in City life, Fitness
Tagged acceptance, activity, alienation, body, exercise, Fitness, friendliness, friendship, home, memories, mind, reacquaintance, spirit, yoga
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Yoga as Healing
After my yoga class, I went to talk to my teacher. “Tell me about breathing,” I said. He calmly turned to me, his eyes gazing steadily into mine. “Breathing is as important as movement. It is part of the flow,” … Continue reading
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Tagged breath, breathing, compassion, flow, healing, health, kindness, loving-kindness, yoga
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A reflection about this blog
A few months ago, I committed to myself that I would write at least one post every week for my blog community. After all, we had found each other, spread out geographically, across all differences on the basis of a … Continue reading
Posted in buddhism, City life, Fitness, human behaviour, Travel
Tagged blankness, blogposts, blogs, clarity, commitment, confusion, direction, discipline, emptiness, habit, reflections, writer's block, Writing
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My experiences with Vipassana meditation: Mindful eating
Recently, I went on a 10-day meditation retreat to learn Vipassana meditation. Vipassana means insight and the whole ten days were spent in silence, with no distractions of phones, reading, writing or conversations. No exchanges with the external world, not … Continue reading
Posted in buddhism, Fitness
Tagged buddhism, farm to table, Food, meditation, mindfulness, slow eating, vipassana
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How To Eat
This topic is absurd. Such are the days. Eating used to be easy. I didn’t think about eating except when I was hungry. I knew what to eat. I ate till I was full and then stopped. That’s it. And … Continue reading
Posted in buddhism, Fitness, Habit change
Tagged awareness, calorie counting, calories, clean eating, eating, Food, healthy eating, mindful eating, mindfulness, obesity, undernutrition
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Fitness: It’s not about motivation.
It’s June, the middle point of the year. 6 months have passed since we rang in the new year, full of energy, hope and optimism. This year, we promised ourselves, is going to be The Year Of A Better Me. … Continue reading
Posted in Fitness, Habit change
Tagged change, clean eating, exercise, Fitness, Habit change, habits, motivation, new year's resolutions, sleep
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Always a Beginner – Part 2
A few weeks ago, I wrote about finding myself as a beginner in my fitness regimen (“Always A Beginner” blogpost). After a long gap, where I was not able to exercise with any regularity, I started again and discovered my … Continue reading
Posted in Fitness, Habit change
Tagged beginner, beginnings, exercise, Fitness, habit, Habit change, habits, hiit, humility, mindfulness, physical fitness, physical strength, struggle
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Always a Beginner
Beginnings are good. The hark the dawn of a new era, whether it’s the era of newfound knowledge when we start a book, or the era of a new look, when we get a haircut. Some beginnings are seemingly trivial, … Continue reading
Posted in Fitness, Habit change
Tagged beginner, beginnings, compassion, exercise, Fitness, humility, New year, openness, physical fitness
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Om, before and after
Om is a remarkable word, sound, utterance. It is a mantra in Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism, resonating for thousands of years across the universe. There is something powerful in the single syllable, in the vibrations it triggers. Without fail, the … Continue reading
Why don’t I do more yoga?
The single thing that I crave the most is connection. Or rather, connectedness. To people, to my surroundings, to my true self. It gives me the deepest sense of being, truly being, to feel that I am linked to others, … Continue reading
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