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off to school we go #3

June 12, 2011

The Author: Nick Mattos Nick is a writer and blogger based in Portland, Oregon. His column Remember to Breathe, an ongoing love letter to the city he calls home, runs in Portland’s alternative newsweekly Just Out . His essays and fiction work have appeared in such publications as the Portland Mercury, New Queer Media, On Uneven Ground, Litigulous, Non-Prophet

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off to school we go, #2

June 9, 2011

The Author: Nick Mattos Nick is a writer and blogger based in Portland, Oregon. His column Remember to Breathe, an ongoing love letter to the city he calls home, runs in Portland’s alternative newsweekly Just Out . His essays and fiction work have appeared in such publications as the Portland Mercury, New Queer Media, On Uneven Ground, Litigulous, Non-Prophet

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My Journey to Yoga, Evolation and Self

June 7, 2011

My first experience at evolation yoga in Tampa, FL was a memory that will stay with me forever.  Before I start explaining it in such great detail that you feel like you are living those moments and breathes with me, I first must tell you how I came to discover it. My life was crazy,

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off to school we go

May 31, 2011

The Author: Nick Mattos Nick is a writer and blogger based in Portland, Oregon. His column Remember to Breathe, an ongoing love letter to the city he calls home, runs in Portland’s alternative newsweekly Just Out . His essays and fiction work have appeared in such publications as the Portland Mercury, New Queer Media, On Uneven Ground, Litigulous, Non-Prophet

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sweetness of energy

May 19, 2011

My first yoga class woke me up! I practiced yoga for 7 years before attending my first class – an Ashtanga class. I felt like a child playing with my brother in the safety of our home. When I returned home, the gravity of what was missing from my sole video and book practice struck

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move the goalposts

May 17, 2011

Yoga started teaching me how to save my own life from the first class. I was sixteen, utterly heartbroken, and unable to be at home in my own pimply skin. My first boyfriend had literally just broken up with me, an hour beforehand — I left his house, with tears streaming down my face, to

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teach to serve

May 4, 2011

Teaching yoga is not just going to the studio, standing on the podium in shorts and a sports bra, and telling people what to do for 90 minutes.   Teaching, regardless of the subject, is a way to serve others and hopefully improve their lives in some way, whether it is a great improvement or a

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yoga and passover

April 19, 2011

This weekend is the start of Passover.  All over the world, Jews use this holiday to remember and remind each other of the struggles and hardships in history.  Why is this a topic to discuss on a yoga blog? During the seider on the first night of the holiday, the story of the exodus from

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Creating My Adventure

March 26, 2011

Three years ago, if you had asked me what role yoga played in my life, I would have said, ‘A minimal one.  I don’t have time to stretch, and besides, I’m looking for a real workout.’  Today, however, my answer would be a very different one- ‘Yoga? It’s part of my life in so many

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teacher training: costa rica

March 10, 2011
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We have arrived in Costa Rica! Excitement flows in my veins. What a place for the last half of our evolation yoga teacher training.  In the morning I awake with the sounds of birds and the morning sun filtering through our window.  When I gaze outside I see the lush and tropical greenery which surrounds

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