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Christmas Season Guided Meditation
Christmas Guided Meditation (This meditation will be shared at the Hickory Foundation YMCA Teen Center in Hickory, NC Wednesday,...

Cynthia Haas
Dec 6, 20235 min read
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Centering Sangha
Starting off with gratitude is a tradition I have held at the beginning of each yoga class. It starts us off focusing on the positive...

Cynthia Haas
Sep 19, 20231 min read
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Needing Calm? Practice Calm.
How many times has it happened that we go to pay for a small item, and find that we don't have that cash on hand we thought we did?...

Cynthia Haas
Jul 8, 20232 min read
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In a Bind? Check Your Boundaries
According to https://www.wellandgood.com "A yoga bind pose involves taking one hand over one part of your body, and holding it with your...

Cynthia Haas
Oct 28, 20222 min read
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Restore Ourselves, Restore the World
Coming into April 2021, the month of Earth Day, a little more than a year after the world pandemic began, we may feel more than a little...

Cynthia Haas
Apr 17, 20212 min read
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Time to Come In
Those dreaded words when I was growing up...."Time to come in!" Especially when the days lingered longer, there was never a tiring of...

Cynthia Haas
Mar 31, 20211 min read
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Death and Rebirth
Spring and the Easter season bring about thoughts of renewal, rebirth, and revival for a lot of us. Scenes of butterflies, buttercups,...

Cynthia Haas
Mar 21, 20212 min read
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Spring Cleaning
Here in the Northern Hemisphere of this great big world, it's time when the cold melts away to warm breezes and frozen ground begins to...

Cynthia Haas
Mar 11, 20211 min read
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Autumn: Summon Your Shadow Side
This is an excerpt from "Autumnal Equinox: Ritual Through Yoga" (author Laura Hand, September 14, 2016 at gaia.com, see the full article...

Cynthia Haas
Sep 22, 20202 min read
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Mind Flip: Changing "I got to" to "I get to"
Okay, grammar police, simmer down. I know "I got to" is not grammatically correct, but it's an easy way to remember this "mind flip." ...

Cynthia Haas
Sep 15, 20202 min read
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Interdependence Days: Week Five, Our Spiritual Connection
Intention: The ultimate purpose of yoga is to quieten our minds and bodies to be able to hear our higher calling more clearly, and...

Cynthia Haas
Sep 7, 20202 min read
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Interdependence Days: Week Four, Our Body Connection
Intention: Awareness of interconnection in and outside ourselves One often stops taking for granted the amazing operating capacity of the...

Cynthia Haas
Jul 21, 20202 min read
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Interdependence Days: Week Three, Always Connected with Community
Intention: Awareness of interconnectedness with our community. Picture one of your favorite foods in your mind. With the imagination of...

Cynthia Haas
Jul 14, 20201 min read
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Interdependence Days: Week Two, the Elements
Intention: Connection with and gratitude for the elements of the Earth I remember one yoga practice when I was a beginning yogi (and...

Cynthia Haas
Jul 7, 20201 min read
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Cosmic Gifts: Interdependence Days: Week One, The Cosmos
Intention: Connection with unconditional love and gifts. We do not need to travel far to find a warm, energetic, and light-filled energy...

Cynthia Haas
Jul 5, 20202 min read
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Happy Interdependence Days!
Intention: Connection with others and ourselves. We are over it. We can feel it in ourselves, and we can feel it in each other. A...

Cynthia Haas
Jul 5, 20201 min read
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Keeping the Peace
Intention: Keeping internal peace during trying times. Most of us at one time or another have ventured into a love/hate relationship to...

Cynthia Haas
Jun 12, 20201 min read
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Homeostasis
Intention: Homeostasis (Yama: Brahmacharya.) Homeostasis is defined as " "(https://www.yourdictionary.com/homeostasis.) With the...

Cynthia Haas
May 24, 20202 min read
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Sweet Surrender
Intention: Ishvara Pranidhana (Surrender.) Surrounded. Surrounded by news of COVID-19, surrounded by fear, and surrounded within our own...

Cynthia Haas
May 5, 20203 min read
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Invisibility in Practice
Week of 9/29/2019 Intention: Tapas (purification through discipline.) Teaching my son sign language sounded like such a great idea when...

Cynthia Haas
Apr 29, 20202 min read
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