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Oakland, US

I am a 23 year old female from the Bay Area, California. I am inspired by nature. I am an artist, working with natural materials and concepts of our human nature in sculpture and mixed media. I may be going to the Peace Corps soon.

 

More About Me

My Occupation is
Artist/Childcare

My hobbies/interests are
Nature hikes, natural cooking, raw foods, health, arts, traveling, and having new experiences.

One secret that helps me to stay healthy is
Enjoy the process.

My wellness goals are
To grow all around, up and down, in and out and continuously forward.

I see myself achieving my wellness goals by
Practicing daily and listening to my body with love.

My inspirations are
My own potential and natural ability, as well as others who are further along and have wisdom and light of encouragement to share.

Laura's Wellness Diary

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    • May 2, 2011 at 12:58pm

      Energy Boost.
      I work with children, and that often wears me out. Also though, I've had symptoms of hypoglycemia, which makes me fatigue often. I use food to increase my energy, but I wonder if yoga can help as well.

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        • April 28, 2011 at 1:41pm

          I have been revisiting a problem that I have done in yoga a lot. I use my eyes too much and they become a strain to the pose. It's like I use my eyes to feel the intensity of what I am doing. But yoga is not like other exercises. I realized mid-practice today that I should practice warming my gaze. As soon as I thought that I could literally feel them melting back into the heat of the rest of my body. Instead of forcing myself to feel the asana and using my eyes to do so, I can feel my body working the pose, as a separate entity from my ego. It is so humbling to feel the honest place that my body is at, and just let it do the pose without my input of force.

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            • April 11, 2011 at 3:36pm

              I just did another Yin Yoga session, and again I feel inspired by it. I think that alternating between typical Yang yoga and Yin yoga is something that can work well for my body. It's deepening and restorative and reminds me of my inner peace and divinity.

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                • March 24, 2011 at 1:09pm

                  Yin Yoga

                  • AUM
                    AUM

                    My first real introduction, found courtesy of this site, was a revelation. I am inspired by this precious morsel of information, that indeed there is an opposite to the regular asana practice of yang yoga. There is a counterbalance to all the muscular stretches and strengthening and balancing. Yin Yoga, is a beautiful answer resolve to the wonders of yang yoga. I feel that I have a holistic other to carry with my practice that just makes everything make more sense. To have another practice that gets deeper into cartilage and bones, with equal depth, yet upon opposite body materials and psychological receptors. Yin yoga is a revelation to me, and I just had to share that with you.

                    about a year ago in Oakland, US

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