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Four Reasons Why You Should Be Mindful During Yoga

by Shawn Radcliffe | May 7, 2020 | Health, Meditation, Yoga

When I first started doing yoga, I would sometimes practice at home while watching TV or listening to the news. This seemed like a good way to keep from getting bored while I moved from pose to pose. It wasn’t until I started going regularly to group yoga classes that...

What is Mindfulness Yoga?

by Shawn Radcliffe | Nov 15, 2019 | Meditation, Yoga

Even though I’ve only been teaching Mindfulness Yoga for a few years, I’ve actually been teaching mindfulness yoga for much longer than that. What? I know. This sounds a bit like a logic problem: If a yoga teacher leaves on a train headed due east at 50 km/hour, and...

Slowing Down My Life, One Moment at a Time

by Shawn Radcliffe | May 22, 2015 | Health, Meditation, Writing, Yoga

This has been a week of Slowing Down. One moment at a time. And now that Saturday is almost here, it’s a chance to step back from the fast-paced world of technology — iPhones, non-stop Facebook videos, and distracted one-line messages to friends. But it’s not...

Moving Into Meditation — By Not Moving

by Shawn Radcliffe | May 12, 2015 | Meditation, Yoga

Meditation has never been fun. In his first sermon at the Deer Park, I doubt the Buddha said to his disciples, “You should stop by BuddhaWorks on Friday night. We’ll be sitting around until our butts go numb and we come face-to-face with our annoying monkey minds. And...

The Showering Guide to Creativity

by Shawn Radcliffe | Dec 4, 2013 | Creativity, Meditation

If you want to be an artist — maybe a writer or a painter, or one of those people who designs window displays at big name department stores in New York City — what’s the one thing you need? Talent? Sure, that helps. But you can learn skills that you...