Category: Thoughtful Yoga

Considerations and ponderings while conducting your daily practice.

A Day of Thanks Giving

Paloma Chavez
blessing.jpgI am a vegetarian, coming from an indigenous ancestry of  Yaqui and Apache,  and Spanish; Latina. I am typically not at the Thanksgiving Day parades or stuffing a turkey at 6:00 in the morning, or won’t give in to the groans of my family who say “Why can’t you not be a vegetarian today and just have a little turkey. It won’t hurt.”  It still confounds them when I say "I am a vegetarian every...
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Poetry of Motion

Paloma Chavez
buddha.jpgWith the change in the season, night falling sooner and new reflections of the year closely coming to an end, I found myself in “poetic motion” and I was looking for some inspiration. Perhaps a familiar language that also engages in this journey of taking yoga one day at a time? (more…)
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One Sun Salutation

Paloma Chavez
risingsun.jpgJust before dusk on a drive through Los Angeles a fierce amber sun hung in the skies that had become overcast with soot and ash. All around us was a dry and thick aroma of settled embers that lay across the cities north and south of us. We drove towards it as it moved into the sea and each of us let out a gasp of reverence. (more…)
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