Category Archives: homepractice

Six Things I Know

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Kristin Shepherd

There are six things I know about myself this morning after yoga practice:1. I’m OK skipping one day of practice. My body is happiest when I don’t skip two days. It is perhaps pathetic to begin this list by discussing… Continue reading →

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Beginner’s Mind

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Kristin Shepherd

It might be that a blog called Beginner’s Mind is the best thing that ever happened to my yoga practice. When I began writing this a year ago, the wonderful people at Yoga Journal gave me this title. I’d been… Continue reading →

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Walking the Path

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Kristin Shepherd

This morning during home practice my thoughts walked a familiar path:1. Rats. That left second toe still hurts a bit. I’ll bet it’s from walking across the lake in my big boots. It’s a bit red, too, and swollen. Like… Continue reading →

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Funk Yoga

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Kristin Shepherd

My sister called this morning, on the tail end of a four-day premenstrual funk. During said funk, she forgoes dinner for chocolate bars and Skittles, which she calls bags of pretty-colored death. She wears sweat pants, a hoodie, and fat… Continue reading →

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Yoga Goes Viral

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Kristin Shepherd

I returned to yoga last year with a feverish intensity. Within two months I’d started a home practice just for the pleasure of it, and it seems there’s no looking back. I was ripe for it.After Christmas, my lovely man… Continue reading →

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All The Time In The World

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Kristin Shepherd

For the foreseeable future (one week? three weeks?), I’ve got all the time in the world. I’m celebrating the end of one career by spending time with the dog (my lovely man is working) at our cabin on an island… Continue reading →

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Falling for Warm Poses

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Kristin Shepherd

Home practice is wonderful these days. Mornings are getting cold here. We wear gloves while walking the dog. Most often, it’s still dark out. I look like a teenager who’s lost her skateboard: a hoodie, baseball cap, baggie pants,… Continue reading →

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