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Jennifer Sokolov Jennifer Sokolov

The Crown Chakra: Ideal or Idyll

I’ve been reflecting on the Crown Chakra—the symbolism, the idealism, and my love/hate relationship with notions of spiritual attainment.

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Intuition, Ajna, and Intelligence

While enlightenment is endlessly fascinating to medittators, intuition is a vast subject that turns out to have a lot of resonance in the business and gaming communities which has prompted much brain-based study.

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Jennifer Sokolov Jennifer Sokolov

Your Body is a Yoga Body

The assumptions of what a yogi should look like are so ingrained culturally that it's hard not to go there…

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Jennifer Sokolov Jennifer Sokolov

Dealing with DISTRESS (Yogically)

This week distress has been a heavy burden for so many of us. Different from anxiety or depression, distress is a felt response to present circumstances rather than a specific diagnosis. The concept of distress (vs. eustress or positive stress) originated from the work of endocrinologist Hans Selye in the 1950’s who identified 3 stages of stress known as the general adaptation syndrome (GAS).

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