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Daniel Clement
- Jun 22
- 3 min
Mental health, mental illness, and yoga
John takes care of himself, has a steady job, friends and plans for his future. John sometimes thinks about old age and death, but is...
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Daniel Clement
- Dec 30, 2021
- 2 min
Teaching as healing
We are not the authors of all of our thoughts. The inside voices, installed by childhood experiences are not made explicit until they...
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Daniel Clement
- Sep 24, 2021
- 1 min
Fear of the embrace
She is vast. She welcomes me, and has always been thus. The gods are her adolescent children, looking for power without knowing from...
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Daniel Clement
- Sep 6, 2021
- 2 min
Stillness = Faith
They say the bits of the universe blown outward by the big bang will eventually become still. In this total stillness, a total evenness...
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Daniel Clement
- Aug 7, 2021
- 2 min
Reach your highest potential by becoming...
Every age has it's metaphors. In one age, human drives are hydraulic, or the world is like a mechanical clock. My metaphor here may...
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Daniel Clement
- Aug 1, 2021
- 2 min
Loved for a reason
We often want to point to certain characteristics of another when we are asked why we love someone. I want to suggest that the question...
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Daniel Clement
- Jul 24, 2021
- 2 min
3 end-times yoga marketing tips from a crotchety cynic.
It's almost fall of 2021. As we wait for the trees to shed their leaves late/post pandemic, you may be wondering how to kick-start your...
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Daniel Clement
- Jul 18, 2021
- 1 min
Repetition alone won't do it
The Sanskrit word samsara describes a repetitive cycle that one is bound to as long as it remains unconscious. When we learn to do...
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Daniel Clement
- Jul 13, 2021
- 2 min
Liberation from the desire for liberation breath technique. (An until-now unspoken secret technique)
1) Sit, stand, or lie down relatively comfortably. 2) Eyes can be open, closed, or partially closed. 3) Notice your breath, just as it...
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Daniel Clement
- Jul 1, 2021
- 2 min
Canada Day
Caution - the reason the following is difficult to read is the reason it is difficult to actually enact change). I'm happy to live in...
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Daniel Clement
- Jun 28, 2021
- 1 min
The economics of risk versus age
I'm pretty risk-adverse. I tend not to take big financial chances. This becomes a habit, a way of life really. It makes sense if you...
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Daniel Clement
- Jun 19, 2021
- 2 min
3 keys to extremely temporary happiness
These tips are for yoga teachers, but they can be used no matter who you are, as long as you don't mind dropping a few extra pounds of...
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Daniel Clement
- Jun 12, 2021
- 2 min
On the value of doing nothing
We are driven to produce, to work and to create, not by our own inclinations but at least in part by the software that was installed in...
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Daniel Clement
- Jun 6, 2021
- 2 min
Okagesamade - thanks to the shadows
This word, Okagesamade, is a Japanese idea. Kage is shadow, the letter "O" is an honorific - a way of showing respect to, or to indicate...
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Daniel Clement
- May 22, 2021
- 1 min
God cannot ask for forgiveness
Everyone makes mistakes. little ones, and big ones. We can ask for forgiveness for our mistakes, for we are limited in our understanding,...
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Daniel Clement
- May 18, 2021
- 1 min
Your true companion is never absent
We often look to another "thing" in our world to provide a sense of completeness or satisfaction. We look to another as a grounding...
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Daniel Clement
- May 15, 2021
- 1 min
The world within us
I remember, at a particularly low point in my life after a breakup, feeling weak in body and spirit, I reached out. This reaching out on...
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Daniel Clement
- Apr 27, 2021
- 3 min
Why the aim of self-improvement fails
"Belts are only good for holding up your pants" - Bruce Lee "My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't...
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Daniel Clement
- Apr 12, 2021
- 2 min
The universe of you
We live our lives within a story. In this story, we are the protagonist. But the world is large, and our capability to act within it...
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