Explorer Yoga

11/27/2025

HOLIDAY LOVINGKINDNESS CHALLENGE!! 🙏🏼🎄❄️
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Here’s a stripped down explanation of lovingkindness (Metta) meditation, with more info at the link:

At least twice a day (upon waking and at bedtime) is a great way to start. Hit the snooze button in the AM and practice! ***Feel free to practice anytime; try it when waiting in line or in traffic. And SMILE at people if you make eye contact! 😀

Remember that lovingkindnesss can be given freely and (unlike money) you don’t have to worry about losing it! The more you give, the more you receive ❤️🙏🏼

Think of someone you love unconditionally. It might be yourself (but we’re not all there yet) so start with a family member, friend, or a pet.

Repeat to yourself: May I be happy. May I be well. May I be safe. May I be peaceful and at ease.

Next, think of someone you are acquainted with, and repeat the phrases. Take your time, and visualize the person during each of the steps. “May YOU be happy…”

Then, a neutral person (cashier, person on the street) that you don’t know and don’t have a beef with).

Next, bring to mind a person you dislike. Repeat the phrases.

Lastly, focus on someone you detest. Repeat the phrases.

>>> Consistency matters, so try this for at least a few weeks; this simple technique is TRANSFORMATIONAL when practiced daily! 🙏🏼❤️

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Founded by Frank Ostaseski, Metta Institute is a catalyst for individual and cultural change. Inspired by Buddhist tradition, they offer educational programs integrating the spiritual dimensions of living, dying and transformation.

11/02/2025

In case you forgot:

10/29/2025

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10/24/2025

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10/19/2025

Clean air, water, and soil is what’s best for everyone! When we ALL do better, we all do better. (And, it’s the right thing to do)! Diversity in plants and people is what is needed to heal the earth, and all who reside here.

We've got to start exposing, reflecting upon, and confronting the hierarchies that keep us subservient in a system that's not working. That system is evident in lawns and the municipal w**d codes that defend / support lawns and the corporations that profit from lawns. The system is based on class and racial warfare as well, because our country was founded upon genocide and slavery -- the engine that still grinds on and keeps us from a true democracy. That's how I see it. That's what I wrote in my forthcoming book -- a mix of peeling back the social layers while applying practical methodology to rewild and unlawn America (an unlawning that means more than it says).

09/27/2025

If only everyone would get on board!

“…….And when you feel afraid
(Love one another)
When you've lost your way
(Love one another)
And when you're all alone
(Love one another)
And when you're far from home
(Love one another)
And when you're down and out
(Love one another)
And when your hopes run out
(Love one another)
And when you need a friend
(Love one another)
And when you're near the end
(Love, we got to love)
(We got to love one another)

[Chorus]
Light of the world, shine on me
Love is the answer
Shine on us all, set us free
Love is the answer”…..

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Provided to YouTube by Rhino AtlanticLove Is the Answer · England Dan & John Ford ColeyDr. Heckle & Mr. Jive℗ 1979 Atlantic Recording CorporationPerformance:...

09/12/2025

Need to rebalance and/or reset? Come for a group practice! For a little while, you’ll have nothing to prove and no where else to be. Time to listen to what your body and heart are telling you. Are you helping or hurting others right now? What can you reframe? What stories are you telling yourself that don’t ring true (and maybe never really did). Remember that a different perspective can change everything. Lead with love, and your path will find you. Keep exploring, friends 🙏🏼❤️🕊️

09/04/2025

We highly recommend Dr. Gabor Mate’s work 🙏🏼❤️

08/01/2025

🌻 Our Fall Schedule is here, and we’re excited to share some joyful updates from the studio! 🎉

✨ We’re welcoming back the amazing Roberta Milliken, who’s returning to teaching after retiring from OU-C. She’ll be teaching Mondays from 5:30 -6:30 PM starting in August!

🧘‍♀️ And we’re happy to report that Denise is recovering beautifully from her double mastectomy in June—so much so that she’s been cleared to return to teaching! She’ll be offering two supportive, feel-good classes this fall:

• Midweek Yoga Reset — Wednesdays, 5:30–6:30 PM
• Not Your Mama’s Chair Yoga — Thursdays, 5:00–6:00 PM

Rounding out our schedule:

>>>The amazing Nancy Kennelly will continue to teach on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings from 9:30 am - 10:30 am.

>>>The lovely Kendra Everhart will continue to teach her “Sunday Soothe” class on Sundays from 5:30-6:30 pm.

Whether you’re just starting out or returning to your mat, we’re here with accessible, down-to-earth yoga that meets you where you are. 🩵

👉 Full class descriptions for all our classes are on our website at www.ExplorerYoga.com and the Schedule Bliss app. Come take some time for YOU—we’d love to see you soon! 🙏🏼😊

07/31/2025

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07/27/2025

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This painting is often misread by settlers as a role reversal: an imagined act of vengeance upon colonizers. But to see it as revenge is to once again see through the eyes of colonialism, replicating its same mechanisms. What is expressed here is far more profound.

This is what rematriation looks like: sacred power returning to the soil, the bodies, the breath of this continent.

It is ceremony stretched across time, where tenderness dares to meet trauma and does not become it. The Land Back movement does not wish to mirror the blade of conquest. The Land Back movement extends the medicine of memory, the salve of restoration. It teaches that healing is relational, that the oppressor too has been disfigured by the machinery of empire.

Colonialism severed all of us from the sacred, leaving us hollow and haunted in different ways. It taught us to hoard, dominate, fear one another. But this has been an inherited fear passed through generations until someone decides to create a new path.

The new path signaled in this painting.

The work ahead is not to punish or displace, but to reconnect. To disarm the heart. To return what was taken, yes, but also to repair what was severed in all directions.

What Charles Hillard offers is not merely a reimagining of North America, it is a global invocation. A visual promise that healing is possible. That rematriation begins when we dare to remember. And that remembrance, fierce, tender, and rooted, is the healing balm.