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Letter from Amanda: The One You Feed
Amanda on attention as nourishment: the Cherokee tale of two wolves, the two birds of the Upanishads, and stepping back far enough to see and choose.
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Letter from Amanda: The Next Rung of the Ladder
When the storm feels endless, Amanda turns to the Bhagavad Gita: moha, dharma and the witness within, and why we only ever need to reach for the next rung.
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Letter from Amanda: The Worm and the Hook
When life turns unpredictable, Amanda shares her teacher's fish-and-hook analogy for avidya and raga, and asks what the unexpected is shifting us toward.
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Letter from Amanda: Joy Will Find Her Way In
Amanda on welcoming the whole family of emotions, releasing older versions of ourselves and each other, and the steadiness that lets real joy return.
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Letter from Amanda: You Attract What You Are
What do the yogis say about love? Amanda explores polarity, Ida and Pingala, and how inner balance turns relationships into mirrors rather than battlegrounds.
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Letter from Amanda: The Life We Believe We Deserve
Amanda on self-worth, the unconscious mind and the nervous system, and how yoga helps us accept the life we truly desire as a new year begins.
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Letter from Amanda: Every Emotion Is a Tool
As the year closes, Amanda reflects on emotions as movements of prana and teachers of dharma, and how allowing rather than gripping turns them into superpowers.
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Letter from Amanda: Gratitude and Seva
Amanda on how gratitude overflows into seva (selfless service), with a message from teacher Lisa Braun and the story of Krishna and his childhood friend Sudama.
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Letter from Amanda: The Good and the Pleasant
Amanda on decision fatigue and the yogic pairing of discernment (viveka) and non-attachment (vairagya): learning to choose what is good over what is pleasant.
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Letter from Amanda: Satya, When Truth Observes You
Amanda explores satya (truthfulness) in its many layers, from not speaking a lie to recognizing the eternal, blissful truth of who we really are.
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Letter from Amanda: Taste the Salt of Your Own Being
Through the Chandogya Upanishad story of Svetaketu and the salt, Amanda explores our urge to control the outer world, and tapas as the path back to inner peace.
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Letter from Amanda: Sacred Initiations
When her 20-year-old car gave out under a full moon, Amanda sensed a larger shift. A letter on contraction before expansion and staying steady in change.
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Letter from Amanda: Freedom Is a State of Mind
The story of a man who found freedom inside a jail cell, and what it teaches about frequency, inner states and why our outer reality mirrors our inner one.
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Letter from Amanda: The Teacher Is in the Trigger
Explaining Hammurabi's Code to a 7-year-old leads Amanda to svadhyaya (self-study), unconditional love, and why peace of mind is worth more than hitting back.
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Letter from Amanda: Patience Learned from the Earth
The sage Dattatreya called the Earth one of his greatest teachers. Amanda reflects on tapas, the discipline to stay present in discomfort, on and off the mat.
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Letter from Amanda: Love Everyone and Tell the Truth
A Buddhist monk's story of an enlightened newborn leads Amanda to unconditional love and samana, equal vision of all beings, as the path to lasting peace.
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Letter from Amanda: Guardrails for a Peaceful Mind
Starting the new year with the basics: Amanda on ahimsa and satya, the yogic guardrails that keep the mind peaceful, and her vision for the eight limbs in 2025.
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Letter from Amanda: Impurities Rising to the Surface
Amanda uses the Vedic image of making ghee to describe a world in transformation, and why showing up to practice now serves not just ourselves but humanity.
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Letter from Amanda: Serenity Is Contagious
A line from Satchidananda's Yoga Sutras that Amanda often needs herself: we can be serene even in the midst of calamities, and serenity is contagious.
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Letter from Amanda: The Joint of the Seasons
Where hot and cold meet, storms follow, inside and out. Amanda on supporting the body through seasonal change with rest, decluttering, journaling and practice.
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Letter from Amanda: Your Own Dharma, Imperfectly
Amanda on projection, tracing reactions back to their roots, and the Gita's teaching that it is better to do your own duty imperfectly than another's perfectly.
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Letter from Amanda: There Is No Ground
Amanda on the loneliness of struggle, getting comfortable in groundlessness, and how developing the inner world turns life's free fall into joy and presence.
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Letter from Amanda: Let Love Lead with Intention
All the Vedic stories boil down to one question: what is the intention behind what you do? Amanda on presence, conscious choice and letting love lead.
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Letter from Amanda: Building the Village Together
As Revolution Yoga nears its 14th year, Amanda shares how the studio will stay accessible: donation classes, scholarships, bartering and self-sufficiency.
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Letter from Amanda: What Are We Pouring into the Rice?
Three jars of rice, spoken to with love, hate or nothing at all. Amanda on sankalpa (intention) and how our attention shapes our bodies, minds and lives.
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Letter from Amanda: Change the Root, Change the Tree
Lessons from Amanda's backyard orchard: what we feed the roots shapes the fruit. On nourishing an open heart by leaning in rather than resisting what is.
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Letter from Amanda: You Are Love Already
Amanda on turning our guidance system inward, releasing the roles we play, and remembering that love is not something to find but what we already are.
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Letter from Amanda: Float on the River
Old videos stirred a wish that nothing would change. Amanda on the illusion of permanence, the river of discomfort and Ishvara Pranidhana (surrender).
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Letter from Amanda: One Stone at a Time
“The person who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” Amanda on persistence, patient practice and reaching big dreams one day at a time.
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Letter from Amanda: Getting Unstuck
Amanda on how unprocessed emotions get stuck in the body, and how asana and pranayama help us feel again, release the past and deepen our inner healing.
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Letter from Amanda: Honor the Transitions
Life seen from a speeding car is a blur. Amanda invites us to slow down this fall and honor the transitions: between postures, breaths, thoughts and seasons.
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Letter from Amanda: As Above, So Below
As autumn's windy vata energy arrives, Amanda shares how Ritucharya (daily ritual), grounding food and daily asana keep body and mind balanced through the fall.
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Letter from Amanda: Remembering Who We Truly Are
Amanda on Maya and the drift away from truth: how the mind fills in the pieces, and how every practice becomes a way of remembering who we truly are.
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Letter from Amanda: Not Grounded, Planted
Real life unfolds slowly. Amanda on the patience yoga cultivates, relishing the process, and realizing that when life holds us still, we have been planted.
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Letter from Amanda: A Drop of Water
Swami Vivekananda's image of a drop of water becoming a pearl leads Amanda to association, social contagion and the shelter of a community striving for peace.
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Letter from Amanda: It All Happened for You
Amanda on reframing the past as a positive catalyst: none of it happened to you, all of it happened for you, and yoga helps us assign it a new meaning.
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Letter from Amanda: It Is What It Is
Reading Winnie the Pooh with her daughter, Amanda notices Eeyore's “why me” mode, and asks how we fortify body and mind for forces we can't control.
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Letter from Amanda: Tempering the Spice of Life
Ayurveda balances fiery spices with cooling ones. Amanda asks how we temper the spicy and the dull parts of life so we can digest our experiences into wisdom.
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Letter from Amanda: Knowing the Road Ahead
Amanda on why yoga philosophy feels like a map: understanding the predictable path of life helps us suffer less, accept more and walk the road with confidence.
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Letter from Amanda: Reach into the Honey Pot
Looking at honey won't give you its sweetness. Amanda on moving from passive observer to active participant in our own growth: yoga as integrity in action.
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Letter from Amanda: Love Is the Opposite of Fear
In the heat of August, Amanda explores fear as the root of hatred, emotions as something the body must digest, and the daily choice to act from love, not fear.
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Letter from Amanda: Armed with Yoga
Nothing is good or bad; it is how we use it. Amanda on anger, the false ego (ahamkara) and how yoga arms us to meet our emotions with presence and integrity.
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Letter from Amanda: The True “I” Is Unbroken
“I am stressed” or “my body/mind vehicle is stressed”? Amanda on the unchanging true self, and why the nervous system needs daily upkeep through practice.
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Letter from Amanda: Community Heals
After years of intensity in the world, Amanda shares how yoga, meditation and new healing circles help us process the darkness and move toward the light.
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Letter from Amanda: New Cones to See With
Spring, the reticular activating system and the stories that keep us small. Amanda on how yoga reshapes the mind to see what was in front of us all along.
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Letter from Amanda: The Gems Inside the Rock
A story about hidden emeralds leads Amanda to the path of mastery: breaking open, the raw first shift, and the patient polishing of whatever we're creating.
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Letter from Amanda: Walking Each Other Home
Amanda on the boxes and labels we place on others and ourselves, and how yoga asks us to see each being as they are: a teacher, walking us home.
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Letter from Amanda: The Candle of Hope
A children's story of four candles (Peace, Faith, Love and Hope) and Amanda's reminder that the inner flame can never go out, and can light countless others.
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Letter from Amanda: More Tolerant Than a Tree
At the close of 2020, Amanda sees exhaustion in everyone's eyes and names the lesson of the long haul: tolerance, patience and presence, as steady as a tree.
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Letter from Amanda: This Is Not Your Practice Life
In a year that felt like a waiting game, Amanda invites us to make joy intentional through ritual and feed the soul's hunger for beauty, creation and presence.
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Letter from Amanda: The Path You Were Meant For
Six months of closure, a yoga sutra every morning and a community that held together: Amanda's gratitude as Revolution Yoga prepared to reopen in 2020.
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Letter from Amanda: Anti-Racism Work Is Yoga Work
Amanda on samana (equal vision of all beings), teaching the whole of yoga, and why anti-racism work is yoga work, written in the summer of 2020.
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Letter from Amanda: Devotion in Hard Times
Early in the pandemic, Amanda maps Maslow's hierarchy of needs onto the chakras and offers three practices for moving through collective trauma.
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Letter from Amanda: Let This Be a Cocoon
Years of running a business taught Amanda that chaos precedes growth. In April 2020 she offers presence as the tool that turns this painful time into a cocoon.
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Letter from Amanda: Master of the Mind
The mind makes a terrible master and a wonderful servant. Amanda on building concentration so we can lead with wisdom instead of fear, as strange times began.
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Letter from Amanda: Burning the Seeds of Karma
From her garden, Amanda explores karma through the humble seed: samskaras planted in the mind, the cycles they create, and how meditation burns the seeds.
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Letter from Amanda: Getting Sober from Maya
For the new decade, Amanda reflects on the many reincarnations within one lifetime and why a spiritual bucket list outlasts every material resolution.
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Letter from Amanda: Transformation Through Loss
At the close of the decade, Amanda reflects on AUM, the cycle of the doshas and why nothing new can come together unless other things fall away.
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Kula: The Gift of Yoga Community
A grieving student asked for meditation, and a whole class practiced for her. Teacher Jodi Langevin on kula, the intentional community that forms on the mat.
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Yoga and Suicide Awareness: A Veteran's Story
Military veteran and teacher Rafael Rivera shares how yoga and the Revolution community helped him heal after deployment, and where veterans can find support.