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Dec 24, 2021

Coffee Soup

I sit here in a Parisian café with a big mug of coffee soup. I had thought I ordered un cappuccino avoine sur place. (For my non francophone friends is a cappuccino with oat milk in a mug). …

Coffee Shop

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Coffee Soup
Coffee Soup

Dec 8, 2021

Secret Cycling Society of Paris

City of lights, sights, and sites but cycling? — When you move to a new city, people tell you it takes time to integrate. You find places to “break in”; clubs, organizations, work, activities, etc. What they don’t tell you is that some societies are more closed than others. Another thing they don’t tell you is that you integrate…

Cycling

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Secret Cycling Society of Paris
Secret Cycling Society of Paris

May 25, 2021

Diagnosing Hope

A diagnosis, seemingly helpful through its explanation, but questionably hopeful. Questionably hopeful. Hopeful because with identified problems there are identified solutions. Hopefully. With a disease, rare in nature, relatively unexplored, lacking in attention and resources that would help those who suffer from it, is hope lost? With a label for…

Diagnosis

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Diagnosing Hope
Diagnosing Hope

Jan 10, 2021

An Ode to Whiteness

We all have Privilege to some degree. As I type this on my computer, I am faced with my privilege. Perhaps as you read this on your smartphone, you have Privilege. And, simultaneously, we lack Privilege, economically, socially, racially, etc… As a half-white, white-passing woman, I’ve been born into great…

White Privilege

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Jul 11, 2020

Tips for beautiful at-home Yoga practice

Yoga at-home has never been so enticing and…needed. The overwhelming number of online classes and teachers, not to mention distractions in the home, can deter one from a Yoga session. However, learning how to structure an at-home Yoga session removes potential stressors that detract from this beautiful time with yourself. …

Yoga

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Tips for beautiful at-home Yoga practice
Tips for beautiful at-home Yoga practice

Jul 2, 2020

Wasted

Zero-waste, Sustainable packaging, Eco-friendly, Organic, Plastic-free, Reclyed Materials… terms that motivate and excite those who have goals to reduce their environmental footprint. Covid-19, Antibodies, Social-distancing, Epidemic, Pandemic, Sanitation, Vaccine; terms we are now familiar with due to the Coronavirus disease. The Coronavirus-2019 changed and is changing the way we live…

Plastic Free

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Jun 30, 2020

At-Home Yoga Tips

This year, my Yoga practice changed drastically. No longer are the days of practicing diligently in a studio, as I’ve reconciled welcoming new forms of practicing, a.k.a. online yoga. This transition is difficult, yet I am learning more about myself and my practice through this change. Most notably, I am…

Yoga At Home

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Jun 23, 2020

The true “Power Yoga” class

Darling, Yoga is a journey, as you must be familiar with to come this far. You have arrived at your mat for a multitude of reasons and you perhaps thought you knew your reason to return. You try explaining your love for your practice, but words cant translate. It is…

Yoga Teacher

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The true “Power Yoga” class
The true “Power Yoga” class

Jun 9, 2020

Take a Pose

All Yoga classes include a sequence of poses. The amount of poses varies based on the class. Yin or Restorative may include up to 10, while a Vinyasa may include upwards of 20. Yoga poses are referred to in Sanskrit as an “asana”. Modern disciplines of Yoga derived from the…

Yoga

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Take a Pose
Take a Pose

Apr 2, 2020

Why Yoga alignment is important

Not all yoga classes are created equally This is the beauty of Yoga: the fluidity, the ability to take what resonates with the individual and absorb messages or dogma that is suitable to their needs. As a perpetual yoga student, I observed that some yoga classes may lack the baseline (fundamental) information that is needed to practice…

Yoga

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Why Yoga alignment is important
Why Yoga alignment is important
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Natalie Hillyer

Certified Yoga Teacher, Photographer, Pun enthusiast @natalie_yone

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