https://pdxyogini.com/2009/06/30/this-body/ Reflections from the deep end of Practice. Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:32:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.3 https://pdxyogini.com/2009/06/30/this-body/#comment-317 Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:32:14 +0000 http://pdxyogini.com/2009/06/30/this-body/#comment-317 You Sir/Madam are the enemy of confusion eeryvwhree!

]]> https://pdxyogini.com/2009/06/30/this-body/#comment-183 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:56:24 +0000 http://pdxyogini.com/2009/06/30/this-body/#comment-183 Jeremy, thanks so much for taking the time to write your comment. I really am liking thinking about the idea of seeing oneself as a verb instead of a noun!And thanks for sharing your idea of community through Yarp?!

]]> https://pdxyogini.com/2009/06/30/this-body/#comment-181 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:04:25 +0000 http://pdxyogini.com/2009/06/30/this-body/#comment-181 Seems to me that part of humanities curse is that we tend to see ourselves as nouns; implying something fixed and static, rather than what we truly are: verbs. I think folks would be a lot more happy and comfortable with themselves if they'd remember that we are constantly in a state of movement and change. That may calm our inconsistent and contradictory natures.Regardless, thanks for sharing such deeply personal stuff. I was the bell it resounded through. When I was in my twenties and early thirties I was a very attractive man (according to the "standards"). The problem is that I didn't fully appreciate or understand what it means to be "attractive" in our society; from charisma assisting in getting a "good job" to the benefits to dating that come with good looks. Now that I am old and ugly (well not really, but definitely not a "looker" like I was) I see just how screwed up society is about beauty/attractiveness. I think part of the reason why Yarp?! strives for "ugliness" is as a response to this mechanism in society.Frankly, as I age what I find attractive is less the surface crap and more the inner individual; perhaps it's because with us guys our sex drive lessens as we age (thank goodness). Anyhow, thanks again for sharing. I really appreciate it.

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