Author Archives: Jennah Synnestvedt
Noticing is Living
So many shoulds, woulds and coulds exist, we often times forget that all we need to water our self is pure awareness. Shoulds are all around us as formulas and logic that must be followed for the best possible outcome. Woulds weigh upon our hearts and souls as disbelief that something can’t be as good [...]
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Thank You Tao Porchon-Lynch!
The only air flowing in the NYC summer hot room at Strala Yoga today was the breath of many yogis who were gathered to soak up the nearly 90 year old Tao Porchon-Lynch’s wisdom. Even though I could hardly hear Tao with her soft voice in the large studio, I was struck and inspired by [...]
The Suitcase of Creativity’s Past
No joke, for the past five years, I’ve held on to a disgusting, old suitcase (a street find) that is filled with much of my student work from Pratt Institute. Until today, it’s musty confines not only housed finished work, but folders and stacks of “the process”(ie sketches, scraps and drafts) as well as unfinished [...]
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Competition Part One, the Question: Is it healthy?
Who are you in competition with? Your job? The people on the yoga mat next to you? Your diet? Yourself? Do you even know whether or not you’re in competition? Perhaps you don’t. We are trained to look at competition as something we just do, so much so that we unconsciously act from it quite [...]
Posted in Authentic Yoga Training July 2010 1 Comment
Working My Way Out of a Tweet Length World
I tweet a lot. 140 characters to say something profound. Easy. And a great way to avoid a coherent, grounded manifestation. This is what I just realized as I sat down to write a blog entry entitled, “Compassion Over Competition: Practicing Yoga with Love & Light”. I have all the pieces that would be great [...]
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Neutrality to Resistance: Loving Yourself through Transformation
Resistance often gets a bad rap and is laden with self-judgment, but what if we were to look at it as a natural part of the growth process? Like a caterpillar’s cocoon. After all, resisting resistance breeds more resistance. What if we welcome resistance with gratitude for providing a safe & cozy zone to release [...]
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DO NOT [energetically] PICK UP TAR BALLS. Choose Light & Love for Change.
Yes, the oil spill is our society’s environmentally unaware lifestyle bubbling to the surface to be acknowledged. It is of upmost importance that we do not get stuck in empathy or attach to fear in this situation. Energetically, it is like picking up sticky tar balls, paralyzing us with fear and making the situation an [...]
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EYES FOR DESIGN: Introduction & BodyTalk Session 1
So here it is, an intro video for the Eyes for Design project. Watch how language is important in setting a clear & effective intention:-) I must admit, entering into this agreement took quite a bit of letting go from me. For some reason there was a lot of fear about having BodyTalk sessions “done [...]
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Summer Reading List: Studious Self Here I come!
Just when I claimed I was done reading books, comes a reading list for the yoga training I’m doing in July, and a recommendations from Tori. Looks like I’m living my own tweets: “Ever say never only to find that is exactly when?”, “Give an ultimatum, and you’ll receive the opposite.”, “Letting yourself have one [...]
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