Monthly Archives: July 2010

Noticing is Living

By Jennah Synnestvedt | Published: July 28, 2010
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!

By Jennah Synnestvedt | Published: July 24, 2010
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 [...]
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The Suitcase of Creativity’s Past

By Jennah Synnestvedt | Published: July 14, 2010
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?

By Jennah Synnestvedt | Published: July 9, 2010
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 [...]
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Working My Way Out of a Tweet Length World

By Jennah Synnestvedt | Published: July 8, 2010
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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