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Student Stories: Rebuilding Elaine

This is an excerpt from a Full Circle student in a story series we call "Rebuilding." I'm grateful for every aspect of Full Circle this week, even the challenging parts of it. The way I've been eating has been such a welcome to my body. I'm no longer tired for no reason, and I feel that my focus has improved. Now, I nourish my body without thought. It's an awesome change for me. During this last mediation session, I was struck with the realization that the challenges I experienced during the week were learning moments. I now understand that it's through these challenges where I grow -- truly grow. I'm a person who has Epileptic seizures. They're not violent and they happen rather quickly. I've never let that stop...

THE YOGI LIFESTYLE by Alejandra Calatayud

Before Yoga got to western shores as a new-age commodity to counter the hectic society we have created, it was an ancient tradition dating as far back as the Vedas, the oldest scriptures of Hinduism. Inevitably across time and space, Yoga’s real meaning and objectives have been lost in translation to many of the practitioners of the last century. The traditional yoga practice is about searching for a union between body, mind and soul --- by no means a simple task. Certainly not something that can be achieved by stopping by the gym’s weekly yoga class and saying ‘namaste’ to the tattoo covered, pony tailed, attractive man in front of the class. Being a yogi is a lifestyle. It is not achieved on the last...