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Winter Solstice - Kindling for the New Season

Rebecca Anne

Nov 25, 2018
1 min

Winter Solstice - Kindling for the New Season

A pop-up class in the All That Matters PVD studio! Spend the longest night of the year with fellow yogis kindling our inner light and wisdom. Using mantra, asana, and pranayama, fuel yourself to greet the winter season and welcome the return of longer days and light. All levels welcome. Regular class rates apply, including using an ATM membership, class pass, or simply dropping in. Pre-registration available online or through www.allthatmatters.com. #yoga #solstice #winter #

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Rebecca Anne

Oct 18, 2018
1 min

Beyond the Mat: This is Yoga

I sit in the crisp fall night on a wooden bench, wrapped in a scarf & gloves, feeling a touch of chill pass over my face. I listen to the wind conducting the trees & leaves in the harmony of a song sung as a round. I watch the fast-moving thin clouds pass over the half full moon with the cotton ball clouds hanging on the horizon. I smell the earthy scents of nature preparing for winter’s hibernation. I taste the sweet leaves of my chamomile tea. This is Yoga. I am simply g

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Rebecca Anne

Sep 22, 2018
3 min

Beyond the Mat: Ahimsa in life

As my experience with my 300 hour yoga training and immersion began last weekend, we have been invited in the weeks until our next meeting to explore the yamas within the experiences, thoughts, patterns, and wanderings of the daily experience. The root of the 8 Limbs of Yoga are the yamas, codified by Patañjali in the Yoga Sutras, are the yamas. The yamas are external ethical principles to guide ones’ interactions with the world around them. They are guides for how we inter

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Beyond the Mat: Change. Fear. Fear. Change.

Rebecca Anne

Sep 9, 2018
1 min

Beyond the Mat: Change. Fear. Fear. Change.

I’ve applied to begin the journey of a 300-hour yoga immersion called Beyond Asana at All That Matters . I’ve begun the first readings for Q1. I’ll share here bits that strike me - here’s one for today. “Change is frightening but where there’s fear, there’s power. If we learn to feel our fear without letting it stop us, fear can become an ally...Often our true strength is not in the things that represent what is familiar, comfortable, or positive but in our fear and even in

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Beyond the Mat: Offering for Community Matters PVD

Rebecca Anne

Jul 30, 2018
1 min

Beyond the Mat: Offering for Community Matters PVD

My intention to write more in 2018 has been on a touch of a hiatus. No true reason why - just is how it has been. This said, I recently was back at it as a contributor to the blog forum for Community Matters PVD. In the first third of the year, our community highlighted the work of Women’s Refugee Care & the needs of refugee families from the Great Lakes Region of Africa (Congo, Burundi and Rwanda) - referred to as ECGLC - arriving to Providence to build their homes here. Yo

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Rebecca Anne

Jan 16, 2018
2 min

Beyond the Mat: Writing more in 2018

For quite a while now, I have been wanting to write more - to discover more about and nurture my voice via the written word. On our New Year's Day brunch, when my friends and I talked about intentions for 2018 for ourselves, I described wanting to write more. I didn't give parameters as to exact what this meant or where the writing would be done. (True confessions though, building out my blogging was certainly on my mind). I didn't want to set out with this intention with

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Rebecca Anne

Jan 1, 2018
1 min

Beyond the Mat: Intentions for 2018

For the past four (or it may be five....) years, I have ended the year with a workshop from Sara Davidson Flanders of Full Radiance. It has become a ritual for me to move with intentionality from a full 365 days of experiences into a new set of 365 days of opportunities and challenges to explore. This year was no different - and 45+ yogis moved, chanted, and meditated on offerings to ourselves, others, and the universe. An amazing experience of community and empowerment. A

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Rebecca Anne

Nov 29, 2017
1 min

Grounded in Gratitude: 11/28/17

https://www.yogajournal.com/yoga-101/7-ways-to-start-a-gratitude-journaling-practice #yoga #gratitude #quotes #Gratitudejournaling #Journal

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Rebecca Anne

Sep 29, 2017
1 min

Grounded in Gratitude: 9/28/17

It was about 10 years ago when I started regularly taking yoga classes at All That Matters. That blossomed into weekly extended workshop-style classes in yogic philosophy & application to the asanas (physical postures) with a teacher with whom I've now spent significant time studying. The blossoming opened wider in September 2012 when I started my first 200 hour training. I didn't initially endeavor to be a teacher. Rather, I was simply interested in deepening my exposure,

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Grounded in Gratitude: 9/24/17 - 9/25/17

Rebecca Anne

Sep 25, 2017
1 min

Grounded in Gratitude: 9/24/17 - 9/25/17

A warm September overnight at Kripalu has left me wanting to, not only acknowledge what I am grateful for, but to share AND invite those reading to do the same. Starting with this post, I am committing (publicly) to intentionally recognizing, as close to daily as possible, one or more aspects of my day, week, month, year or lifetime which leave me with feeling humble, happy, and filled with gratitude. So for this R&R trip, I am grateful for nature. The scenery: the vista from

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Rebecca Anne

Aug 4, 2017
1 min

Beyond the Mat: Invinsible Summer

Summer highlights. “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there's something stronger — something better, pushing right back.” ~ Albert Camus #photopgraphy #meals #ChezRebeccaAnne #yoga #homecooking

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Rebecca Anne

Jul 23, 2017
2 min

Beyond the mat: Beauty all around me

In my teacher training with Cathy Cesario of Spirit Tree Yoga & Healing Practices, there was a mantra of deep and layered meaning - for us as individuals and for us as a collective tribe: "Beauty all around me". As I practiced a slow Sunday morning flow this morning on the beach with Coral Brown and the yogis of All That Matters Yoga and Holistic Health Center, this mantra was ever present. Overnight, the humidity dropped and the northeasterly breeze picked up. The clouds

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Beyond the mat: Good vibrations with an exhale

Rebecca Anne

Jul 7, 2017
1 min

Beyond the mat: Good vibrations with an exhale

While two very different songs, Good Vibrations from The Beach Boys and from Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch are both among my list of singing-real-loud-with-the-windows-rolled-down songs. The songs, and the singing and dancing that coincide, just remind you to let your hair down and be grateful to be alive. I often feel this sense of gratitude when I am on the beach, particularly at sunset or around a full moon. We are near to this month's full moon, and I was lucky enough to

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Rebecca Anne

Apr 17, 2017
2 min

Beyond the mat: All of the "re"s

A weekend of "re"s. Rejuvenate This was a purposeful long weekend for me, as I took Friday off from work to spend the day with two of my girlfriends. We spoiled ourselves and spent the day at the Ocean House to ring in K's "thirty-sexy", which is what she has taken to calling her 36th birthday. Mother Nature blessed us with a warm, clear, and barely breezy spring day. We enjoyed a service (or two for some) in the spa - had lunch overlooking the ocean and the view of Block

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Rebecca Anne

Aug 4, 2016
1 min

Attn RI - free yoga opportunity

Starting THIS Saturday, August 6 - Central Falls, Rhode Island residents can enjoy a weekly yoga class at Shri Yoga for FREE! All levels and abilities are welcome - that includes any beginners who have always wanted to give yoga a try. Here's your chance! The logistics: For Central Falls residents, please bring an ID or a Shri card to show at the door. For residents of other RI or MA cities and towns, drop-in rates or class passes apply. Be sure to join the Shri Yoga commun

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