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Thursday, 10 April 2014

America's youngest yoga teacher (video)

Yogi Seven, Amber Larson, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; Reuters via DailyMail

What if everyone could do yoga -- the union of body, breath (spirit), and mind? (MY)

Fitness in a cup: Can harmful caffeine influence workout routines? It seems so. According to research, those with a nasty caffeine habit can exercise more. "Science" says so! (vogue.it)

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Can caffeine influence your fitness routine? It seems so. According to a research, those with a regular caffeine intake can exercise more successfully
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A whole new meaning to child's pose! Meet America's youngest yoga teacher

Mike Blake, Mary Milliken (Reuters.com)/Mail Online (April 9, 2014)

Yoga Master Jaysea DeVoe (Reuters)

Jaysea DeVoe [deva?] is a yoga instructor. She has the challenging job of teaching fidgety preschoolers the ancient spiritual practice, but once her charges get going, she says, "They really start to focus and listen."

DeVoe knows a thing or two about childhood and focus, for she is only 12-years-old and just recently became a certified yoga instructor after completing 200 hours of teacher training. She is believed to be the youngest certified female yoga instructor in the U.S.

I'm not taking her class (vogue.it/en)

Twelve-year-old certified yoga instructor Jaysea DeVoe teaches her yoga class at Bergamot Spa in California.

In addition to her pint-sized students aged four to six, she teaches teens and fellow tweens in her California beach town of Encinitas and is about to start a family yoga class. Oh, and she just told her dad she wants to look into making eco-friendly yoga mats.

If Suey Park is busy, maybe I...can try yoga?

"I feel like I want to do this for a long time because I love teaching so much," says DeVoe, the picture of a California beach girl, with long blond hair and long legs to match. But DeVoe is not alone in her entrepreneurial zeal. Her twin brother, 12, is a sponsored competitive surfer and works at a surfboard fin manufacturing company. [So move to California now and you, too, can raise prodigies!] More

Perspective as a Power Tool: 3 Ways to Change the Way We See Things

Zoe Kors (layoga.com)

I wouldn't take her class either, but Woody'$

"I kind of quit surfing when I got out of high school, but then a few years ago I started to take it up again. I'm not an expert by any means, but it's so wonderful to get out in the ocean and get a different perspective on things." - Actor Jeff Bridges

It's part of the human condition that we come upon challenging moments when it feels like people in our lives, or even life itself, are wearing us down. Or perhaps there is a specific aspect of a situation or relationship that is showing up as a persistent source of discomfort. At these times... More

Friend Miely and yoga instructor Jaysea DeVoe (Mike Blake/Reuters.com)

Cycling through the Day for Mindful Practice – The Body/Mind Types

Felicia M. Tomasko (layoga.com, April 4, 2014)

Click for INTERACTIVE mag

According to Ayurveda [Vedic science of health], the energetic qualities of the doshas (or body/mind types: vata, pitta, and kapha) rotate throughout the day. So different influences predominate during different portions of the day. They can affect our practices of poses (asana), pranayama (spirit control), and meditation as well as our strength, state of mind, mood, and more. As yoga therapists, acknowledging and understanding these cycles can help us more effectively work with clients and students. The inherent qualities of the doshas have a strong influence... We can fight against or flow with and utilize practice to help find balance... More

Jaysea on ukelele (Reuters)

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Tuesday, 18 February 2014

Satanic teen girl goes on killing spree (video)

Ashley Wells, Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; Newsrender.com; The Associated Press; NJ.com; The Daily Item; Slayer; Dimmu Borgir

In court, the beautiful yakshini (ogress) Miranda Barbour, 19, is tired of killing (AP).

I have a swastika neck tattoo.

"KILL AGAIN" (Slayer): "Lurking in a dismal fog/ Hungry for your blood/ Seeking harmless victims/ Satisfy my need.// Schizophrenic lunatic/ Uncontrolled desire/ Rape and ravage lady fair/ Pledged to die// [CHORUS:] No apparent motive/ Kill and kill again/ Survive my brutal thrashing/ I'll hunt you till the end/ My life's a constant battle/ The rage of many men/ Homicidal maniac!// Trapped in mortal solitude/ Lift the gleaming blade/ Slice the flesh to shreds/ Watch the blood flow free// Hatred growing stronger/ None survive my wrath/ Suffer from the throbbing pain/ Yield your life to me.../ Chorus// Unrelenting need to kill/ Death upon you now/ Anxiously awaiting/ Next in line!"

Teen Killing Spree: less than 100 victims

Why? Miranda Barbour was molested since the age of 4 by her stepfather. Thanks, "dad."

Admittedly, maybe I got carried away.

SUNBURY - A Pennsylvania teen charged along with her newlywed husband with killing a man they met through Craigslist admitted to more slayings.

In a jailhouse interview with a newspaper, she said she has killed less than [100] other people across the country [and remembers where 22 of the bodies are buried]. Police claim they are investigating.

In an interview with The Daily Item in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, 19-year-old Miranda Dean now Mrs. Elytte Barbour [who says she began killing at age 13 as part of a Satanic cult] said she wants to plead guilty to killing Troy LaFerrara in November.

Yakshi, Guimet Museum

She also said in the interview she has killed at least 22 other people from Alaska to North Carolina in the last six years as part of her involvement in a Satanic cult.

"I feel it is time to get all of this out. I don't care if people believe me. I just want to get it out," Barbour told the newspaper for a story published Saturday night. More

Satanic: Dimmu Borgir "Blood Hunger Doctrine" (Death Cult Armageddon)

Not the first: Return of the Deadly Yakshi (female ogre)

A Buddhist "ogress" (yakshini)

Wisdom Quarterly (Wikipedia edit)

Hey, S happens when you work for Satan and fellow cult members who later deny you.

Yakkhas, Ventiane, Laos (Lucille Cottin/flickr)

What is a yakkha? In some lists (e.g., PvA. 45, 55) they range immediately above ghosts (petas); in fact, some of the happier ghosts are called yakkhas. Elsewhere (e.g., A.ii.38) they rank, in progressive order, between humans (manussā) and low ranking messenger-angels or fairies (gandhabbā). They are of many different kinds: spirits, ogres, dryads, ghosts, spooks. In the early records yakkha, like nāgā, as an appellative, was anything but depreciative. Thus, not only is Sakka, King of the Devas, referred to as a yakkha (M.i.252; J.iv.4; DA.i.264), but even the Buddha is spoken of as one in poetic diction (M.i.386). Many gods (devas), such as Kakudha, are so addressed (S.i.54). More

Yakshi, 3rd cent. BC, Patna Museum

Yakshinis (Sanskrit याक्षिणि, Pali yakkhini) are mythical beings in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain mythology.

A yakshini is the female counterpart of the male yakkha/yaksha (ogre, demon, monster). They both attend on Kubera, the Hindu god of wealth, who rules in the mythical Himalayan kingdom of Alaka [Buddhist Alavaka/Alavi?] They look after treasure hidden in the Earth and resemble fairies. Yakshinis are often depicted as beautiful and voluptuous, with wide hips, narrow waists, broad shoulders, and exaggerated, spherical breasts.

In the Uddamareshvara Tantra, 36 yakshinis are described, including their mantras and ritual prescriptions. A similar list of yakshas and yakshinis is given in the Tantraraja Tantra, where it says that these beings are givers of whatever is desired. Although they are usually benevolent, there are also yakshinis with malevolent characteristics in Indian folklore.

The list of 36 yakshinis given in the Uddamareshvara Tantra runs as follows:

Vichitra (The Strange One)
Vibhrama (The Amorous One)
Hamsi (Swan)
Bhishani (The Terrifying)
Janaranjika (The People Entertainer)
Vishala (The Large Eyed)
Madhana (Lustful)... More

(EA) Slayer, "Praise of Death," The Ritz, New York, 1986

1 in 4 Americans don't know Earth revolves around Sun

(NEWSER) To put the brightest possible spin on this story is to say that three-quarters of Americans are fully aware that the Earth revolves around the sun. The downside, of course, is that means 1 in 4 are in the dark about what Discovery calls "probably the most basic question in science." The National Science Foundation asked that question and nine others of 2,200 Americans, with the average score on the quiz coming in at 6.5, reports Phys.org. Some other results noted by NPR:

39% answered correctly that "the universe began with a huge explosion."
Fewer than half -- 48% -- agreed that "human beings...developed from earlier species of animals." More