en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/743383 Comments by yogi tobye http://www.elephantjournal.com/2014/08/bks-iyengar-admitted-to-hospitals-critical-care-unit/#IDComment865925510 Currently on kidney dialysis. Be well Guruji. Mon, 18 Aug 2014 00:55:42 +0000 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2014/08/bks-iyengar-admitted-to-hospitals-critical-care-unit/#IDComment865925510 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/04/victim-or-vigilante-discerning-the-difference-while-staying-on-the-path-maya-devi-georg-and-chris-courtney/#IDComment623114388 I have an Irish friend who grew up in Iraq in the 60's, in the time he lived there, there was something like 7 coups and 3 wars, but he says the Iraqi people were just normal folk just like you and me, going about their business the same as we do, wanting peace and prosperity the same as we do. There are just as many fundamentalists who seek violence, here as there are there. We're all basically the same, we deserve the right to have our own cultures peacefully respected no matter where we live, and for a lot of us in the West, we can actually CHOOSE where we want to live. Any kind of violence we partake in is really only violence towards ourselves. Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:31:05 +0000 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/04/victim-or-vigilante-discerning-the-difference-while-staying-on-the-path-maya-devi-georg-and-chris-courtney/#IDComment623114388 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/03/breaking-arctic-ice-breaks-up-in-beaufort-sea-paul-beckwith/#IDComment602772624 Calm down and stop being abusive and insulting to everyone that doesn't have the same opinion as you/ Whether you're opinion is right or not, doesn't excuse you from being rude and nasty/ I have my belief. I feel that we are connected to everything and I certainly don't believe we have even a modicum of control over anything. You've analysed this whole thread and over-zealously thrown shit in the faces of anyone different from yourself, give yourself a pat on the back for being today's cyber-troll. Sun, 24 Mar 2013 02:14:22 +0000 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/03/breaking-arctic-ice-breaks-up-in-beaufort-sea-paul-beckwith/#IDComment602772624 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/03/breaking-arctic-ice-breaks-up-in-beaufort-sea-paul-beckwith/#IDComment602463934 We have this strange arrogance about how "we caused it to happen". A funny species we are that's thinks itself completely disconnected from Nature unless we're organic, vegan and low impact cyclists. Nature controls our every thought and move. If Nature didn't want it to happen, you can damn well be sure it wouldn't happen. Unless you have every last little bit of datum, it's impossible to draw a conclusion and say that it's our use of fossil fuels that is causing this. Cities submerged under seas, oceans and lakes around the world show the the human race has been around a lot longer than scientists originally thought and that we've adapted and survived through several major cataclysmic climate changes. We're still learning about climate in the same way that we're still learning about everything else and in the grand scheme of things we've only been around for the most briefest moment of time. I'm not saying lets ignore it and keep burning up resources that are precious to our Earth but if you just look at Climatology without looking at Geology, Anthropology and all the other ologies, you're not going to see the big picture. Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:54:26 +0000 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/03/breaking-arctic-ice-breaks-up-in-beaufort-sea-paul-beckwith/#IDComment602463934 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/03/hey-cnn-what-the-fck-sara-crolick/#IDComment599243172 Woman anchor.... Woman OB reporter, both are responsible for the twisted angle they took from this story. Like Tina says above; "Rape essentially" WTF? A lot of countries have problems with rape cases actually getting in to court, but America's treatment of women has to change. Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:58:09 +0000 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/03/hey-cnn-what-the-fck-sara-crolick/#IDComment599243172 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/03/why-daily-deal-offer-are-bad-for-yoga/#IDComment584071798 Yeah, there's been a few studios here in Ireland that have fallen because of these groupon/livingsocial scams. Séan's idea is great... had that one myself as well.... visitor class passes so peeps can check out what's on offer over the road. Maybe there's some insecurity about yogis leaving your studio, but if they do then there'll be new peeps joining as well, so it's "swings and roundabouts" There's no real fast way to get people in the door of a studio I don't reckon, only sustained, authentic teaching that gets spread around by word of mouth. But peeps seem to be very distracted at the moment, it's very hard to get new students to commit to a practice unless you can cut them some kind of financial deal. So I can see how owners may fall into the voucher trap. Sun, 3 Mar 2013 22:34:52 +0000 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/03/why-daily-deal-offer-are-bad-for-yoga/#IDComment584071798 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/10/why-i-dont-say-namaste/#IDComment456704648 Right back at ya Kate! ;) Sat, 6 Oct 2012 11:44:49 +0000 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/10/why-i-dont-say-namaste/#IDComment456704648 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/10/why-i-dont-say-namaste/#IDComment455982568 It's nice just to say thank you at the end of class... and actually mean it. Fri, 5 Oct 2012 11:58:08 +0000 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/10/why-i-dont-say-namaste/#IDComment455982568 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/10/why-i-dont-say-namaste/#IDComment455981477 I stopped saying it and the end of my classes. It is cliché and peeps do just roll it off the tongue without a thought to it's true meaning... Like Jaaaaysus!! You don't tell someone you love them at the end of a class do you? But the expression has the same weight as far as I'm concerned. Fri, 5 Oct 2012 11:56:16 +0000 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/10/why-i-dont-say-namaste/#IDComment455981477 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/09/stephen-cope-changed-my-life-he-might-change-yours-too/#IDComment450580194 If you suggest reading it Bob, I'm going to read it. Simple as. Stephen Mitchell's Gita translation is one of my faves now! A couple of books for my winter reading list methinks :) Fri, 28 Sep 2012 08:58:29 +0000 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/09/stephen-cope-changed-my-life-he-might-change-yours-too/#IDComment450580194 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/09/should-a-yogi-want-to-be-beautiful/#IDComment447584696 Happens for men too! It has only been the open hearts of yoga friends that has helped me see the unique qualities I have as a portly male yoga teacher and the benefits it they give me. I actually once had a work colleague say to me; "Why would anybody be interested in you? You're one ugly F435er!" The constant taunting I had at school for being fat, has shaped my DNA as well as the way I see myself. And it takes years to train yourself out of that mindset. Tiredness and stress will always bring it back, but yoga helps me sense how others really feel about me I find. Anyhoo, you're looking babeliscious if you ask me! (I just made that word up didn't I?) Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:47:34 +0000 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/09/should-a-yogi-want-to-be-beautiful/#IDComment447584696 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/09/to-date-or-not-to-date-thoughts-questions-onteacherstudent-romances/#IDComment445718394 Actually, in one of your later comments below, you talk about lack of effort put into getting to know someone. That definitely doesn't happen! That particular experience I had, I'd told the girl that I'd like to get to know her, to which she replied; "I don't want to get into a relationship with anyone" I would have liked to get to know her to see if I WANTED a relationship with her! Why are we all in such a rush? My non-yoga friends make fun of me for "making friends with a girl too fast" instead of trying to get into her pants as fast as possible! What's for you won't pass you by, so cool the engines :) I have lots of platonic yogini friends who I was initially attracted to.... didn't push things and they're my closest friends now. So yeah, you're right. We need to take more effort to get to know people... yoga peeps or otherwise! Fri, 21 Sep 2012 23:28:55 +0000 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/09/to-date-or-not-to-date-thoughts-questions-onteacherstudent-romances/#IDComment445718394 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/09/to-date-or-not-to-date-thoughts-questions-onteacherstudent-romances/#IDComment445705913 You learn and you live :) Fri, 21 Sep 2012 23:08:21 +0000 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/09/to-date-or-not-to-date-thoughts-questions-onteacherstudent-romances/#IDComment445705913 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/09/to-date-or-not-to-date-thoughts-questions-onteacherstudent-romances/#IDComment443328932 People seem to think I should act in a certain manner because I'm a yoga teacher or, that they can't date me because I'm not into alcohol or eating meat etc. It's judgment... Judging others to be a certain way because they are A,B or C when in actual fact they're probably D. Sometimes it takes some time to work out they're E and not B and then the shit hits the proverbial fan.... "I thought you were different" I got that after having a huge argument with a girl who had known me for like 2 weeks and used me for sex before going on to the literal next guy! How could she have possibly know who I was? It takes years of openess to actually realise who a person is really!! Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:01:13 +0000 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/09/to-date-or-not-to-date-thoughts-questions-onteacherstudent-romances/#IDComment443328932 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/04/how-to-care-for-introverts-in-12-easy-steps/#IDComment415880465 ENFP that's me! Sun, 5 Aug 2012 15:55:05 +0000 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/04/how-to-care-for-introverts-in-12-easy-steps/#IDComment415880465 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/07/are-yoga-festivals-evolving-into-mindless-meat-fests-kim-amlong/#IDComment411591513 Here's Kim not guilt tripping everyone “Every Morsel of Meat we Eat is Slapping the Tear-stained Face of a Hungry Child.” And here's her not being judgmental and controlling "I am extremely disappointed that yoga teachers that I respect would actually take part in festivals offering meat and fish and every other type of animal secretion. It would be wonderful if all yoga teachers would unify and pledge to not participate in any festival unless it is cruelty-free or at least vegetarian." Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:34:45 +0000 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/07/are-yoga-festivals-evolving-into-mindless-meat-fests-kim-amlong/#IDComment411591513 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/07/are-yoga-festivals-evolving-into-mindless-meat-fests-kim-amlong/#IDComment411588852 Humans are actually designed to eat meat as well and there are significant amounts of research done that show, not only do we need animal protein (especially saturated animal fat), but that it has actually shaped what we are as a species. I hear ya on the over-fishing and the use of livestock, but balance has to be found and the way that vegetables are consumed is no-less detrimental on a large scale. It is impossible to yield huge crops organically and the only way money can be made from vegetables is by growing huge crops. You have to look at the big picture. I know of vegans who have been told by their Ayurvedic Doctors that they HAVE to eat red meat. Only small amounts, but still, to stay healthy they have to do it and they know their body needs it. I've tried to be vegetarian, I mostly am. But sometimes I need meat, that's just the way I'm built. If you can live totally vegan, that's great, I can't. But, that's the way I feel is natural for us all.... Mostly vegetarian...every now and again meat. That is what I believe and the scientific research is there to back up my belief. You ever hear about the American woman that kept a Chimpanzee as a pet? Had it for years till it grew to full maturity. Then, one day without warning, it ate her friends face off. Just sat there munching on it until the Police came and killed it! Sure but Chimps only eat bananas no? You're not outside of Nature Kelley, you're not some unique, special species which can put itself aside of nature and try to control what happens. If Nature had wanted us to be vegetarian, She wouldn't have made animals out of food. Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:28:07 +0000 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/07/are-yoga-festivals-evolving-into-mindless-meat-fests-kim-amlong/#IDComment411588852 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/07/are-yoga-festivals-evolving-into-mindless-meat-fests-kim-amlong/#IDComment411578806 Thanks Dennis :D Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:01:36 +0000 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/07/are-yoga-festivals-evolving-into-mindless-meat-fests-kim-amlong/#IDComment411578806 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/07/what-can-we-do-a-culture-of-compassion-begets-compassion/#IDComment407526186 For sure! I wish they made films about guys dealing with that kinda stuff in another way. From personal experience love and respect is stronger than violence.... from personal experience I said, I've tried it, it works ;) Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:32:30 +0000 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/07/what-can-we-do-a-culture-of-compassion-begets-compassion/#IDComment407526186 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/07/what-can-we-do-a-culture-of-compassion-begets-compassion/#IDComment406058302 TV the drug of the nation. Every other show is some kind of cops and bad guys, crime/guns/fighting thing. And Batman? What is all that about? Everyone is using the Batman image as some kind of support? "Winnie the pooh and tigger too" is compassion not "Batman 4" or 5 or whatever. Stop the whole interest and sensationalism on TV and in the movies for horror/guns/violence/crime/hatred because every mad man thinks he's fighting the good fight, taking down the bad guys when, in actual fact, there ARE NO BAD GUYS, just people reacting to a situation the only way they know how. We talk about compassion, but how many people in the US actually KNOW and TAKE INTEREST in their neighbour? And, the second amendment is killing you all and keeping you prisoners in your own country!! If it's not metal detectors in schools and shopping malls, it's fear of your own fellow man. Americans are known globally as a nation of permanently paranoid people that are scared witless of everyone and everything. You have a right to life and bearing arms isn't life, it's death. It doesn't protect you, it keeps you wrapped in chains of your own paranoia and delusion! WAKE UP! SMELL THE COFFEE! Towns in Colorado are voting against the selling of medical marijihuana, but quite happily living with the second amendment and gross alcohol abuse! Sat, 21 Jul 2012 06:34:52 +0000 http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/07/what-can-we-do-a-culture-of-compassion-begets-compassion/#IDComment406058302