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    And this is what you wanted to say to each other...
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • May 27, 2020
    • 3 min

    And this is what you wanted to say to each other...

    After a couple of months of daily quarantine meditations, we asked what was helpful and unhelpful. You also asked how to be in touch. So...
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    Two permeable poems
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • May 26, 2020
    • 1 min

    Two permeable poems

    A poem by Susan Crozier... drawn from sharings in my "Out of Nowhere" online program...and a recent Dharma talk on an online retreat...
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    We don't know what we don't know
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • May 23, 2020
    • 10 min

    We don't know what we don't know

    From today's meditation with Jin Shin Jyutsu. Just to give you a taste. I left out the questions and sharing after the meditation, but...
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    New meditations, channel and ideas about deep rest
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • May 14, 2020
    • 1 min

    New meditations, channel and ideas about deep rest

    New Insight Timer meditations from two of my recent daily meditations...many thanks to Frances Hearndenji for getting these recordings...
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    Empowering and easing the heart
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Apr 29, 2020
    • 2 min

    Empowering and easing the heart

    The heart and deep rest... On a month-long work retreat in 1989 or so, I remember being so bored with the teachings that I would drift...
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    Breathing in the cells, freeing the life in us
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Apr 28, 2020
    • 1 min

    Breathing in the cells, freeing the life in us

    Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen gave this experiential session in breathing in embodied anatomy...it will be available free only for another few...
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    Joy's web
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Apr 26, 2020
    • 1 min

    Joy's web

    In Joy Harjo's memoir, Crazy Brave, she opens her life story with this, in italics and with a big "O" to start out with Once: "Once I...
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    Dance tonight
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Apr 22, 2020
    • 1 min

    Dance tonight

    Here is my birthday dance playlist. This just might be the beginning of a good tradition! Hania Cennerrazzo, a friend of almost 30 years...
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    The first quarantine meditation
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Apr 17, 2020
    • 5 min

    The first quarantine meditation

    2020 3 16 Simple meditation Feet, back, breath What would it be like to live in a world where there's enough time for meditation?...
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    Some questions that come up + Upcoming events
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Apr 1, 2020
    • 2 min

    Some questions that come up + Upcoming events

    ~What is important? ~How are you doing? ~What are you doing these days that is new, whether because of the outer circumstances, or for...
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    At home and well...hand positions and bird info for fun and inspiration
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Mar 21, 2020
    • 1 min

    At home and well...hand positions and bird info for fun and inspiration

    Several places to go for inspiration and information that can help us connect, with no cost: Jin Shin Jyutsu on yourself, just simply...
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    Finding the eye of the storm
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Mar 16, 2020
    • 4 min

    Finding the eye of the storm

    With sudden and unexpected changes in the last week especially, many people have found themselves in touch with deep, grungy dynamics and...
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    The pan in pandemic
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Mar 12, 2020
    • 2 min

    The pan in pandemic

    Thanks to Sanda Spasic for sharing this beautiful fable about smallpox, from Living Fearlessly by Sri Paramahamsa Yogananda. As we follow...
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    "All I’m looking for is a signal of your humanity."
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Mar 5, 2020
    • 6 min

    "All I’m looking for is a signal of your humanity."

    " 'You know, Colonel, there’s absolutely nothing you can give me. I don’t want your money. You can’t give me my husband back. All I’m...
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    3 ancient operating systems
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Mar 2, 2020
    • 2 min

    3 ancient operating systems

    (Photo (c) Jaya Julienne Ashmore, 2020.) I am grateful to the ways my friends and students continually enrich my ways of experiencing...
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    What if the world is alive with imperatives of its own...
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Feb 28, 2020
    • 1 min

    What if the world is alive with imperatives of its own...

    Going beyond the beliefs and habits of lack that helped bring us to this current situation... from the "Wilds Beyond Climate Justice"~ a...
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    Recovering contact with and in aliveness
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Feb 18, 2020
    • 3 min

    Recovering contact with and in aliveness

    Tami Simon interviews Micah Mortali about his workshops and writing on Rewilding (link below). Mortali shares key ideas from the field of...
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    Does being kind to yourself block your wish to grow?
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Feb 6, 2020
    • 2 min

    Does being kind to yourself block your wish to grow?

    Dr. Kristin Neff on self-compassion in an interview with Jason Marsh, chief editor of Greater Good at the University of California at...
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    When we let love love, what unlocks?
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Jan 29, 2020
    • 1 min

    When we let love love, what unlocks?

    Call and response with David Whyte's poem Self Portrait--thank you to Annette Valentinji for sharing it with me this week. What...
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    The main thing is to have fun and save the world.
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Jan 16, 2020
    • 6 min

    The main thing is to have fun and save the world.

    I invented this storytelling game last summer while hanging out with my family in a cabin where there were games about brand name trivia...
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