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Riding the Marriage Bike Home

This is a story my husband Bob and I wrote together. It is a couple of decades years old, but it is still fun to read and worth sharing today. It was previously published in The Cracker Barrel, a Wilmington, VT magazine. Riding a bicycle for many miles can be a challenge for anyone. Riding 470 miles in 6 days over the Continental Divide twice, in temperatures ranging from 32 degrees to 99 degrees, well, this takes a certain mental

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Gratitude

How we approach life matters. Is your cup half full, or half empty? Two days ago I decided to set up our Christmas Tree, even though Bob was out-of-town visiting his mom who is going to turn 90 in a week! I went to the store, picked it out, a gentleman put it on my roof; I came home, rolled it off my roof, carried it around to the back of the house, brought it inside and put it in

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The Most Powerful Benefits of Yoga

Yoga’s one of the best practices you can add to your routine. It gives you a way to strengthen and sculpt your body, remove unwanted body fat and increase flexibility without the impact of traditional exercise. Not to mention there’s many other physical, spiritual and emotional benefits that can be achieved in very little time. We go into detail below but we’ve also wrapped the benefits into an infographic for fun. Check it out. Click here to read full article.

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Bringing Heart to Life

For me, it all started when I started to let go of the mental thought-processes of doubt, worry, and fear, and allowed myself to fall into heart-centered feelings of unconditional love and deep faith in a higher power. For me, it was a process of realizing that life was much more than using my intellect to figure things out, or even just having a positive-based belief system. For me, it was learning to follow a path that included diving more

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Bob Speck
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Awakening A Deeper Sense of Home

Yoga is a practice to re-awaken the natural loving-kindness that rests deep in our souls. We re-vitalize feelings of love for all beings and all of Earth. We direct awareness both inward and outward to feel deeply connected and at One with all of life. We realize the gift of the present moment. We feel humbled by the sacredness of Life, and empowered by our abilities to serve with integrity and dignity. Practice might take the form of the classical

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Meditation

Listen to this Yoga Nidra Meditation

. . . and experience deep rest. Wiped out? Tired? Looking for a reset? In pain? Listen to this guided meditation and experience deep rest. Set an intention stating what you’d like to manifest in your life and realize your heart’s deepest longing. It’s easy. All you have to do is lie down and listen.

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