Comments on: Taming the Monkey Mind, or, will standing-bow pose make me a better mommy? http://mannahattamamma.com/2009/02/taming-the-monkey-mind-or-will-standing-bow-pose-make-me-a-better-mommy/ Perpetually Ambivalent New Yorker...Now Living in Abu Dhabi, UAE Wed, 16 May 2012 10:09:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: marneta http://mannahattamamma.com/2009/02/taming-the-monkey-mind-or-will-standing-bow-pose-make-me-a-better-mommy/comment-page-1/#comment-239 marneta Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:00:30 +0000 http://mannahattamamma.com/wp/?p=54#comment-239 Hi - I came across your post when i was looking for things about monkey mind! I love it and you reminded me how brilliant bikram is! Thank you so much for reminding me about how great bikram is - i need a good stretch! Hi – I came across your post when i was looking for things about monkey mind! I love it and you reminded me how brilliant bikram is! Thank you so much for reminding me about how great bikram is – i need a good stretch!

]]> By: Susanbw http://mannahattamamma.com/2009/02/taming-the-monkey-mind-or-will-standing-bow-pose-make-me-a-better-mommy/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Susanbw Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:18:29 +0000 http://mannahattamamma.com/wp/?p=54#comment-24 Peut-etre you inherited this yogic love from your ma, who entertained her small children by assuming the yoga pose of standing on her head. Hard to yell at children in that pose! I certainly experienced no monkey mind the time I breathed so deeply at the end of our yoga session that I felt myself levitating above my prone and sweaty body. Then the monkey mind returned and during this very quiet meditation time, I got an uncontrollable case of the giggles, so funny was it to be floating far above myself -- any everyone else! Peut-etre you inherited this yogic love from your ma, who entertained her small children by assuming the yoga pose of standing on her head. Hard to yell at children in that pose!
I certainly experienced no monkey mind the time I breathed so deeply at the end of our yoga session that I felt myself levitating above my prone and sweaty body. Then the monkey mind returned and during this very quiet meditation time, I got an uncontrollable case of the giggles, so funny was it to be floating far above myself — any everyone else!

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