Hip, Trinkled Chick, June 8, 2008.

Bonjour, this is Kimberly Wilson, and welcome to the 129th edition of the Hip Trinklechick

podcast, a guide to life on and off the yoga mat.

Today's menu features a must-have offering in on-the-mat,

a muse on living with love in off-the-mat, and we've got homework for you too. Today's menu

features a must-have pose in on-the-mat, a muse on living with love and off and off the mat, and own work for you too.

View our show notes at Hiptrankletchick.com slash blog.

On the mat.

Practice a hemsa.

So instead of actually coming up with a pose for you tonight, what I wanted to come up

with a precept of yoga,

which is a hensa, which falls under the first limb of yoga with the yamas and the niyamas,

the first and second limb. We've got the moral codes of yoga, so to speak. And a hymsa is all

about nonviolence. So it's nonviolent thoughts, words, and actions.

And so a reminder in your daily life to practice a hymsa and to be mindful of practicing

a hymsa toward others that you pass on the streets, towards the people that you work

with, the people that you live with, and just being more

mindful overall of this concept of non-violence, non-harming of other beings.

Off the mat, living with love, considering I have seen sex in the city now for the second

time within a week, I wanted to focus on a way in which we can be more loving. And this kind of

ties in also to the practicing Ahimsa. But I just pulled together a few things that I thought were

really appropriate for living with love. And this is living with love not only with others,

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