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The 'D' dilemma
Jun 22
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Rachel Zinman Yoga
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September 2022
Motivation
It takes motivation to step on my mat every morning and do my practice. Often, it’s thinking about how I’ll feel afterwards that entices me. Then on the…
Sep 10, 2022
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Rachel Zinman Yoga
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August 2022
Home on the range
I was diagnosed three days before I had to leave for India to teach a yoga teacher training. My endo told me to get a glucometer and test my levels and…
Aug 21, 2022
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Rachel Zinman Yoga
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Diabetes is really really really hard
Yesterday I wrote this poem about diabetes. I find writing to be many things, its a way for me to express how I see the world without having to verbally…
Aug 13, 2022
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Rachel Zinman Yoga
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Zooming in and Zooming out
The last few months have been trying. Lots of juggling, no new experiments, just keeping my head above water. That’s because I have a life and it takes…
Aug 9, 2022
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Rachel Zinman Yoga
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June 2022
Flavours of Ignorance
There is only one seamless reality. That awareness flowing in and through every animate and inanimate object. Self is not available through any of the…
Jun 25, 2022
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Rachel Zinman Yoga
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May 2022
The power of effort
Every morning I tell myself, it’s a new beginning when it comes to my life with diabetes. No matter the circumstances at bedtime, waking up is always a…
May 14, 2022
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Rachel Zinman Yoga
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March 2022
The balm that frees the world
Everywhere out there I feel trauma. Standing in the chasm is terrifying and it hurts. How can we let these insane things happen? How can we be in the…
Mar 23, 2022
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Rachel Zinman Yoga
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February 2022
A meditation for Peace
Peace, such a simple word with huge ramifications. Asked to describe peace what would you say? Being still? Feeling content? As sense of safety and…
Feb 26, 2022
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Rachel Zinman Yoga
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Dear Diabetes
You came so unexpectedly. You freaked me out, exhausted me and made me confused. You forced me to look for answers, but for a long time I looked in all…
Feb 6, 2022
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Rachel Zinman Yoga
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January 2022
180 Decisions a day
It was in a coffee shop after consuming a giant banana muffin that I made the first big decision of my adult life. Picking up the coin operated payphone…
Jan 30, 2022
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Indoctrination
I want to take a minute to talk about indoctrination. Specifically, indoctrination in the diabetes world. When I was first diagnosed and for the first 6…
Jan 16, 2022
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Rachel Zinman Yoga
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December 2021
Three sentences for the new year
A yoga intention setting gift for you OMG there are just 12 days left until it's officially Christmas! I feel like December and January always sneak up…
Dec 12, 2021
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Rachel Zinman Yoga
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Custom Styles
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Dec 12, 2021
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Rachel Zinman Yoga
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November 2021
Doing it 'scared'
Today marks another World Diabetes Day. A day to share that people living with any kind of diabetes can do whatever they set their minds to. We are not…
Nov 14, 2021
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Rachel Zinman Yoga
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October 2021
Thinking outside the box
My yoga teacher used to say "the mind is a box", a self-perpetuating entity that endlessly recycles itself loop upon loop. In yoga these loops are…
Oct 27, 2021
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Rachel Zinman Yoga
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September 2021
Put yourself in my shoes
When I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes all I knew about the condition was that I would be insulin dependent for the rest of my life. I didn’t think…
Sep 10, 2021
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August 2021
Beam me up Scotty
Something not many people know about me is that I am obsessed with sci-fi and dystopian stories. I was never a big Lord of the Rings fan, instead stick…
Aug 31, 2021
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Diabetes as a transformational experience
I’ve just completed a course on Mental Health Aware Yoga. I took the course because I wanted to learn more about how to meet the needs of students…
Aug 20, 2021
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Rachel Zinman Yoga
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The changing monster
As a child I was terrified of monsters. They lived under the bed, lurked behind corners and haunted the dark spaces at night. As I grew up the monsters…
Aug 5, 2021
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Rachel Zinman Yoga
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May 2021
Feel the fear and do it anyway
I’ve lived with diabetes for 13 years. For the first six years after my initial diagnosis, I still produced my own insulin, I could manage the whole…
May 28, 2021
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Rachel Zinman Yoga
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January 2021
Flying Blind
When I was little I was convinced a monster lived under my bed. Every night just after brushing my teeth and getting into my P.J’s I’d make a bee line…
Jan 3, 2021
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Rachel Zinman Yoga
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Flying Blind
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December 2020
A. accept what is and B. protect this absolute precious life
When I first travelled to Japan to teach I would walk into my yoga classes and see some of the students wearing masks. My translator explained that the…
Dec 16, 2020
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Rachel Zinman Yoga
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