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12/10/2019

More Wellbeing, Less BS

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Sarcastic, evidence-based, creative, and weirdly optimistic health news written and/or curated by Tracey Anne Duncan.

11/09/2018

My feed is full of ads from probably very well-meaning folks trying to self me self-improvement. Please be careful with your languaging, y’all. Making people feel like they need to buy a thing in order to be whole or to “live their best lives” is an old tool of the . I know how tempting it is to sell yourself as an expert on being happy/beautiful/healed. I have absolutely done this in the past. Every out there has been taught to find the pain points and then to offer the elixir in the form of planners, courses, workout plans, and crystals. If you have an elixir, please share it. You deserve to get paid to share your wisdom. Just don’t make us feel like there’s something wrong with us if we don’t want what you’ve got to offer. It’s not that “we’re not ready to invest in our best selves,” it’s that we want to believe that you believe in our inherent value. Thank you

11/08/2018

wherever you go, whoever you’re with, you’ve got your senses. sometimes it may feel like they’re all you have. sometimes they might be. you can use them to help you deal. 🖤 tonight we will focus on sight 🖤

11/02/2018

BECOMING as a Practice

Yoga and Writing -

That may seem obvious, but what I've found is that I often use writing as a way of becoming who I am, rather than simply showing who I am. 

10/17/2018

Writing as Becoming

You are usually the hero of your own stories, whether they’re on paper or in your head. In truth, you play a lot of roles in your life and you can play a lot more characters in your writing. As Walt Whitman said, you contain multitudes.

We often think of writing as a tool that we use to express the world and our experiences, but really it is a tool that we use to create the world and our experiences. We shape ourselves and our world through our writing. This is how we make meaning.

Allowing yourself, or inviting yourself, to play out new and different identities can be both a creative work of personal healing and a way of expressing your complexity. You can create and understand new meanings with this work.

This class uses the practice of writing as a way not just to express who we are, but in order to newly or once again embody the many facets of who we are, who we have been, who we want to be, and who we are creating ourselves into...

I’m going to be teaching this series at starting on November 5th. Hit up , visit them on FB, or go to their website (noladragonfly.com) to find out more or to sign up locally. DM me to talk about doing it distance.

10/02/2018

Making Friends with Craving - https://mailchi.mp/moreyogalessbu****it/making-friends-with-craving

09/17/2018

Where I've Been. - https://mailchi.mp/moreyogalessbu****it/where-ive-been-where-im-going-where-youre-going

08/24/2018

Four more classes with me this week! 🖤 The dharma: the body knows what the mind ignores or tries to justify. Strengthening our Embodied, intuitive intelligence brings us into holistic alignment. 🖤 ****it

08/24/2018

We often think of meditation as an escape from our lives, but in fact, mediation is a way to find peace within our lives, distractions and all.
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08/23/2018

A few easy to help ease the pain of life as a human. ****it

08/22/2018

Super chilled out and . Nighty-night ❤️

08/20/2018

04/10/2018

Storytelling and Storyhealing: A Survey

Hey y'all, I am fine tuning the courses I teach for yoga teachers, healers, and coaches who want to use their stories to inspire their clients. If that describes you, this survey is meant to help you think about your work and will help me gather information. No purchase necessary. No commitment required. Just some questions for people who dig doing the work ❤ https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScIZyXPfX_tD09WqN347g-0PNJDNjrZlvLZjfpqntjX5xqAkg/viewform?usp=sf_link

I help people craft and share their personal stories to show others how to lead revolutionary lives. How do you use your personal experiences to inspire and teach your students and clients? What kind of work do you need and want to do to tell and use your stories more effectively? This survey is mea...

03/28/2018

Help! (If you wanna, of course...) I am taking a class and I have been asked to ask ppl what they think makes me unique and what makes me good at the work that I do. I am not trying to fish for compliments, although I do love them (duh), I just really need to know what y'all think makes me good at teaching, writing, coaching, etc. I can THINK that I know what you like about me, but you know what they say about assumptions. Thanks in advance.

02/06/2018

What Happens When All The Parades Are Over?

What Happens When All The Parades Are Over? -

This carnival season has been a complicated one for me and a lot of people I love. It’s kicked up a lot of dirt along with the glitter. Wading through that dirty glitter has been empowering and exhausting in equal measure. I love Mardi Gras. And when I’m done loving it, I’m going to love Lent ...

02/06/2018

What Happens When All The Parades Are Over?

What Happens When All The Parades Are Over? -

Hey y'all, This carnival season has been a complicated one for me and a lot of people I love. It’s kicked up a lot of dirt along with the glitter. Wading through that dirty glitter has been empowering and exhausting in equal measure. I love Mardi Gras. And when I’m done loving it, I’m going to...

02/06/2018

What Happens When All The Parades Are Over?

What Happens When All The Parades Are Over? -

This carnival season has been a complicated one for me and a lot of people I love. It’s kicked up a lot of dirt along with the glitter. Wading through that dirty glitter has been empowering and exhausting in equal measure. I love Mardi Gras. And when I’m done loving it, I’m going to love Lent ...

01/29/2018

Why I Can't Afford Mardi Gras

Why I Can't Afford Mardi Gras -

Krewe de Vieux is kinda like Mardi Gras kick off for me. It's one of my favorite parades. It's dirty and political and irreverent af. You can usually find me me in front of Mimi's glittered and screaming and tripped out on mushrooms. But not this year. This year, instead of going to KDV and reveling...

01/22/2018

Affirmations are bu****it.

Affirmations are Bu****it. -

This piece I wrote for VICE about how affirmations are bu****it landed today and damn, are some people pi**ed. Oops. Here's the thing: while I do write in a sometimes purposefully inflammatory style, it's not because I'm trying to insult anyone. It's because I care so desperately about this work tha...

01/15/2018

Hard Conversations

Hard Conversations -

I've had a lot of hard conversations, lately. There are the obviously hard ones about heartbreak and divorce and the death of beloved pets (RIP Bernie Sanders,The Purrsident). And then there are the other hard conversations, the ones that wouldn't be hard, actually, if you weren't so fu***ng committ...

01/08/2018

You don't need more resolutions. You need solutions.

You don't need more resolutions. You need solutions.

New Year, New You! Just fu***ng kidding, y'all. Every social landscape is hellishly littered with self-improvement memes and programs and promises right now. And it is so boring.

01/03/2018

More Yoga, Less Bu****it

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10/26/2017

Dark Matter: A Love Story

Dark Matter: A Love Story

F**k. Life can be so hard sometimes. We just amble around in these bodies, thinking thoughts, trying to be nice and do good things and have jobs and walk our dogs and sometimes it feels like there is a never-ending supply of existential dilemmas. That's because there is. A never-ending supply of exi...

10/26/2017

Dark Matter: A Love Story

The Trauma of Everyday Life: A Love Story

F**k. Life can be so hard sometimes. We just amble around in these bodies, thinking thoughts, trying to be nice and do good things and have jobs and walk our dogs and sometimes it feels like there is a never-ending supply of existential dilemmas. That's because there is. A never-ending supply of exi...

10/02/2017

Yoga Ninja Warrior Training - More Yoga, Less Bu****it

Y'all! Six weeks of badassery is coming to yoooooooou. Sign up now. Space is limited ❤ http://www.moreyogalessbu****it.com/2017/09/yoga-ninja-warrior-training/

  What is strength? Is it impenetrability? Is it a hard shell that that protects you from the world? Or is it a soft shell, like a cocoon, that protects you as you grow but[...]

08/28/2017

Get Bent Rulz!!!

Get Bent Rulz!!!

Sometimes when you're first trying to hang out with someone, it can be awkward af. Kinda like you're trying to prop up their leg while you balance on one leg or something (see above). But it wasn't like that with y'all. I mean, sure, I was nervous last night. It's always kind of weird when you're ha...

08/23/2017

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08/17/2017

THE MANIFESTO - Get Bent

Get Bent Manifesto

Yoga, Geo-Politics, and Changes at Get Bent from Tracey Y’all. This year was an ass kicker. Geopolitics, local politics, and the giant fu***ng clash and crash of the two made me rethink everything. Like every.fu***ng.thing.[...]

06/14/2017

Let's talk about the D word, so often avoided or maligned in the yogaverse. DESIRE. Because it's my big gay anniversary and the solstice and kitten season and the air is hot and shorts are short. Extra special restorative sesh this Sunday only at 7:30 pm. ❤️💛💚💙💜🖤🦄🌈🍇🔮

05/31/2017

Morning Ritual Design

Morning Ritual Design and other sundry summer musings....

Basically every other person I come into contact with eventually says to me, "I wish I was the kind of person who wakes up and meditates and starts the day right, but..." What follows is an endless list of explanations: -I'm a night owl. -I hate meditating. -I'm usually still too drunk to do anythin...

04/17/2017

What's YOUR story? Trade ya for a free course!

What's YOUR story? Trade ya for a free course!

The good news is that I am back in town and teaching all of my regular classes this week! The better news is that I am starting to teach online. Not yoga classes, other kinds of classes. The first class I am offering online is called Strategic Storytelling and it's FREE until I figure out how much t...