On The Edge Yoga with Donna Rucinski Harrington

04/13/2025

A song, perhaps about mindful practice or about a relationship, which is funny or heartbreaking, or all these things at once. A smile and a cry and a reminder to notice ♥️

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Molly Drake · The Tide's Magnificence: Songs and Poems of Molly Drake · Song · 2018

02/27/2024

I’m grateful for the leadership of an app that I love as both a teacher and practioner. I rarely get donations, but this month I received an unprecedented $3.00, just in time for Apple to take 30%. 🙄
Insight Timer generosly passes 100% of donations on to teachers, an admirable corporate decision. Not sure Apple would understand.
Enjoy your $.90, Apple.

If you don’t already enjoy Insight Timer, and want to support an ethical company, give it a try. The free version is terrific.

Highly recommend Yoga Nidra for Sleep by Jennifer Piercy ♥️

05/08/2023

Teaching a restorative class tomorrow night at the Roudenbush in Westford, if you’re looking for a nice treat for yourself, come try this yin-like, super sweet class where the only goal is to relax completely ♥️

INSTUCTOR: Donna Harrington Date: Tuesday May 9th Time: 7:00 - 8:30pm If yoga and napping got married and had a baby, it would be restorative yoga. This 90minute Restorative Yoga class will give the participant a deep relaxing rest. It will also serve as an introduction to mindfulness meditation, a....

09/09/2022

Try out the spa-like experience of restorative yoga at the Roudenbush community center in Westford on Tuesday night! ♥️

Instructor: Donna Rucinski Harrington Date: Tuesday September 13th 7:00 - 8:30pm If yoga and napping got married and had a baby, it would be restorative yoga. This 90 minute Restorative Yoga class will give the participant a deep relaxing rest. It will also serve as an introduction to mindfulness me...

01/16/2022

A thing I’m excited about doing ♥️

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06/02/2021

I don’t know anything about this company except it looks amazing! Yoga works best when tailored for the individual. To stay safe, always be mindful of what works in any given moment for YOUR body. It is a moving meditation, after all. I still can’t do crow for more than a second, this ad made me laugh 🙄😆♥️

Yoga with brains, love and body-smart movement. Online yoga classes that you can trust are good for your body and online continuing education for yoga teachers. Integrating movement science with yoga for a sustainable yoga practice.

12/31/2020

Go easy on the resolutions this time around 😊♥️

Not to be bossy, but only make one resolution this year:

10/15/2020

Michelle Joyce is a posture guru! This video gives some exercises, simple but effective, that will get rid of the old lady fat lump just below the neck. But here's the surprising thing: it's not just old ladies anymore. Kids who are gaming and spending lots of time curled over computer keyboards and phones are getting the same dorsocervical fat pad. They need to develop an awareness of good posture and strengthen the upper back with yoga and exercises like these. In her Ted talk, Michelle tells the story of how parents objected to the establishment of compulsory education in the 1800s, felt that children sitting at desks all day wouldn't be healthy. The schools responded with posture practice and exercises that were part of school curriculums until the 1960s. We need this attention to our student's health more than ever.

This video is an excerpt of The 30 Day Posture Makeover, a 3 hour video series, which has over 100 stretches, exercises and ergonomic tips. Available as a DV...

10/12/2020

As I develop a class in yoga and mindfulness that I'm delivering to my students online, I'm going to share resources that I'm using to support my curriculum. In this first, Amy Cuddy describes how good posture (something yoga is known for as you bring mindful awareness to the foundation of poses) is not only good for you physiologically, but psychologically. She also writes about how a confident power pose activates an Approach Behavior system rather than the Avoid Behavior system. Approach is when we feel happy, Avoid is when we feel fear. So, shoulders down, back, and away from ears, stand up tall, act with love, not fear, and feel better!

Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy argues that "power posing" -- standing in...

09/12/2020

Take good care of yourself
Breathe deep
Eat well
Move often
Sleep tight ♥️

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09/11/2020

No words beyond Mary Oliver's beautiful ones here

07/14/2020

“Procrastination is an emotion regulation problem, not a time management problem,” said Dr. Tim Pychyl, professor of psychology and member of the Procrastination Research Group at Carleton University in Ottawa."

Yes! This! And how do we deal with negative emotions? This is what I tell my students: shame is a crippling emotions. So:
"One option is to forgive yourself in the moments you procrastinate."
Yup. Try this trick: spend 20 minutes working, 5 minutes free rest. That free time will help stop the buildup of shame if you are having work completion problems.
Self-compassion, self-acceptance, be forgiving with everyone, but start with your own lovely self.

If procrastination isn’t about laziness, then what is it about?