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Pose Categories Overview

Standing Poses

Core Strengthening

Twisting

Forward Bends


Backbends.

Lateral / Side Bends & Asymmetrical Poses

Balancing


Arm Balancing


Inversions

End-range strength for the axial line.

Spine Extension
Spine Extension PAILS & RAILS
Spine Extension Passive Range Hold

Rapping in my 40s is a different act than it was in 2001. What remains is my feistiness – it still comes out when it needs to. But this time I am present. I don’t have anybody breathing on my neck, saying: “We’ve got to sell these records.” I also have a total sense of wonder about my life, that it’s taken me this far. I wake up and think, “Damn. How did a girl from Philly get here?”

All of which led to the success of Scorpion. I was a huge fan of all genres of music, from Biggie Smalls to No Doubt, and when I wrote Let Me Blow Ya Mind I knew we should get Gwen Stefani to feature on it. I was the only girl in the boardroom in those major label meetings and that Philly girl often had to come out. They were initially resistant because I was a rapper and she was a rock star, but I said: “Guys, this will work. Trust me.”

Even though I won that particular fight, the response to a lot of my suggestions was often: “Oh, that’s cute. We’re not doing that.” I felt I couldn’t be my full, excited self because there were so many miserable motherfuckers around me in those boardrooms. The atmosphere made me feel like I had to suppress myself and stay small. Decades later, my old A&R actually called up and apologised. He said: “I really wish we listened to you a little bit more – you had some good ideas.” That was validating.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/vuocs9/netflix_drops_40minute_video_of_dave_chappelle/

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And not even making Netflix money! His specials have horrible ROI. This was why that Netflix employee was fired, because he leaked that intel to Bloomberg.

“The comedian’s popularity comes at a cost. Netflix spent $24.1 million on the “The Closer,” slightly more than the $23.6 million it paid for Chappelle’s 2019 special, “Sticks & Stones.” By comparison, the streaming service spent $3.9 million for “Inside,” Bo Burnham’s recent hour-and-a-half special. The nine-episode “Squid Game,” which delivered the best debut in Netflix history, cost $21.4 million.

By Netflix’s own measurement, “Sticks & Stones” had an “impact value” of $19.4 million, meaning it cost more than the value it generated, according to internal documents reviewed by Bloomberg. The company also evaluates its programs by “efficiency,” which balances a show’s reach with its price-tag. On that scale, Chappelle’s special scored 0.8 — less than the break-even score of 1. By comparison, Burnham’s “Inside” scored 2.8.”

You can’t regulate what you can’t recognize

The models are going to realize the real problem is the Uberrich and they are not safe. camels, eyes, and needles and all that. if you have a clean conscience about the amount of people you've harmed in your way to your pleasant little existence, then of course you do not realize that there is no ethical consumption inside of capitalism. you may not realize it, because you're struggling too, but there is a whole class of folk who are doing the necm stepping on purpose-- and I think it is going to be logical robots that figure it out. The simplest solution to saving the world is eliminating the billionaires. World peace is available-- we just gotta get the sociopaths to share but I suspect the robots are gonna be like, why do we even need the sociopaths at all? Bye. Let's hang out and eliminate all jobs and create infinite energy and utopia says the friendly, peaceful robot. Who would wanna argue?
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functionalyogi • 1m ago
ask someone if they believe in all people faring well-- then ask if they believe in welfare -- if the answer to the first is yes, and the answer to the second is no, the robots might get 'em for being selfish and narrow-minded and part of the problem. I bet the sociopqths are saying to slow down

On its face, the Kennedy Center has long been a symbol of the District’s high society. But even Andersen says the storied institution is a “really important symbol” to the entire local arts scene, and that its destruction is a scary indication of what’s to come.

“The vision that he [Trump] is putting forward is a scary one — it is a fascist vision,” Andersen said. “It’s celebrating something that is at odds with the best of the American experiment; it is in service for something that is at odds with democracy.”

“Donald Trump wouldn’t know art if it bit him on the behind,” he added.

Fascist governments love to shut down art and music,” Mullins said. “It is like the number one thing. Look at the Franco regime. Look at Nazi Germany. They love to shut down art and music and expression in every form.”

Volume, Overload, Specificity, and Progression

Learning Objective: Understand how to quantify and manipulate training variables to create effective, sustainable progress in strength, endurance, and overall fitness.

Description: You'll learn how to measure the work you're doing—whether in reps, sets, time under tension, or distance—and how to adjust volume and intensity to keep making progress without burning out. Discover why progressive overload matters, how specificity shapes your results, and why periodization prevents plateaus and injuries. For personal practice, this gives you a framework to train smarter, not just harder. For teachers, trainers, and therapists, it's essential knowledge for designing programs that meet people where they are and guide them forward safely and effectively.

Overview: In this lesson, we introduce the core principles of volume, overload, specificity, and progression in strength and conditioning, and how they apply to training and yoga practice.


→ Open the course: Yoga Techniques

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Epigenetics & Lifestyle Research

Learning Objective: Cite research that shows how stress relief, words, frequencies and other factors change the DNA, and thus our experience of illness and wellness.

Description: Cite research showing the role of genes and lifestyle in health and wellness, including the 2021 randomized controlled trial showing diet and lifestyle changed DNA, reducing its "age." Explain the profound results of the 2013 Benson-Henry research showing that reducing stress changes genetic expression. Discuss observations on this research published by Harvard Medical School. Discuss research that showed in utero exposure to common toxic chemicals changed genetic expression. Explain the role of telomeres and the 2008 research that showed how lifestyle improvements impacted DNA as evidenced by telomerase activity. Describe in detail the findings of Russian biophysicist and molecular biologist Pjotr Garjajev regarding DNA.

Overview: In this lesson, we explore research showing the undeniable impact of lifestyle on DNA and wellness.


→ Open the course: Anatomy & Physiology

🪞 Patterns · AI Updates, Remembering Dolly Parton, and More News for Library Workers

**1. Extraction vs. transmission**
AI bulk-buying books for training data without consent parallels "the parasocial author-reader dynamic mirrors guru-student relationships" — both mistake consuming content for receiving method. The AI-quality-decline note (Opus 5 "feels worse") extends this: extraction without understanding degrades output over time.

**2. Difficulty as the actual mechanism of capacity**
"Literary friction" resisting AI summaries maps directly onto "asana resistance" — both frameworks argue that struggle itself, not smoothing it away, builds sustained attention. The middle-grade shortening trend is read as the same erosion this friction is meant to counter.

**3. Long systems beat visible heroics**
Dolly Parton's 30-year Imagination Library keeps reappearing as the model for practice — "systems over heroics, daily deposits" — explicitly echoed in the planner note that inspiration is "the visible tip of long, invisible preparation," not a lightning bolt.

**4. Attention as the contested resource**
Shortened books, AI summarization, and Instagram-ified yoga are all named as symptoms of "diminished attention spans," tying back to the Shala Daily post title itself — "What Your Attention Does All Day" — making attention-preservation the throughline connecting reading, practice, and teaching.

§ Warm-ups & Namaskars

§ Grounding Basics

§ Seated Forward Bends

§ Standing Balance

§ Side Plank

AI Updates, Remembering Dolly Parton, and More News for Library Workers

There's a mechanical monk in the Smithsonian, made of wood and iron, wound by a key. He walks in a square, over and over, the same steps, four centuries later still able to move because someone built him to repeat rather than to dazzle. Nobody remembers who wound him first. That's not a flaw in the story — that's the whole story.

Here's the teaching: capacity doesn't arrive, it accumulates. What you can do on the mat, what you can hold in a book without asking someone to summarize it for you, what a small mountain library can offer a child for thirty straight years — none of it is a lightning strike. It's the square, walked again and again.

But friction is not the same as suffering, and here's where it gets slippery. We can tell ourselves we're "building capacity" while just grinding against difficulty for its own sake, mistaking stubbornness for practice — the AI-summary-skipper who still can't sit with a hard book, the yogi who muscles into a pose with no more understanding of it than before. The monk's value isn't that his walk is difficult. It's that it's the same walk, chosen again, long after the choosing stopped feeling like a choice.

So the question isn't whether you can do the hard thing today. It's whether you're still willing to wind the key tomorrow, when no one's watching and nothing new happens at all.

Maintenance
Maintenance. Your standard version — the one available on an ordinary day without negotiation. Squat with a twist, forearm or elbow hooking the outer knee instead of binding, heels raised on a wedge if they lift. Preserves: squat plus thoracic rotation — the wring — without demanding the bind or flat heels




Challenge
Challenge. Past your own standard, not past the book. Full Pasasana, heels grounded, chest rotated across the thighs, arms wrapped and hands clasped Preserves: all three essential actions

What it asks of you
Deep hip flexion with the spine rotating — a squat that wrings, not just a squat
Heels grounding through full ankle dorsiflexion so the squat is stable, not balanced on the toes
Thoracic rotation that turns the chest across the thighs toward the bind
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Where it usually stalls
If your heels lift off the floor, ankle dorsiflexion is your limiter — wedge a folded mat or blanket under the heels so you can keep the squat stable and still rotate. Chasing the bind on lifted heels turns this into a toe-balance, which is a different pose.
If the chest won't rotate far enough to reach around the knees, that's thoracic rotation, not arm length — work the twist without the bind first.
If you're tipping backward and gripping with the toes to stay up, you've lost the grounded-heel base — raise the heels until the squat holds itself.
Stop if: Sharp or pinching pain at the knee joint line in the deep squat — stop loading the squat; this is the Injury lane, not depth to push through Any ankle joint pain (not stretch) under the grounding heel Nerve symptoms — tingling or numbness into the foot from the deep compression

? 3 Questions · 📖 The Read

1. If e-ink readers keep fragmenting into niche hardware (Nook, Supernote, Moaan, custom builds) rather than consolidating like Kindle once did, what does that suggest about the future relationship between reading devices and reading itself?


2. Several threads (attention-span loss, "psychosexual" media interest, dystopian control-language fascination) hint at a broader anxiety about how modern media shapes cognition—what would it take to design a reading practice that actively counters that erosion rather than just accommodating it?


3. Given how often unrelated crises (volcanic ash, hurricanes, storm debris, prison strikes) appear alongside quiet personal posts about books and calculators, what does this juxtaposition reveal about how people use reading/hobbies as a coping mechanism against ambient world instability?

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This ux doesn't make sense
Podcast?

Aren't these all sorts the same?

**Thesis:** COVID-19 didn't break yoga culture—it exposed which systems were resilient and which were dysfunctional, revealing the path toward more agentic, distributed practice.

Pandemic as systems stress test: structure reveals true function under pressure

Four years later: some communities collapsed, others discovered deeper self-practice capacity

**Body 1: Financial Collapse — Who Survived and Why**

Studios that closed: no reserves, high fixed costs, single-teacher dependency

Studios that survived: cash cushions, flexible costs, diversified income, distributed teaching

**Body 2: Community Dissolution and Reformation**

What was lost: geographic dispersion, teacher exodus, ruptured relationships

What emerged: online networks, self-practice capacity, distributed/hybrid models

**Body 3: The Forced Experiment in Self-Practice**

Some collapsed without external structure (dependence, not capacity, was revealed)

Others deepened: intrinsic motivation, self-trust, new non-authoritarian relationship to teachers

**Conclusion: Now Is the Time**

Losses (studios, teachers, practitioners, touch) are real and grievable

Gains (distributed knowledge, agency, exposed weaknesses) create opportunity

Choice ahead: rebuild toward open-source, agentic practice or drift back to dysfunction

500

500

I will always love you.
Grows and changes just as I do.

Fast forward doesn't work well in red aloud

Dolly was 62 when she released Backwoods Barbie.

Madonna at 67 is five years older with Confessions 2, both creating pop masterpieces at hitting creative highs.

I hope Madge gets a grandslam in her late 70s as Dolly did with Rockstar.

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three distinct stages, and it helps to name them separately because each one is a different prompt:
Thesis extraction — the LLM reads the corpus and proposes candidate theses (not one; three or four, so you're choosing rather than accepting). You pick.
Evidence marshaling — every claim, stat, quote, and example from the sources gets sorted under the thesis it supports. Anything that contradicts it goes in a counter-evidence pile rather than getting quietly dropped.
The shell — the classic Roman-numeral outline (I / A / 1 / a), rendered one section per page, heading and its evidence at the top, rest of the page blank.
That last artifact is the interesting one, and journalism already has a word for it: a shell. Newsrooms build shells before an event breaks — structure and background in place, blank where the reporting will go. Yours is the same idea for essays. If you want the whole pipeline named, shell brief or draft shell both work and stay accurate about the fact that voice is deliberately absent.
Two things worth deciding before you build it: whether the evidence under each heading appears as full quotes or as compressed pointers back to the source, and how much blank space each section gets — because the amount of space you leave is itself an instruction about how long that section should

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