We Hallucinate Our Own Reality
Jim Morrison sang: People are Strange, When You're a Stranger. What the Buddha discovered under that Banyan tree, back when he woke up...
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Victoria Larsson
- Jul 13, 2021
- 7 min
The Allure of Teaching Yoga
I've had the honour and privilege to work with many new teachers via the mentorship program I occasionally offer. When I ask mentees why...
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Victoria Larsson
- Jun 1, 2021
- 4 min
WHY PRACTICE MEDITATION?
You can only connect the dots when you look back. At the age of 19 I had an acid trip that forever changed the trajectory of my life....
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Victoria Larsson
- May 10, 2021
- 2 min
The Core of Yoga
I hated physical education in school. I sucked at every single ball sport, I sucked at track and field. I could not run fast. I was very...
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Victoria Larsson
- Apr 21, 2021
- 3 min
Breaking free from Plastic (or trying to)
This morning I woke up to the news of the guilty verdict of Derek Chauvin -- a piece of news I had eagerly awaited. That a person who...
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Victoria Larsson
- Mar 22, 2021
- 4 min
What Is My Real Self?
The Buddha said: I teach one thing, and one thing only: Suffering (dukkha) and the end of suffering. According to the Buddha desire and...
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Victoria Larsson
- Feb 24, 2021
- 3 min
Let's Be Happy! Let's Get Our Heads Out Of Our Assholes
A little while ago I read about a study, where people from a few different countries were asked to make themselves happier. The people...
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Victoria Larsson
- Feb 9, 2021
- 3 min
Flowing Through Life's Ups & Downs with Grace
The Brahmaviharas, or the Four Immeasurables, are mind states, or feelings that we cultivate when we practice meditation. Here I will...
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Victoria Larsson
- Jan 25, 2021
- 3 min
Bleakness TBC
Like most people, I get The Pandemic Blues from time to time. I had it really bad around the holidays. I was resisting the way things...
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Victoria Larsson
- Dec 23, 2020
- 3 min
Fuck Christmas!
I realized at the age of thirteen that I hated Christmas. Because it was bringing out the worst in me. Christmas for me was only about...
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Victoria Larsson
- Dec 8, 2020
- 3 min
WHAT DO YOU WANT?
According to the Buddha, the first noble truth is Dukkha or suffering, un-satisfactoriness. Often mis-construed as Life is Suffering, but...
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Victoria Larsson
- Nov 20, 2020
- 4 min
Autobiography of a Yogi II
This won't be a linear story. Instead it will skip back and forth along the timeline, like an arthouse movie. Fast forward and go...
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Victoria Larsson
- Nov 11, 2020
- 4 min
Autobiography of a Yogi
Will anyone care to read my autobiography? The story of somebody who is nobody in more ways than I care to list right now. I'll try not...
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Victoria Larsson
- Oct 8, 2020
- 3 min
SHOULD SHOULD SHOULD
For as long as I can remember, I have been writing 'to-do'-lists. And a good day, in my mind, meant a 'productive' day. A day when 'I got...
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Victoria Larsson
- Sep 2, 2020
- 2 min
It hurts
I wasn't ready to admit that. Because I have a life long history of turning hurt to anger. It's always been easier for me somehow, to...
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Victoria Larsson
- Aug 6, 2020
- 2 min
Ever Wondered Where It All Began?
Was it when you where little and the sea scared you with its vastness? Or the thought of black holes at the outskirts of the universe...
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Victoria Larsson
- Jul 27, 2020
- 3 min
Yoga Soft Porn
If I was a space alien, with the same sensibilities as the human Victoria, and I was descending onto Planet Earth and used Instagram to...
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Victoria Larsson
- Jun 22, 2020
- 4 min
Should We or Do We All Suffer Equally?
As an already furious teenager who had just discovered feminism, and hence seeing sexism everywhere (quite likely also where there was...
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Victoria Larsson
- May 14, 2020
- 3 min
No Mud, No Lotus
When does someone's spiritual journey begin? At birth? At the time of the first big loss, however that manifests itself? As heartbreak,...
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Victoria Larsson
- May 5, 2020
- 4 min
What Are You Willing to Offer?
It was only last week I think, that it dawned on me, that things will never go back to how they were before. That this isn't some little...
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