http://www.mindbodygreen.com/wc/jennifer-pastiloff Jennifer Pastiloff's Posts on MindBodyGreen http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-9539/you-dont-have-to-escape-to-feel-alive.html I wonder how many things we miss because we feel we have seen it before or simply because we are looking at the wrong things to wake us up? Confession: I am having the blahs. I just returned... Wed, 15 May 2013 11:00:00 GMT http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-9539/you-dont-have-to-escape-to-feel-alive.html Jennifer Pastiloff 2013-05-15T11:00:00Z http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-9445/dont-let-the-outside-world-shut-you-down.html My nephew Blaise has a rare genetic disorder called Prader-Willi Syndrome. He loves school and cries the snot-running-down-the-face-kind-of-cry if he has to miss it for any reason. I hated school.... Wed, 08 May 2013 11:29:00 GMT http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-9445/dont-let-the-outside-world-shut-you-down.html Jennifer Pastiloff 2013-05-08T11:29:00Z http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-9334/how-to-say-thank-you-even-when-life-seems-to-say-no.html As you may have seen on my Facebook or video blogs, I went to see Rose Alma in the hospital last Saturday while I was in Atlanta to host a workshop at Hazard County Yoga. Rosie recently... Fri, 03 May 2013 11:03:00 GMT http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-9334/how-to-say-thank-you-even-when-life-seems-to-say-no.html Jennifer Pastiloff 2013-05-03T11:03:00Z http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-9087/are-you-your-most-authentic-brightest-self.html Why are you not yelling from mountaintops who you are? When you send your light out into the world, you can feel yourself being refueled with all that golden light. Or purple. Or whatever color... Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:00:00 GMT http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-9087/are-you-your-most-authentic-brightest-self.html Jennifer Pastiloff 2013-04-25T10:00:00Z http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-8814/can-you-manifest-the-bad-without-meaning-to.html Here's an letter I just received from someone after my Seattle Manifestation Yoga® workshop. Hi Jennifer, After the workshop it was time to go back to the life I live, and all the chaos that comes... Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:04:00 GMT http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-8814/can-you-manifest-the-bad-without-meaning-to.html Jennifer Pastiloff 2013-04-18T11:04:00Z http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-8745/why-its-never-too-late-to-start-over.html When I was eight years old, my father quietly slipped away one night in July. He had ducked out of his life by way of his heart, and it's no small irony that the heart is the great focal point of my... Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:00:00 GMT http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-8745/why-its-never-too-late-to-start-over.html Jennifer Pastiloff 2013-04-15T17:00:00Z http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-8676/dealing-with-loneliness.html In my yoga practice, I like the idea of being a detective when it comes to my backbend, to the way my foot feels on the mat. I like the way this verb feels in me, the way it rolls around and ends up... Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:00:00 GMT http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-8676/dealing-with-loneliness.html Jennifer Pastiloff 2013-04-10T16:00:00Z http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-8373/the-pain-doesnt-stop-but-you-can-make-it-a-gift.html I’ve been thinking lately about things in my life that made me throw my fists into the air and yell: It’s just not fair! Why? Why me? Why my family?  I've started to find the gifts in... Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:23:00 GMT http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-8373/the-pain-doesnt-stop-but-you-can-make-it-a-gift.html Jennifer Pastiloff 2013-04-03T15:23:00Z http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-8280/there-is-nothing-missing-the-epiphany-that-helps-me-cope-with-depression.html I feel like I'm about to write copy for an antidepressant commercial. Are you depressed? Trouble sleeping? Find you can’t focus? Find you’re feeling down when you have no real reason to,... Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:05:00 GMT http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-8280/there-is-nothing-missing-the-epiphany-that-helps-me-cope-with-depression.html Jennifer Pastiloff 2013-03-27T15:05:00Z http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-8169/let-go-of-guilt.html I'd arrived at the Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris from Pisa to discover that of the two bottles of wine I had packed had cracked and broken in my (over)packed luggage. It was July and I... Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:43:00 GMT http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-8169/let-go-of-guilt.html Jennifer Pastiloff 2013-03-20T14:43:00Z http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-8081/what-to-do-when-youre-stuck.html Last week I received a letter from one of my readers.  Dear Jen, I am coming to you for some major support right now. I know it may seem really unimportant and lame, but it's weighing on me... Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:09:00 GMT http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-8081/what-to-do-when-youre-stuck.html Jennifer Pastiloff 2013-03-13T15:09:00Z http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-7965/how-often-do-we-say-yes-because-we-think-we-dont-deserve-to-say-no.html Yesterday, a girl came up to me before my class at Equinox and told me that my sister Rachel’s blog is her saving grace; that she feels she's on the same journey as my sister. That she is, in fact, a... Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:05:00 GMT http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-7965/how-often-do-we-say-yes-because-we-think-we-dont-deserve-to-say-no.html Jennifer Pastiloff 2013-03-06T17:05:00Z http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-7859/ever-feel-like-running-away-from-your-life.html Do you ever feel like running away from it all? As in: not being present? As in: escaping your life? As in: feeling like if you moved away life would be somehow better?  For a long time, it was... Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:01:00 GMT http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-7859/ever-feel-like-running-away-from-your-life.html Jennifer Pastiloff 2013-02-27T17:01:00Z http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-7703/i-still-dont-want-to-get-on-the-scale.html I had a checkup today at the doctor.I was dreading it for days. This morning, when I woke up at 10 am (I know, I know! Jet lag, yikes!) I had an especially delicious knot in my stomach. The scale.... Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:43:00 GMT http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-7703/i-still-dont-want-to-get-on-the-scale.html Jennifer Pastiloff 2013-02-20T16:43:00Z http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-7702/own-it-own-your-joy.html So I was teaching my yoga class yesterday, which incidentally is less of a class these days and more of a joy ride, a life experience, a laugh and sing and dance fest, but I digress, I was teaching... Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:41:00 GMT http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-7702/own-it-own-your-joy.html Jennifer Pastiloff 2013-02-13T16:41:00Z