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On Yoga and Following Jesus

Anita Mathias — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 09:20:07 +0000

I returned home from boarding school in Nainital in the Himalayas, aged ten, to find everything in my father’s life had changed. He, aged 56, had taken up yoga. And so our mornings became dramatic with simhasana, the lion’s roar, which punctuated the hour long yoga session, which was precious to him, and soon became […]

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On “Defining Decisions” Rather Than New Year’s Resolutions

Anita Mathias — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 12:03:08 +0000

Image Credit Mark Batterson, in The Circle-Maker, a fascinating book on a prayer, praises “defining decisions,” that set the course of your life, sort of like choosing whether you drive to Slovenia (which our family did last summer), or to Scotland (which we might do this summer). I made three defining decisions in my twenties. […]

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Depression and exercise

Anita Mathias — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:56:00 +0000

I remember a nice phrase in Andrew Solomon’s book on depression, “The Noon Day Demon,” which I first read in the New Yorker. That “exercise exorcised the depression from his body”. That’s exactly how it is with me. In a typical depressive pattern, I often wake up sluggish and with low mood, and gain in […]

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