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Annie Schliffer

About the Author

Annie Schliffer has been a full-time studio potter for forty-four years, working at The Rochester Folk Guild, an intentional community dedicated to the study of crafts, organic gardening, and the study and practice of Gurdjieff ideas. (www.rfag.org). A yoga student and teacher, she integrates the craft of pottery with the practice of yoga.

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How to Open Ourselves Out: A Conversation with Abhijata Iyengar

How to Open Ourselves Out: A Conversation with Abhijata Iyengar

July 28, 2018By Annie Schliffer

Exploring yoga with the guru’s granddaughter

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The Yoga Master at Ninety, an Interview with B.K.S. Iyengar

The Yoga Master at Ninety, an Interview with B.K.S. Iyengar

June 21, 2016By Annie Schliffer

Born in India in 1918, B.K.S. Iyengar has been teaching yoga since the age of seventeen. An innovative and exacting teacher for more than sixty years, he has guided the establishment of many centers of Iyengar Yoga worldwide. His message is “Yoga is for everyone.”

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Seek & You Shall Find

the Fall 2018 issue

The theme of this issue of Parabola is “The Journey Home,” and as we see from the rich selection of essays, poetry, and art in its pages, “Journey” and “Home” are of equal import. Our life is a journey and there are homes to reach, during this life and also at its end and perhaps beyond. Read more>

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Winter 2018-2019
Hope
Editorial Submission Deadline: September 1st, 2018

Spring 2019
Change and the Changeless
Editorial Submission Deadline: December 1st, 2018

Summer 2019
The Wild
Editorial Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2019

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Abundance
Editorial Submission Deadline: June 1st, 2019

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