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New Photography Shop (almost!) and Meditation Program Reminder

New Photography Shop (almost!) and Meditation Program Reminder

by Martha Brettschneider | May 12, 2017 | Meditation, Mindfulness, Photography

Hi folks! I'm a little  late with this week's post since I've been working day and night to get my new photography e-commerce site up and running. I wanted to wait until everything was...

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Great News! My Next Meditation Kick-Start Challenge Begins May 15th!

Great News! My Next Meditation Kick-Start Challenge Begins May 15th!

by Martha Brettschneider | May 4, 2017 | Meditation, Mindfulness

Hi everyone! I'm super excited to announce that I'll be starting a new round of the 30-Day Mindfulness Meditation Challenge on May 15. I know many of you were toying with the idea when I...

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Nelson Mandela’s Political Dissident Garden

Nelson Mandela’s Political Dissident Garden

by Martha Brettschneider | Apr 29, 2017 | Blooming into Mindfulness, Life Lessons, Mindful Gardening

I wonder if Nelson Mandela might have felt like this allium bud while imprisoned at Robben Island for 18 years. I wonder if, despite his captivity, he always knew that his potential,...

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Some Highlights from South Africa’s Kirstenbosch National Botanic Garden

Some Highlights from South Africa’s Kirstenbosch National Botanic Garden

by Martha Brettschneider | Apr 20, 2017 | Mindful Gardening, Photography

Hi everyone! We returned from South Africa yesterday. What an amazing journey! Several blog posts will come out that adventure eventually. Today, though, as I catch up from being away for...

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How Mindfulness Pulled Me Up Cape Town’s Table Mountain

How Mindfulness Pulled Me Up Cape Town’s Table Mountain

by Martha Brettschneider | Apr 12, 2017 | Life Lessons, Mindfulness, Motivation

I wish I had taken a picture of him, but that would have been awkward. We were on our way up the Indian Fenster trail of Cape Town, South Africa's Table Mountain. Fortunately my husband...

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Overcoming My Om Fear at Yogaville

Overcoming My Om Fear at Yogaville

by Martha Brettschneider | Mar 30, 2017 | Life Lessons, Meditation, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Thought Leaders

The sanctuary bells burst into song as I pulled into a parking space at the Light of Truth Universal Shrine (LOTUS) in Buckingham, Virginia. In a pretty decent rendition of Julie Andrews...

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Join Me in May at Modern Femme 2017!

by Martha Brettschneider | Mar 23, 2017 | Mindfulness, Motivation

Greetings friends! Just a quick note today to let you know how excited I am to be part of the amazing speaker lineup at this year's Modern Femme Movement Convention May 4-6 in Virginia...

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5 Reasons to Embrace Alone Time & Take Yourself on an Artist Date

5 Reasons to Embrace Alone Time & Take Yourself on an Artist Date

by Martha Brettschneider | Mar 16, 2017 | Life Lessons, Mindfulness, Motivation

This piece appeared originally on TinyBuddha.com. “It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.” ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh When was the last time you took yourself on a date? Not just...

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No Place to Sit? Try Walking Meditation

No Place to Sit? Try Walking Meditation

by Martha Brettschneider | Mar 9, 2017 | Blooming into Mindfulness, Meditation, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Thought Leaders, Motivation

Vacation and any other sort of travel can wreak havoc on your mindfulness practice. My personal routine on a normal day is to get up early, before anyone else in the house is close to...

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What’s Blooming in My Garden

What’s Blooming in My Garden

by Martha Brettschneider | Mar 2, 2017 | Mindful Gardening, Mindfulness, Photography

The weather was crazy in February in Northern Virginia, with temperatures reaching summer levels for several days at a time. Yesterday it hit 80 degrees. Tonight we'll drop back down to...

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Shining a Hot Spotlight on ICE (what we don’t see from our protected white suburbs)

Shining a Hot Spotlight on ICE (what we don’t see from our protected white suburbs)

by Martha Brettschneider | Feb 23, 2017 | Mindfulness, Motivation

It’s Thursday, blog day, and as I sit here trying to collect my thoughts, I realize what an extraordinarily strange and eye opening week it’s been. Uncertainty seems to grow day by day,...

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Mindful Listening: How Skilled Are You?

Mindful Listening: How Skilled Are You?

by Martha Brettschneider | Feb 16, 2017 | Mindfulness, Motivation

Have you ever taken a good hard look at your listening skills? I’ve been giving this a lot of thought over the past few months. It started when I was answering questions after a book talk...

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