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Stoop Sits

by Gina

At the start of the quarantine and shelter in place orders during the COVID19 pandemic, I decided to create a virtual neighborhood stoop on which come together, talk about how we feel, apply some yogic wisdom and do a daily guided meditation.The first season episodes were all originally on Instagram Live with accompanying video and live participation from guests and we called it "It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood" for those 32 days.For Season 2 onward, these weekly, lively, un-polished sessions are called simply "Stoop Sits" so we can keep the neighborly goodness going.

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  1. Stoop Sits - 8/24/20 Season Finale

    In today’s Stoop Sit I talk about resilience (today’s buzz word) and the yoga/Ayurveda perspective on it: OJAS. I also share a framework for keeping your ojas high as we head into a potential stressful period in time! . While Stoop Sits is on break, I’ll keep doing the Daily Dice Reality Riff and...

  2. Stoop Sits - 08/18/20

    “Take It As It Comes” sparked today’s talk and reminded me of the Hindu deity Ganesha and seeing perceived obstacles as path. It’s such an important time to care for yourself so that you don’t lose sight of your incredible capacity to keep showing up as your true self, come what may, obstacles be...

  3. Stoop Sits - 08/11/20

    It’s a Big Feeling day over here so I ventilate my heart’s music and offer the great teachings this powerful moment is making available to us if you’re willing. Are you ready to double down on living an authentic life?! CARPE DIEM

  4. Stoop Sits - 08/04/20

    On the virtual stoop today I talk about this idea of being more you now than you ever have been before. Why? Or why not? What hinders us? I talk again about energy stewardship and boundaries too. Then we sit! This sit gets interrupted by a poor connection (weird since I have google fiber) so I’m...

  5. Stoop Sits - 07/27/20

    Today’s stoop talk emerged from a place of tenderness and gratitude around something I’m going through and I hope the discussion of energetic stewardship and boundaries is of benefit to you in navigating your own challenges!

  6. Stoop Sits - 07/21/20

    Today we explore the idea of probing some of the ways we may unintentionally restrict or “incarcerate ourselves” and the concept of getting into behavioral grooves that may ultimately leave us feeling toxic. Then we sit and remember that our thoughts and emotions are our domain alone, we can…

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  7. Stoop Sits - 07/14/20

    After a friend dumped me on Instagram, I got to pondering this idea that some people think we can't be serious about what's going on in the world if we're still engaging in play, silliness and joy. And that's just a part of our conditioned consciousness that says we're either THIS or THAT. But...

  8. Stoop Sits - 7/7/20

    Hey neighbs! Today I talk about why we suffer, what causes it, how our relationship with the “sweet confinement of our aloneness” impacts it and what to do about it. Grateful to you for being here!! May it be of benefit 🥰 #stoopsits #meditation #yoga #kleshas #keepshining

  9. Stoop Sits - 6/30/20

    Hey neighbors! In today's episode I talk about how challenged we’re feeling with everything that's happening in the world, playing the long game, getting into top nervous system shape and exactly how meditation can help (vs a vague “it’s good for you”). May it be of benefit! 🙏

  10. Stoop Sits - 6/23/20

    It’s my birthday week! 48 is right around the corner and I’ve been in REFLECTION. Today I talk about how “healing is the unlearning of patterns” and what that means to me. I also talk about how to use the practices of Yoga to support that process and then we get right to it with a Wholeness...

  11. Stoop Sits - 6/16/20

    Hey Neighbors! Join me on the Stoop to talk about the call to awaken to your conditioned consciousness, do the inner work to disrupt some regressive patterns and then the outer work to activate change in the world, starting with you. Trick is, little things like identifying as…

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  12. Stoop Sits - 6/9/20

    We are back on the STOOP! We had a powerful week on mute and I was so grateful for the invitation to speak to this concept of feeling “high vibration” vs “low vibration” emotions and the harm those labels can do. I also riff on wholeness, metabolization and the generation of empowered compassion....

  13. Stoop Sits - 5/26/20

    Back on the Stoop with my neighbors and it feels so good! Today I share two things that I hope help. One is an excerpt from Brene Brown’s UT graduation speech and the other are Dr. Amy Cuddy’s 3 Psychological Phases of Crises. And then we do our koshas guided meditation to remember our wholeness...

  14. Stoop Sits - 5/19/20

    Today the neighbors slide onto the virtual stoop and we talk TRUTH. Right now we're all trying to figure out the day to day truth and some of us are taking this time to explore our bigger and deeper truth. Is there “the truth” or only YOUR truth? Obstacles to finding it and the two necessary...

  15. Stoop Sits - 5/12/20

    On the Virtual Stoop today we explore whether we're treating this time as a "pause" or a "shift"? And also whether we are WAITING for things to change and in so doing if we're missing the opportunities to find meaning and be meaningful? Are we contributing to our own suffering by waiting through...

  16. Stoop Sits - 5/5/20

    It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood is back as Stoop Sits! In today's episode we have a very happy return to Instagram Live to connect with the live crew again. Gina talks about her vision for this next iteration which includes a lot of rawness, a marked lack of polishing and a lot of…

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  17. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 4/16/20

    Today, on our last stoop sit before I head into 10 days of Advanced Teacher Training, I share the 2 words that emerged when I focused on this last day: CARPE DIEM. I get REAL fired up talking about the opportunity we have amidst all this and what I think the Universe is offering us. And I'm...

  18. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 4/15/20

    Today's invitation to stay awake, present and intentional in the midst of all this is to explore a strength or growth that has been revealed through this experience so far and a regressive pattern or "exciting gap" that has been revealed. This gives you a chance to celebrate growth and identify...

  19. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 4/14/20

    Today I share a sweet surprise gift from my friend Monica and what my 2nd favorite job of all time is. Then we discuss ESSENTIAL in depth, as relates to each layer of your consciousness as well as short term essential vs long game essential. What is truly essential to your thriving and surviving…

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  20. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 4/13/20

    Today's topic du jour is RESILIENCE!! And how it is deeply rooted in your sense of self and reflects your fluid power. And that no external teacher/person/guide can ever give it to you, it can be supported but only YOU can generate it within yourself. Awareness is key. And of course we do our...

  21. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 4/12/20

    Happy Day to you, whatever you may be celebrating! Today I share a little family snapshot of our Easter mornings and candy with a side story about my one and only Seder meal. Then explore the theme of renewed life and rising up as relates to where we are in this junction space between old and new...

  22. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 4/11/20

    SUPER SPECIAL AMAZING SURPRISE GUESTS TODAY!!! Omg my face hurts from smiling! Michael and Sara Franti drop in unexpectedly for a sweet serenade and we do some Q&A before our sit! I hope this makes your Saturday special too! May it be of benefit!

  23. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 4/10/20

    Today's human question is around zit stickers and then I dive right into an exploration of Negativity Bias - why we do it and how profoundly depleting and upsetting it can be. My suspicion is that we're all likely doing it right now, riding the Negativity Bias Flume Ride. Then I give 4 steps to...

  24. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 4/9/20

    Today I get your 2 cents on whether to shave my head, we talk about staying awake and sustainable actions to do that, we're graced by Pema Chodron's teachings on staying in the middle of nowhere to cultivate tenderness and compassion and I ask your advice on slowing my roll with the release of...

  25. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 4/8/20

    After I go a little bit cookoo at the beginning of our stoop sit and share my new t-shirt, I tell the super quick, Ginafied version of the Ramayana with emphasis on Hanuman and why he is an interesting role model for the times we find ourselves in. I incorrectly name a translation author, not...

  26. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 4/7/20

    It's Taco Tuesday and I wanted to Tacobout the fact that you've already done what we might have labeled impossible. And I share how I make it through a morning run and how that feels like exactly what we're doing to make it through this challenge stronger and wiser than before. And of course, we...

  27. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 4/6/20

    I come clean about my neighborHOODIE collection with this one that embarrasses me. And talk about how the ways we have fed our "identity" on the level of manomaya kosha may be causing you to suffer right now and hinder your ability to track how you're really feeling and how best to use your...

  28. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 4/5/20

    Super Soul Sunday! Today I read a quote from Sally Kempton on Loneliness and read the stunningly gorgeous and timely poem The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer. I read it years ago but it has never meant more than it means to me right now when we're co-creating a new paradigm through which we...

  29. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 4/4/20

    Today I offer an invitation to explore 1) What changes/commitments/rituals/practices have BEEN WORKING for you over the last 3 weeks and 2) What changes/commitments/rituals/practices have NOT BEEN WORKING for you over the last 3 weeks. Its a great time for a check in and an acknowledgement that...

  30. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 4/3/20

    Today I'm moved to tears of joy at witnessing the support and love from others who are in equally dire straits. I share a story from the anthropologist Margaret Mead about what the first signs of civilization are in a culture and how we now have the opportunity to be the most civil we've ever…

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  31. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 4/2/20

    Join us on the virtual stoop! Today I talk about planning, those of us that identify as the "planners", how impossible that is right now, anticipatory anxiety and how to work with what we're feeling when we can't plan for shit right now. Then, of course, we sit and do a very IN THE NOW koshas...

  32. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 4/1/20

    While it's probably the least April Foolsy feeling April Fools Day ever, I wear my bathrobe hoodie (I see you Lebowski) and talk about Hasya, one of the Tantric Nava Rasas or 9 emotional essences. It is one of the 9 "flavors" of human emotion and one we don't want to forget, even in the toughest...

  33. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 3/31/20

    Today I talk about why I'm wearing an enormous Burton sweatshirt from 1993 and why I'll never get rid of it. What snowboarding taught me about my ego and expanding my shame threshold to stay with the things I really want and believe in. The transcendence of the conditioned patterns of our ego is...

  34. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 3/30/20

    It's a no BS Monday in the neighborhood! I talk about how we can work with the news that we'll be social distancing for another month and that we're more prepared for this than we believe. "Reverend" Gina is in the house today!! Then we go into a calm-inducing pranayama right into our koshas...

  35. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 3/29/20

    It's Sunday! I sing the chorus of U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday and the moment my world expanded at U2 in Oakland in 1987 on the Joshua Tree tour. We have a moment of silent gratitude for the healthcare professionals that are having to heal people physically and hold space for their intense emotions....

  36. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 3/28/20

    I say hi to as many neighbors as I can today, sing Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting by Elton John, I talk about my theory of your preferred way of dressing being from the period of your life when you were forming your identity, we do some Q&A about music and meditation and teaching and then…

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  37. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 3/27/20

    Today we sing a little Friday I'm In Love by the Cure, talk about wearing hoodies from schools you didn't go to, rank our friends based on who you would call to break you out of jail and then I riff on how to hold space for your feelings and inquire into what they're trying to tell you based on…

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  38. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 3/26/20

    New hoodie alert! And I talk about waning enthusiasm for "workability" and the importance of having Reliable Ritual Resources at the Ready for when you start to mentally and energetically dip. We're unlikely to make them up in the peak of panic so good to know thyself and have them on hand and…

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  39. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 3/25/20 - Wanderlust IG Takeover

    I did a takeover of Wanderlust's Instagram today and offered a little talk, a Yogafied coping practice 5-4-3-2-1 to discharge stress and get energy moving more intentionally again and, of course, our daily koshas meditation! Special thanks to all the neighbors from here who showed up there - I…

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  40. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 3/24/20

    Today we reminisce about the Oregon Trail game and what it taught us about discerning what is truly important and essential, I read from my email with some questions to help you in making long-game decisions right now and, of course, our beautiful sit together. Thanks neighbors!

  41. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 3/23/20

    Real talk about how to make use of this time when we're feeling the loss of things we love and a feeling of loss around our freedoms. In the pandemic time, we might label this "quarantine" but in other traditions, like Vipassana and Buddhism, there are voluntary times of this reduction called...

  42. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 3/22/20

    Today we did some Q&A about a bunch of things, yoga, koshas, meditation, playlists, self-care and embracing your offerings! Then a koshas-inspired meditation. May it be of benefit.

  43. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 3/21/20

    Today I riff on Seth Godin's blog post with the message to not "day trade" emotions. Buy and hold. Stand for something. Stick with it. We get what we repeat. Followed by a nice sit. :) May it be of benefit.

  44. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 3/20/20

    Ironically, its the International Day of Happiness and for some of us, that's the furthest from how we feel! I talk about a teaching my teacher Max Strom gave me about an access point to true happiness, not just the smear of happiness on top of discontent. And Happy Birthday Mr. Rogers! Followed…

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  45. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 3/19/20

    Hey neighbors! Today I talked about the root of our fears being uncertainty. No playbook. No precedent. And we tend to focus on what we DON'T know. But right now is a call for us to recognize what we DO KNOW and that we are adaptable and can rise up to whatever changes happen. Reading from Pema...

  46. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 3/18/20

    With inspiration from the beloved Mr. Rogers, our neighborhood came together again today to talk about suffering as the friction caused by resisting what is. And how hard but beneficial it is to release it. Reading from Jack Kornfield's The Wise Heart. Then we sat in meditation together. May it…

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  47. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 3/17/20

    Today I talk about how WE CAN DO HARD THINGS and read from "Finding Flow" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi before we meditate together. May it be of benefit.

  48. It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood - 3/16/20

    During this time of social distancing, here's a daily chance to get together, share a little wisdom and sit together. These episodes were originally on Instagram Live and shifted into Podcast form after 30 days for ease of replay.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

At the start of the quarantine and shelter in place orders during the COVID19 pandemic, I decided to create a virtual neighborhood stoop on which come together, talk about how we feel, apply some yogic wisdom and do a daily guided meditation.The first season episodes were all originally on Instagram Live with accompanying video and live participation from guests and we called it "It's A Workable Day In The Neighborhood" for those 32 days.For Season 2 onward, these weekly, lively, un-polished sessions are called simply "Stoop Sits" so we can keep the neighborly goodness going.

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Gina

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religion spirituality

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At the start of the quarantine and shelter in place orders during the COVID19 pandemic, I decided to create a virtual neighborhood stoop on which come together, talk about how we feel, apply some yogic wisdom and do a daily guided meditation.The first season episodes were all originally on...

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