Beryl Bender

Hope you will join me this summer for my 43rd consecutive year of teaching yoga and meditation at Omega Institute in Rhinebeck NY. It is always a transformational week with friends, students, and seekers coming together for inspiration and support in our spiritual journeys -

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Awake, Aware, Alive Discover how meditation and yoga can infuse every part of your life with clarity, resilience, and joy, on retreat with author and yogi Beryl Bender.

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Mark Carney just landed in Australia. Read that again.

The Prime Minister of Canada got on a plane, flew to the other side of the fu***ng planet, and did something absolutely radical in 2026. He acted like a grown adult.

He's here to meet with business leaders. To talk trade. To build relationships. To shake hands, look people in the eye, and say "how can we work together?" Like a fu***ng professional. Like a leader who actually gives a s**t about his people.

That's what real leadership looks like. You forge relationships. You forge alliances. You forge bonds. You forge trust. You show up with integrity and honour and you put your best foot forward for the people you represent. Canada's doing it for Canadians. We do it for Australians. India's doing it for Indians. The whole world is getting on with it. That's how civilisation works.

Meanwhile, across the Pacific, President Wrecking Ball is driving a D9 bulldozer through a kindergarten with no brakes, no steering wheel, and no fu***ng clue. Flattening every ally, every trade deal, and every relationship America spent 80 years building. Bulldozing the s**t out of countries who were literally your best mates last Tuesday.

Tariffs on Canada. Tariffs on Australia. Tariffs on the Europeans. Tariffs on fu***ng everyone. The bloke negotiates like a toddler who just found a hammer. Everything's a nail. Everything's on fire. And he's standing there going "why won't anyone play with me?"

Because you're a psychopath, Donald. That's why.

And here's Mark Carney. No tantrums. No threats. No 3am meltdowns on social media. Just a bloke who got on a plane, landed in Sydney, and started doing the actual job. Building bridges while Trump burns every last one of them to the ground.

Thank god there are still fu***ng adults in the room.
~Gman

I hope you are all following the Buddhist monks Walk for Peace - it’s a monumental moment in our history. I think it’s going to be a game changer. I feel as if I’m watching the Buddha or Jesus or a great teacher speak, when I listen to their lead monk, Bhikku Pannakara. People have been coming out by the thousands to watch then walk, to walk with them, to follow. the monks are not carrying signs, they are not speaking, except Pannakara, they are not proselytizing, they aren’t selling anything - they are simply walking for peace and people.

All types of people are responding in an overwhelmingly powerful way - they have walked from Fort Worth Texas thru the south and been supported in every town and state by the police, the sheriffs, the fire departments and the people.

This is important - watch any of the Walk for peace videos on youtube - this is not a one and done event - it is a growing movement. And if you are news fasting - that is fine - keep on it - just watch the youtube videos - it’s news you need

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Please call Senator Chuck Schumer's office & encourage him to "hold the line" and "NOT TO CAVE this time" on refusing to approve funding for the Department of Homeland Security without reforms aimed at reining in immigration enforcement operations across the United States. This is URGENT - call now!!
Senator Chuck Schumer's Washington D.C. office can be reached directly at (202) 224-6542.

Thank you Inlet Yoga for a terrific weekend of mindfulness meditation, beach walks, connecting with friends, and the best avocado toast. Studio Bamboo Institute of Yoga

My Christmas Wish -----

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

Rabindranath Tagore

RFK is trying to ban Mifepristone - a word of advice for RFK

Women's March

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Please take a moment to read (if you value owls and old growth forests) and send a note to your senators to say thanks for supporting or WTF for voting no

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Senate Turns Back Sen. John Kennedy’s Plea for Sparing Owls Democrat senators defect en masse and allow shooters to slaughter owls

YES!!!!

Sunday thought: We're winning These are terrible times, to be sure. But we will triumph