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January 2009

1__#$!@%!#__Aubrey6 This month’s focus for Jivamukti yoga is an interesting one. I am not sure exactly how the Telluride yogis are going to respond to hasahasana (laughter pose), but I am going to do my best.

One of my gurus and co-founder of Jivamukti yoga Sharon Gannon writes:
“Laughter is an ancient yogic healing technique that can rid you of deeply held negative emotions. It has profound therapeutic value in restoring wellbeing and health, leading to happiness. Laughter induces relaxation, and because of its ability to free the body and mind of pent-up emotions that are obstacles to self-reflection, it is a potent prerequisite to meditation. It is good when laughter is spontaneous, but when emotions have been buried for so long that they have become deep-seated tensions, the conscious practice of laughing can be very healing.”

Gannon then goes on to instruct students to roll around on the ground to induce laughing. Though we are not required as Jivamukti instructors to teach this exact approach to the focus, it is highly recommended. When your guru asks you to do something, a true yogi will take it upon himself to execute the request because performing a service for your teacher is one of the greatest acts of karma yoga.

21 January, 2009 /

The following is a summary of KOTO’s history in Jim’s words, writing under the alias B.F. Deal, in volume 7 of the “Koto Nooz”:

“You had to be in Telluride in 1974 to understand why KOTO came into being. At that time, Telluride’s available airwave entertainment consisted of one 1950s-style TV station, one semi-pop AM radio station and zero FM signals. Many of the new faces in town had grown up on music of the free form FM stations of the ‘60s and were ready for the information - and we wanted to live in a community that provided it all.

21 January, 2009 /

"Marley & Me" opens at Telluride's Nugget Theatre on Friday, Jan 23 at 5:30 and 8 PM nightly“A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.” (John Grogan)Cast: Jennifer...

21 January, 2009 /

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20 January, 2009 /

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Some faces of KOTO

Beyond Telluride's KOTO, the FM and AM radio dials are crowded with commercial stations, offering not very much worthwhile around the clock, an incessant roar of rock, C & W, lots of “oldies,” inane talk and harsh rap.

Of the or so thousand public radio stations in the nation, only about a handful are like KOTO with no commercials or commercial underwriting whatsoever.

For 34 years, KOTO has been broadcasting 20 hours a day, 365 days a year from a 3,000-watt transmitter located about 200 yards west of the Coonskin lift. Over 2,500 community supporters comprise the membership. There are more than 200 licensed volunteer DJs, half of who are active on-air. A seven-member board, elected annually for two-year terms at KOTO’s July meeting, provides guidance and oversight.

20 January, 2009 /

SusannaatMicheles Telluride local, Dr. Susanna Hoffman is an anthropologist, (Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley), and the author, co-author, or author/editor of ten books, five non-fiction, five on cooking, and two ethnographic films.

The list of her food titles includes “The Olives and the Caper: Adventures in Greek Cooking,” (Workman 2004), “The Well-filled Microwave,” (Workman, 1996),  “The Well-Filled Tortilla,” (Workman, 1990), “Good and Plenty-America’s New Home Cooking,” (Harper Row, 1988), and the forthcoming “America’s Big Bold Food,” the later four all co-authored with Victoria Wise.

Susanna has written numerous papers, articles, columns, and reviews for collective volumes, food magazines, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals. She appears frequently on television and radio shows, such as “Good Morning America,” “Oprah,” “Discovery,” “The Food Network,” CNN, PBS, and gives numerous public addresses both nationally and internationally on disaster, food, food history, and other topics. She also gives cooking demonstrations.

19 January, 2009 /

by Dr. Susanna Hoffman

January is  when the year’s crop of sweet, juicy oranges begin to arrive in markets. After many months from blossom, to bud, to fruit, they have now ripened on the trees of California and Florida, been plucked and crated, and delivered to stores awaiting their annual appearance.  Oranges are a major crop in the United States. Spanish settlers brought them to America in the 1500s, having acquired them only a century or so earlier from the Arabs. The Arabs in turn had transported them from Southeast Asia to then disperse them on their forays about the Mediterranean. Oranges gave the farmers and cooks of Spain and elsewhere a new taste treat to play with. Soon they developed many types, the Seville and the Valencia among them, and added orange to many of their culinary delights. Following that tradition is an unusual, but stirring preparation for fish, incorporating both orange and Mediterranean-style sweet wine, with a touch of ancient, woody bay leaf.

19 January, 2009 /

by Dr. Susanna Hoffman

So standard are the selections in our markets, we rarely see some of the hundreds of varieties of citrus fruit that grows about the world. But every now and then, a sample of one of the ancient or very new sorts comes our way. Some are:

Kumquats - are a small citrus fruit, looking rather like orange fingerlings, that grow on a bushy shrub with dark green shiny leaves rather than a tall tree. They originated, were eaten, and admired in China and were unknown in the West until they were brought to England in 1846 by Robert Fortune, a specimen collector for The London Botanical Society. He envisioned them as a landscaping ornamental, not an edible, and that was how they first spread across Europe and to the Americas, as a garden shrub. Their bushiness is useful in creating boundaries and privacy, plus they are pretty and when blossoming, fragrant. They also taste wonderful, raw or cooked like powerful, but tart little oranges. In cooking they soften up. They are only available for short seasons once or twice a year.     

19 January, 2009 /

Monday, January 19th from 5 - 7 PM, Telluride Gallery of Fine Art (130 EastColorado Avenue) will host a benefit event to raise money for JohnFahnestock's augmenting medical costs due to a seven year battle withneurological disease. First diagnosed with Parkinson's and then with...

18 January, 2009 /

Fourteen year old MacKenzie Mansour, from Lone Oak, TX, has been skiing with Telluride Adaptive Sports Program this past week. MacKenzie has a rare genetic condition known as Williams Syndrome. That has not stopped her from enjoying our mountain. I had the privilege of skiing...

17 January, 2009 /