It seems all good things come from connection – to each other, to ourself, to nature, to spirit. You might first think connection is what happens between us and another but it also happens within us. Connecting is a capacity of our nervous system, one we need to survive, and also one we can build …
This month, it’s as if a veil has fallen from my eyes; colors are sharper, the light is brighter. Maybe each time the wheel of the year turns to Spring some version of this happens, yet every Spring feels like the first. Beauty all around me insists on my attention, and my response is something …
In a dream I had recently, I was given a key. Someone handed it to me as an answer to a question. Some of the details have faded, but the gist of it was I needed some help with something and didn’t know how to proceed. I stood there in a questioning state, wondering what …
This weekend is a confluence of Holy Holidays, the time of renewal and rising. The word Easter comes from the German ‘Eostre’, the ancient goddess of spring, fertility and beginnings, the freshness and possibility of the new season. Nature tells this story every year, blossoming in all her verdant glory. In this season of resurrection, …
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. “ The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.” …
The meaning of the word obedience my surprise you…etymologically, it means ‘deep listening’. This is the ‘obedience’ of true loving attention and self-care. To turn toward our own body, heart and spirit with that kind of listening may give us the guidance, medicine and comfort we need. We are sensitive beings; it is our design …
Accepting the invitation of this cocoon time, I’ve been going deeper into the practices that stabilize and hold me – conscious breath and meditation, mindful movement, and prayer. I’m so grateful I can do that, and offer that space of care to others. I think of that space inside as Naturalness, grounded in my body …
Here we are, suspended in the pause, the in-between, while the world around us continues to do its job…Which is to change, and ask us to… Yet, in riding the waves of vulnerability and uncertainty, I turn again and again to what is unchanging. It’s what resilience means to me…as many times as I go …
Yoga is a wisdom philosophy realized and understood only through practice. This is one of the profoundly beautiful things about Yoga – it is not only teachings and movements passed down through time, it is brought to life by our direct experience. It is personal and intimate…we breath life into the teachings of Yoga and …
The word for faith used in Yoga is Sraddha. It refers to our faith in the practice, and a trust in the mystery that moves us and connects us. More than ever in these times of transition, change, and uncertainty, we need to lean into our faith and trust in to motivate us to keep …