I have been paying visits to my yoga mat since 1993 and at first, it was just a casual, getting-to-know-you kind of relationship. We weren’t fully committed to one another until around 2003 when things started to get ... Read More...
Reap What You Sow
“Spring has sprung, the grass has riz, I wonder where the flowers is?” a pithy verse that my Mother used to say around this time of year. And riz it has! As I was walking today, I noticed the first blossom on a ... Read More...
Concentrate
As I was checking out an article from The Tricycle Community, something caught my attention. “Studies show that the average human now has an attention span of just eight seconds, down from 12 seconds in the year 2000”. ... Read More...
Hard Is Hard
Recently, I was in conversation with a friend who was telling me about making a big shift in their life and commenting on how hard it is to be moving and letting go of a familiar way of being. I simply replied, “well, ... Read More...
Purpose
I was interested in checking out an online movie recently entitled “Meditation”. I clicked on the link and as the serene music began to play, a voice spoke the following words: “Our purpose in life is to help each other ... Read More...
Your Life Is Your Message
During one of my visits to New Delhi, India, I walked past a large poster of Mahatma Gandhi that said, “My life is my message”. I stopped and thought, “Yes...that couldn’t be more perfect”. Some part of me wanted to ... Read More...
Mudita
I don’t know if grief ever truly ends. I’m in the mourning phase of grief with the recent death of my Mother. It’s been a month since she passed and I find myself getting through the days, doing my work, staying with my ... Read More...
Karma
Karma---It’s become a familiar word in our daily vernacular. But what is it? When we witness somebody acting in an undesirable way, we often quip, “oooh…that’s a bunch of bad karma” but is it really and what does it ... Read More...
Be With What Is
One of my frequent sayings about our yoga practice is that whatever you’re needing to practice will jump right out in front of you. And so it has been for me, following the recent death of my Mother. I’m in the second ... Read More...
1000 Arms
We know that it will happen but usually we never know when. Death comes to us all one day and yet so many of us, at some level, live thinking otherwise. In recent years, I have confronted the idea of death by listening ... Read More...
The Chrysalis
I can’t specifically recall when I learned about caterpillars morphing into butterflies but I do have images in my mind of a schoolroom with a waterless aquarium and a stick. The stick was literally the sticking point of ... Read More...
Feet in the Dirt, Hands on the Heart
During my hiatus this past summer, we went to an old-growth redwood grove that has never been logged. Walking into the grove and being amongst the giant beings was awe-inspiring and a reminder that they have been alive ... Read More...
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