November 2023 When big things happen both in our life and in the world around us, we might struggle to...
February, 2023 “The heart opens. The heart closes. This is the systole and diastole of human life. We may...
January, 2023 In January, I usually write some version of my (gentle) rant against the “New Year, New You” marketing that we see everywhere, but this year I can’t seem to muster the energy. Let me give you the TL;DR version – you are enough as you are, and there is no resolution...
November 2022 “The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.” ~ Coretta...
Through the ups and downs of this time, many of us have learned that things are always uncertain and ever...
“Mindfulness, cultivated even for a few minutes, draws the heart toward itself. It invites the intimacy we yearn for and that is calling to us because, ultimately, mindfulness is intimacy – with ourselves and the world – underneath any apparent separation between the two.” Jon Kabat-Zinn I think about why...
I stood at the front of the room, my breath a bit shallow, a little nervous to look at the...
My whole young life, I remember my father getting up before dawn and going for his daily run, long before...
The longer I teach and practice yoga, the gentler my teaching and practice become. I tell my yoga friends, “pretty soon we will just be doing Savasana for 90 minutes!” That might be an exaggeration, but for me (and for many teachers I know), there is a broader movement towards...
So…full disclosure – I got an email from Source Yoga the other day saying, “we haven’t seen you for a...
“It takes boldness, even audacity, to step out of our habitual patterns and experiment with a quality like kindness...