I stood at the front of the room, my breath a bit shallow, a little nervous to look at the...
Through the ups and downs of this time, many of us have learned that things are always uncertain and ever...
November 2022 “The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.” ~ Coretta Scott King I’ve always felt the generous and compassionate actions of the Source Yoga community. You show up for each other, you contribute generously when we ask, and you make...
The longer I teach and practice yoga, the gentler my teaching and practice become. I tell my yoga friends, “pretty...
So…full disclosure – I got an email from Source Yoga the other day saying, “we haven’t seen you for a...
“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...
January, 2023 In January, I usually write some version of my (gentle) rant against the “New Year, New You” marketing that...
“It takes boldness, even audacity, to step out of our habitual patterns and experiment with a quality like kindness...
February, 2023 “The heart opens. The heart closes. This is the systole and diastole of human life. We may imagine that we want our hearts to stay open, but full-hearted generosity – with others and with ourselves – is all-inclusive. It is not a command. It is an invitation...
November 2023 When big things happen both in our life and in the world around us, we might struggle to...
AUGUST 2024 WINGS OF MINDFULNESS: A DAY OF INSIGHT AND COMPASSION Next Sunday, August 11st with Erin Joosse with live...
My whole young life, I remember my father getting up before dawn and going for his daily run, long before any of the rest of us in the house were up. When I would stagger to the kitchen a couple of hours later, he would be whistling and humming, happy...
