February, 2023 “The heart opens. The heart closes. This is the systole and diastole of human life. We may...
I stood at the front of the room, my breath a bit shallow, a little nervous to look at the...
“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...
So…full disclosure – I got an email from Source Yoga the other day saying, “we haven’t seen you for a...
Through the ups and downs of this time, many of us have learned that things are always uncertain and ever...
November 2023 When big things happen both in our life and in the world around us, we might struggle to make sense of them and wrestle with how to respond. If you spend any time online (ahem, who doesn’t these days?), you are seeing the events of the world filtered...
January, 2023 In January, I usually write some version of my (gentle) rant against the “New Year, New You” marketing that...
November 2022 “The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.” ~ Coretta...
“It takes boldness, even audacity, to step out of our habitual patterns and experiment with a quality like kindness – to work with it and see just how it might shift and open up our lives.” – Sharon Salzberg Mindfulness for me is like a grand experiment in...
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...