“Our spirit has an instinct for silence. Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we...
My whole young life, I remember my father getting up before dawn and going for his daily run, long before...
When I taught on New Year’s Day morning, I was happy to see my regular Monday morning crowd. I am not a rah-rah kick butt yoga teacher, and if you come to my class regularly, you probably know this about me. I just couldn’t get fired up about inspiring my...
A couple of weeks ago, I returned from a 7-day silent meditation retreat. “7 days of silence?!” people ask, stunned...
One of the conversations we have been having in our current Yoga Teacher Training is about the value or detriment...
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...
Photo courtesy of Liz Gill Where can you pause? For me, it started in the fall. I had just dropped my kids off at school. I was walking out of the playground, and I had to stop. The clouds were spectacular that chilly fall morning – streaking across the sky...
“When we truly rest in awareness, our experience is spacious and intimate, without defenses. With it arises compassion; we feel...
In business and in life, I am often asking myself why I am here. What is the difference I am...
Photo courtesy of Liz Gill “When times are uncertain, difficult, fearful, full of change, they become the perfect place to deepen the practice of awakening.” ‑ Jack Kornfield Well, it’s been a week, hasn’t it? On Wednesday morning, after waking up to the election results, I led a...
