“It takes boldness, even audacity, to step out of our habitual patterns and experiment with a quality like kindness...
“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 here to make? Sometimes that is a big, general life question – what am I supposed to do with this life? And sometimes that is a small, daily question –...
Every yoga teacher will tell you that they are still a yoga student. Or at least, they should. If anyone...
A couple of weeks ago, I returned from a 7-day silent meditation retreat. “7 days of silence?!” people ask, stunned...
LAST CALL FOR LATE WINTER/EARLY SPRING RETREAT WITH ERIN JOOSSE February 29th-March 3rd, Harmony Hill Retreat Center Kalyāṇa-mitta is a Pali term and Buddhist concept of which means spiritual friendship, or admirable friendship. Within the Pali Canon (the first recorded teachings of the Buddha), one of the followers/disciples of the...
I recently returned from a 5-day silent meditation retreat. Before I go any farther, let me assure you that it is not like going on vacation.
November 2022 It’s a roller coaster, isn’t it – being alive during this time? It’s true that things...
Only a week later, my inner yoga teacher shows up again; she too, has gone on retreat. She reminds me of the definition of the word mindful, as used by Jon Kabat-Zinn, the originator of MBSR in the West. Mindfulness is about paying attention in a non-judgmental way. I can pay attention mindfully, I like to think. I have a much harder time paying attention without judgment. So my inner yoga teacher says: What if your discomfort isn’t something for you to analyze away? What if you don’t need to do anything about your discomfort? What if you just noticed it?
“In an age of speed, I began to think, nothing could be more invigorating than going slow. In an age...
My whole young life, I remember my father getting up before dawn and going for his daily run, long before...
When we first begin to meditate, we might notice that there is very little space inside our minds. It might seem like just as we are trying to sit down and settle down, our brain goes into hyperdrive. We might be making to do lists, we might be replaying something...