In The Princess Bride, one of my favorite movies, the evil prince Humperdinck has dragged Princess Buttercup to the altar. There’s a great deal of noise outside the castle, and he knows that her true love Westley is coming to save her in a matter of minutes.
At Source Yoga, this year we have been cautious about gathering and have been holding the safety and well being...
One of the conversations we have been having in our current Yoga Teacher Training is about the value or detriment of mindfulness hitting the mainstream. When Jon Kabat-Zinn introduced the word and concept of mindfulness to health care in the 70’s, with the creation of the Stress Reduction Clinic at...
So…full disclosure – I got an email from Source Yoga the other day saying, “we haven’t seen you for a...
November 2024 CARING FOR OURSELVES AND FOR EACH OTHER Well, it’s been quite a week. How are you caring for...
“When we truly rest in awareness, our experience is spacious and intimate, without defenses. With it arises compassion; we feel our heart’s natural connection with life.” –Jack Kornfield, meditation teacher In our current political climate, many people on both sides of the political aisle are feeling uncertain. Many people I...
Thank you to our friends at The Birthing Inn, Tacoma’s only free standing birth center, for asking Source Yoga to...
Most people I’ve talked to over the last week are holding some form of election anxiey. Whether you get in...
June 2020 “It is the willingness to offer our best, claim responsibility for our worst, and fold it into the continuous moment-to-moment practice of simply being present to what is that promises to deliver our future.” Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Radical Dharma Picking up my phone to read the news the...
I realized today that my morning meditations have been a bit more grounded than they were in the summer months and...
February, 2023 “The heart opens. The heart closes. This is the systole and diastole of human life. We may...
I hope you are taking moments to pause and take in the last days of summer. I can sense fall around the corner – the crispness of the mornings, the golden colors of plants in their final days of flourishing, the reds emerging from the tops of the trees and...