November 2023 When big things happen both in our life and in the world around us, we might struggle to...
A couple of weeks ago, I returned from a 7-day silent meditation retreat. “7 days of silence?!” people ask, stunned...
January 2022 “Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.” – Etty Hillesum Why do you practice yoga? For me, a few different answers arise in response to this question. My yoga asana practice offers me the gift of knowing and being...
The longer I teach and practice yoga, the gentler my teaching and practice become. I tell my yoga friends, “pretty...
Photo courtesy of Liz Gill Where can you pause? For me, it started in the fall. I had just dropped...
I completed my first yoga teacher training in September, 2000, at Ghost Rach, New Mexico. This was an intensive training, a few weeks in the desert, immersed in yoga and meditation. One of our last mornings, after a 5 am meditation, I stood outside, under a spectacular sky of stars,...
This holiday season, the words I kept repeating to myself were “good enough.” Good enough, as in, who needs perfect? I recently read Big Magic, by Elizabeth Gilbert, about living a creative life. In one section, she writes about her creative process
This Monday, I dropped my daughter off at her first day of kindergarten. Weeks before she stepped into her new...
Normally, I’d be all about the homework. I am one of those people who’s ridiculously happy to be a lifelong student. I have 2 grad school degrees, for goodness’ sake. I miss taking classes besides yoga. But I have to admit that the MBSR homework is a struggle.
April 2023 “This is one way of speaking about mindfulness, or being present: coming home to ourselves. When we bring...
Hello Source friends, Have you picked up the newly printed Source Yoga Journal? This is a collaboration between me, Tamiko...
August 2020 I learned a new word recently – a word that perfectly described something I was doing that has not been serving me well. Doomscrolling. The nightly scroll of news and media, reading articles and headlines about how much is going wrong in the world. Not the most relaxed or pleasant...