January 2022 These recent foggy days have made me think of the Danish word Hygge – a word that...
Hello Source friends, Have you picked up the newly printed Source Yoga Journal? This is a collaboration between me, Tamiko...
Some people are surprised when they hear that I identify as an introvert. They are usually people who know me only through my yoga teaching, and have seen me, seemingly very comfortable at the front of a room leading a yoga practice. And I am comfortable in the front of...
July 2020 It seems like a strange time to celebrate anything when you take in our public health crisis and...
January 2025 NEW YEAR Hope lives in the blankness of each new calendar square, the footsteps of a few appointments...
Most people I’ve talked to over the last week are holding some form of election anxiey. Whether you get in the weeds of the daily happenings or try to stay out of the fray, it’s virtually impossible to not be impacted by the noise/panic/anger/anxiety that is virtually everywhere in our...
I invite you to bring Beginner’s Mind to your practice and to your life this month. What would it be like if you didn’t have to get it right? If you didn’t have to be perfect? What if you allowed yourself to be a beginner, to make mistakes, without self-judgement and self-criticism? What if you could approach anything from a place of being brand new?
A pretty perfect spot for meditation on my recent vacation… There was a box on my desk waiting for me...
July 2022 “WE WERE MADE FOR THESE TIMES… Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul,...
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?
“Mindfulness, cultivated even for a few minutes, draws the heart toward itself. It invites the intimacy we yearn for and...
March 2023 Yoga is a practice of embodiment. Which makes perfect sense to most of us when much of our exposure to yoga has been asana classes. {Asana is the physical practice of yoga postures and movement.} In asana practice, we are moving our bodies, we are breathing, we are having...
