A couple of weeks ago, I returned from a 7-day silent meditation retreat. “7 days of silence?!” people ask, stunned...
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...
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...
April 2023 “This is one way of speaking about mindfulness, or being present: coming home to ourselves. When we bring...
When we first begin to meditate, we might notice that there is very little space inside our minds. It might...
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?
I was recently reading through some of my past blog posts, and I came across one that I wrote right...
Transitions may be the most important part of a yoga practice. At least if we are present to them. Consider...
Today I got lost – almost literally in my backyard. Well, almost the backyard of the yoga studio, that is....
So…full disclosure – I got an email from Source Yoga the other day saying, “we haven’t seen you for a...