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...
April 17, 2025 “Meditation helps us defuse stress, experience greater tranquility, find a sense of wholeness, strengthen our relationships,...
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....
