Retreat curious
Is this your status? Are you “retreat curious?” I LOVE this curious feeling… granted, I’m biased… I’ve spent a lot of time training my brain…
Category: Yoga
Going Home
This is a post about home and family. This month my siblings and I sold the house that we grew up in and, a headstone…
How to manage stress: 3 simple strategies
We all know the feeling of stress… whether it’s the pressure of a bulging belly, the strain of loaded muscles, or a deeply furrowed brow,…
Seasons of change
Is it the Halloween decorations at Costco or the back-to-school notices in the mail? Maybe it’s the subtle feel of the fringe of darkness brushing…
April update
A week ago, or I guess now it was two, I got a phone call. My sister in NY had taken my dad for a…
Evolve
Evolve, from the Latin evolvere “to unroll, roll out, roll forth, unfold.” It’s what we do. Here, embodied, we roll, on this planet of ours around…
Dark and light
Are you afraid of the dark? Have you not realized that your eyes will adjust, that your hands and your ears, and your nose can…
3 steps to find yourself in the midst of it all
It’s that season again… colder temps, shorter days, and kindred traditions have us spending more time indoors, surrounded by stuff (which for some of us,…
Waves: consistent and unpredictable
In this case the waves are on land. I’m on the Belt Parkway to JFK, before 7 am and already it’s bumper to bumper. A…
Equanimity: 10th Perfection Practice
Equanimity is the 10th perfection practice. It is a position of poise. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali tell us that equanimity is one of the…
