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 to appreciate the discomfort, agitation even, that comes just at the brink of something new. It’s the feeling of potential, it’s the feeling of growth. It is energy coiling up…
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 was installed at our parents’ grave. Things have changed. We’ve changed. We are in the midst of it all… exhilarating, confusing, motivating, sometimes stupefying. With (a lot of) practice, I’ve…
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, it’s the body’s awareness that something is happening now. (The featured photo shows a system that has not managed the demands of a 13 mile run in -20 degrees very…
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 up against late nights and early mornings. Can you sense it? There is change on the horizon. The seasons are starting to shift again. With this one comes association and anticipation. They…
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 biopsy that day. They were back home but it wasn’t going well. A few hours later they were back at the hospital. Twenty-four hours later, I was on my way…
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 the Sun. We roll from one day into the next, one phase of life to another. Our lives unfold before us. I think we assume that there is a progression,…
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 also see? There is seeing that is more subtle than guided by the sun. There is a brilliant light, astonishing in the winter. It is reflected in the snow. It…
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, includes people and pets and plants.) It’s not just physical stuff. It’s also aspirations and disappointment and sometimes, it’s just too much. Schedules get packed like sardines, inboxes overflow, that…
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 stream of tail lights weaves its way between the majestic maples and oaks that persist alongside all of the people here. Their leaves scream their brilliant swan song as the…
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 best homes for the heart. Equanimity is especially helpful when facing pleasure or pain, and, when dealing with those whose actions are not aligned with our values. BKS Iyengar (my…
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