Hello Friends, In the famous bestseller, Getting the Love you Want, Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt write, “restoring the awareness of our connection is the source of all healing.” They talk at length about the importance of connection, and how easy it is for us to lose our sense of connection with each other, […]
Hello Friends, In A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle describes the difference between inner purpose and outer purpose. Our outer purpose can take many different forms: raising a happy family, pursuing our career, volunteering with organizations whose mission we support, and so on. Our inner purpose is always the same: to awaken to the present moment. […]
Hi Everyone, Every year I make mistakes. I’m not talking about tripping on your shoelace. I’m talking about the real doozys. One year, when Avenues Yoga had only been open a short time, I brought in a renowned teacher from out of state and fronted his salary, with the expectation that enough students would come […]
Hi Everyone, “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” -Rumi In The Gifts of Imperfection, Brene Brown shares a profound discovery from her research: There is only one thing that separates men and women who feel a […]
Hi Everyone, I took the kids apple picking at Vermont’s own Chapin Farm yesterday. They had so much fun climbing on the old tractor (with lots of mama help) and picking apples. At one point, my little boy, Aiden, kept cheering, “happy! happy!” as he chased his sister down the grassy lane between the old […]
Hi Everyone, One of the primordial sources of suffering is the feeling of non-acceptance of WHAT IS. The feeling of rejecting what is happening, or what has happened. We all have this part of ourselves that sits back in judgment over the events of our lives. We look back on some events and think, “That […]
Hi Everyone, The kids and I have really been enjoying visiting Grandma and Grandpa in Vermont. In fact, we like it so much we’ve decided to stay. (I knew this would happen.) In the mornings, I’ve been sitting on the front porch, watching the sunrise sparkle the dew on the lawn, sipping my coffee, and […]
Hi Everyone, Yesterday I took little Aiden, my one-year-old, on a slow drive to help him get started on his nap. He does not like to take a nap. (He has F.M.O. – Fear of Missing Out.) But if he does not take a nap, then nothing is fun. We call that a catch-22. So […]
Hi Everyone, So, I have been traveling with the kids for more than two weeks now – what an adventure! We’ve been at the ocean, and we went to the San Diego zoo too. (They have good ice cream there!) This week we’re in Vermont visiting my parents. I miss the studio and all my […]
