What do you really love, deep down? What do you wish for? What do you actually need? In today’s edition of “Living Joyfully,” I share some inspiration for the path that leads us back to who we truly are. (Click here for audio version) Inside of every gentle horse there is a wild horse, […]
A friend of mine fell off her bike yesterday and broke her ankle. The funny thing is, before she left her house, she had the thought – twice – “don’t go.” But she was on her way to a meeting. She didn’t want to disappoint the people she was supposed to meet. And after all, […]
I’ve been fascinated by the idea that awe is an anti-inflammatory emotion. So many of our modern diseases (labels) involve inflammation – it’s easy to get caught up the world of interpersonal drama, high-rises, sub-divisions, cell-phones, road-rage, the nightly news (!) – and forget that there’s a larger world out there – nature – the […]
Yesterday my son went on his first roller coaster ride (he’s three). They don’t allow parents on the ride. But he really wanted to go! So off he went. I remember a friend years ago describing the process of raising her three boys. “Every day, a greater separation.” Oh no! I thought. Does it have […]
“This morning, I must get off an “important” letter right away—one on which the success of a certain under-taking depends; but instead I write a love letter—which I do not send. I gladly abandon dreary tasks, rational scruples, reactive undertakings imposed by the world, for the sake of a useless task deriving from a dazzling […]
Our world is overheating. We face this difficulty both externally, in the form of global warming, urban sprawl, and armed conflict, and internally, in the form of stress, and the challenge of metabolizing difficult situations and processing the strong emotions they evoke. In the face of hostility and violence breaking out all over the world, […]
Do you sometimes lose sight of the “Big Picture?” Me too. So this week, I’m sharing some of my thoughts on how to get that feeling of purposefulness and centeredness back. As one of my favorite Yoga teachers, Peter Francyk, likes to say, the part of your mind that got you into this mess is […]
This week I had the pleasure of subbing the Tubac Community Yoga class. I shared a Loving-Kindness meditation with the group, to close the practice, and something truly marvelous happened. I could actually feel the effects of the practice, as if every little cell in my body were vibrating at a higher frequency. Have you […]
I get into a mindset sometimes – maybe you do too – when faced with a difficulty. It’s like I brace myself against it. I dig into my strength. I might even get a little feral-cat-like. Growl! In Yoga class this week, I had a very comical reminder that I have other options. We did […]
In one of my most vivid dreams from childhood, I remember walking at nightfall in a great, dark forest – the kind with lots of water – dense pine needles and moss underfoot, huge, ancient pines and spacious canopies of deciduous trees draping their veils of leaves across the network of branches and roots below. […]
