From an Instagram post I made 58 weeks ago when pandemic was young: 🌿My survival strategies: breathe, nature, allllllllll the immune-boosters, hand-washing (obvi), flower essences, kriya for the 10 bodies, metta meditation, extra dance parties, sewing, reading, cleaning the kitchen, frequent hugs from the people…
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The place where I teach yoga from home is my bedroom. Standing on my mat, I look east, and beyond the Douglas Fir who keeps time for the neighborhood, beyond the array of arborvitae and cedar trees in the mid-ground, beyond Rocky Butte, my eyes…
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Night Vision One of our favorite picture books is Dahlov Ipcar’s “The Cat at Night.” The book follows a cat, whose people believe him to be fast asleep all night, on many adventures through the long, dark, wonderful night. Cats can see at night, and…
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I wanted to write from the amorphous abyss of the unknown, because this is the realm of Yoga. And so, here I write. From the early morning, waning moon darkness of the day following Election Day. I write from the very bottom of the exhalation…
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I have wondered over the past few weeks about the potential process of healing from the crisis of this presidential administration.* Among the systems that we know are in need of repair is our capacity and skill in relating to those with whom we disagree,…
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This post originated as a newsletter to my weekly subscribers. However, the question really struck a chord in my heart, so I wanted to expand on the topic here and offer more depth to the analysis. What are you known for? I recently received this…
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My vision in creating the space for (and even in just naming) Future Blessings is to come together and create something for our children, their children, their children and beyond, through yoga. The principles that are guiding me in this work are: collaboration & interdependence…
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after a late-winter dive into the deepest Piscean emotion ocean, i am up for air. and attending to a death of an old self. somewhere in my psyche, my samskaric battling armor, i acquired things that all of a sudden after all this time* had…
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or the painting is on its own path. or our karmas are intertwined. I’m enrolled in a writing class at our local university this term. It’s a basic composition class, very similar to a writing class my first year of college nearly twenty-three years ago.…
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Are you a white person who is afraid of being called a racist? It wouldn’t surprise me if you were, but I invite you to step into the liberating svadhyaya (self-study) practice of admitting your racism. I am a white woman living the United States.…
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