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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There are so many things I can write about sound and meditation practices, but that would keep them confined to the realm of the mental: the realm where the mind convinces us that by consuming information “about” a practice, we “know” all there is to…
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I’m in the middle of one of my favorite teaching opportunities: MEDITATION FOUNDATIONS. It is such a delight to share the wonder of meditation in the container specifically designed for locating & learning the foundations of practice. I’ve been teaching meditation in this format (among…
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chirp. sigh. roar. blue-gold-blazing coral. cedar & hemlock commingle under my hands. commercial flights begin their ebb and flow in earnest around 6am. for a time, this is their sky. once the initial flurry of their wings, beaks and spindly tucked-up legs has passed, the…
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Hello Dearest Sweets, Episode 123 of Sunrose Yoga is a conversation with Andrea Sanders. I have known Andrea for years, since we were both living in Seattle, and it was really fun to talk about practice and projects together. Andrea calls herself a “self-taught soul…
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I made something for you: The At-Home Retreat This course is designed to help you sink in-to a practice of creativity, yoga, meditation and connection over the weekend. This course includes 3 full-length yoga classes, 1 guided audio meditation session, 1 guided audio pranayama session…
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This morning, like most, I sat with the rising sun. We see her rise later now. 5am is so much darker, though so much warmer, now than it was a month ago. Even in silent stillness, the world is alive. The world moves. The universe…
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I just returned from a sweet weekend in community with some yogini sisters in Sisters, Oregon. My teacher, Kira Ryder, and her friend Kari Sims Anton, hosted a deeply meaningful retreat called Our Wild & Quiet Dharma. We hiked, we sat, we laughed, we cried,…
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A real shift has occurred. (The passive voice at once seems right and wrong. I know that the shifting didn’t occur completely on its own, but it feels just this-side of ego to say “I shifted something.” Maybe the most accurate happy-medium/ middle path would…
Continue reading Process is the Practice// Notes from the Ambrosial Hours
To me, right now, the point of practice is kindness compassion forgiveness (minor and profound) wide-open spacious togetherness love love love tenderness divine moments of truth-presence That’s my story. What’s yours? Why do you keep coming back to the practice?