I have been sprucing up this site bit by bit, line by line. It started because two of the podcasts I enjoy so much (Tranquility du Jour with Kimberly Wilson and Krista Tippett’s interview of Brene Brown on On Being) included words to the tune…
Continue reading words are words// stories and semantics
Things are simple. Things are complicated. Things are simple again. Yoga is much like a Mobius, I think. It has a way of turning back in on itself over and over again. Sometimes the body itself informs be about life. And sometimes life informs me…
Continue reading Liminal Space// Finding Meaning in Movements
Things have shifted. Externally, here. My child & I spend mornings apart now, since she began school last week. I know this is good for her. It is good for her. She shares her light with her own new world. I know this is good…
Continue reading Productivity// Losing and Finding Time
Last Monday, I was spiraling into an abyss of resistance. My husband is gone for a month of week-days, working most weekends and I had not had a moment to myself in ages. The refrain I sang throughout the day was “I need a break.”…
Continue reading When the Tire is Flat// Surrender and Change that Tire
These days, as I ready myself to sit, I gaze out the window of my studio at a tremendously tall Doug Fir tree about a block away. My part of town has lots of them, but this one commands my attention through each season, every…
Continue reading You Can’t Hurry Love/ Why Practice
Consider what glaciers have moved. Consider what glaciers have created and destroyed. There will be times when things move fast. I have learned to regard this as grace. Most of the time, however, things will move slowly. So slowly that you may forget that you…
Continue reading The Glacier’s Pace
When I teach, I’m learning. I’m working it out myself. It is my absolute wish and practice that the words that come out are born of the moment. This week, while talking about Metta/ Loving Kindness and radical forgiveness during community meditation at Heart Fire,…
Continue reading Knowing/ The Next Step Will Beckon You
By cultivating attitudes of friendliness toward those who are happy, compassion to those who are suffering, delight toward the virtuous and equanimity toward detractors, one’s thoughts are purified and the obstacles to self-realization are lessened. {Yoga Sutra 1.33} We are still working through Yoga Sutra…
Continue reading Objectivity, Compassion and Equanimity as Acts of Self-love
For the first time since my daughter was born (nearly 2 years ago), I have a habitual, formal meditation practice. This feels really good. Of course, I tend to think that parenting itself is my ultimate practice in mindfulness. And I was quite literally so…
Continue reading Still Sitting/ Sitting Still
Stillness is the result of devoted practice and non-attachment. {YS 1.12} Practice is the effort of remaining present. {YS 1.13} With continuous, devoted practice for a long time, the practice becomes firmly rooted. {YS 1.14} Abhyasa/Practice. As a girl and young woman, the notion of…
Continue reading Practice Makes a Practice. My Abhyasa (r)evolution.