May we recognize the light in the darkness. May we know and befriend our own shadow. May we be amused, with relief, at the grace allotted to us for our imperfections. May we draw wisdom from the ancestors. May we draw courage from those yet to be born....
Blessing # 3 May you begin each day with a curious mind and an open heart. May the end of the day find you with your integrity intact. May you recognize longing as the soul’s desire to evolve. May you value absurdity and the sacred in equal measure. May...
Embodied Blessing May you be blessed with the awareness of the gift of your life May you offer that gift in service in ways that love calls you. May you find peace in the pulse of your heart. May you know joy as your essence. May you awaken to...
May collective grief open our eyes, our minds and our hearts. May we find each other in this place of lament and gain comfort and connection. May our wounds be sacred offerings on the altar of transformation. May what rises from the ashes bless a new beginning. May our...
This world right now. This overwhelming, polarized, challenging world. Three Covid-19 deaths in Cambria County this week with an average of 5 new cases daily. My daughter began her sophomore year of college two weeks ago taking most of her classes online from her dorm room in Pittsburgh, 90...
It’s going to be a long night. The 4th of July is a loaded holiday at the time of this writing. It has never been one that I particularly care for. I find many holidays in general commercialized and steeped in stories and myth. The stories around...
Franciscan priest Richard Rohr calls the Liminal Space as the “in between space.” This space that exists between an event that is life altering in ways that is not yet comprehended, yet holds the awareness that life as we know it will forever be changed. I write this...
Community, what a week. Today has been one week plus of social distancing. I decided last Friday to cancel all in person classes immediately to be in line with the ethics of yoga, the foundation and root of the practice being one of non harming during this time of...
The global pandemic that is COVID-19 has upended the world. Everyone is impacted. Without exception. The flip side of the seriousness of this illness is growing awareness of how connected we really are on this planet in our one human family. A mere week ago, I was facilitating...
Intimacy and Trust. Two decades of marriage. My husband and I both had serious issues with trust when we met and married. We struggled greatly in our marriage around this and I can remember in the beginning of our marriage living with the certainty that I would be greatly...