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...
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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...
I live with this ever present ache of love for life. Sometimes this ache finds its expression in sharing practices of affirming worth and value that we might call yoga or meditation. Sometimes this ache finds an outlet in a long hug. Often in Song. In Writing. Conversations with...
It is the evening after my 53rd Birthday. It is as the German poet Rilke says, “ a strange and wonderful thing to be here.” I am grateful for the spaciousness that has most likely arisen from years of meditation that allows me to live in open mouthed wonder...
The trees are full and abundant. The wind sings through the rustling leaves. The hum and harmonics of the insect world create their own symphony as the sun takes its gentle time receding. Couple this with the enthusiastic sounds of kids on bikes and skateboards, throwing and bouncing balls,...
I am an insatiable learner. I don’t do memes or news bites. I have to read articles, do research and listen to really good investigative journalism like Joshua Johnson on NPR’s 1A, go deep with the spiritual inquiry offered by Rev angel Kyodo Williams, Adrianne Maree Brown and other...
I am here for all of it. I am here for sunshine and blue skies. I am here for wind, hail, rain and even sleet. I am here for when there is resolution. I am here for when there are words left unsaid. I am here for birth. New...
What does Suffering mean to you? Leesa Renee Hall is an author on Patreon I subscribe to for writing prompts. I love this discipline of using prompts and I write every morning and evening either with one of her prompts or with whatever chatter is consuming my mind and...
The sky at dawn has this tentative light that emerges. In the mid day sky, clouds often appear white or wispy Gray. At dawn and dusk, they emerge as these dark impressions on this vast canvas of light that is the sky. I marvel at this often. And now,...