Sivasana: quiet bliss or gentle guidance?

Going to someone else’s class was the best thing I’ve done in a long time.  So nourishing. Can’t replace home practice, but I’ve been missing out by not supplementing. My partner (work… I’ll always call my husband my husband) was telling me my tank was on empty and my dan tien (sp?) was low – he’s [...]

ahhhh!

One of the reasons to take a class, is to get the teacher’s voice & rhythms & attitude in your head.  I’ve been taking my own class from myself for months now, sort of my way of letting my own voice settle in. I sometimes do podcast classes for inspiration, but usually shut them off [...]

every day?

Well, yes that’s the plan. So there’s this whole thing in the spiritual disciplines about not having expectations in order to let things be as they are and not over interpret them. Of course, the struggle is caused by the fact that in order to be transparent enough to yourself to be relatively expectation free, [...]

Beauty

Thank you. Thank you to this space, the people who make it possible and to this community of writers. Becoming a little part of this has helped me remeber that all the diverse moments, experiences, interactions are part of a whole fabric, and this makes each one of them more beautiful.
Meaning seems to grow from [...]

Truth

We are one another’s mirrors. The depth of Spirit expressed through our looking is dependent on the quality of our gaze. This is how Spirit depends on each of us: to see (and enjoy!) Itself. Spirit just is the mutual gaze raised to the level of awareness.

Truth

The struggle to maintain equanimity throughout all seemingly opposing forces (life!) is easier to witness with a little bit of asana practice sprinkled in every day.

This cycle begins with Love

If love is the unnameable encompassing which allows opposites to co-exist and mutual others to be aware of their sameness, then love is what I seek, and love is what I find.
My life is held taught by opposites, and the truth is that it’s begun to wear me out.  But the other truth is that [...]

Beauty

Sometimes it’s just so simple, isn’t it? You show up, you move, you breathe, you’re aware of your breath.
Today, teaching. So it’s so easy to find beauty. My students amaze and open my heart in their dedication, their clarity their openness. It’s such an amazing gift to witness their movement, their changes over time, their [...]

Love

Wow. Must’ve been channelling cat, because I coughed up a hairball yesterday.  Funny as my family is my husband and our four dogs  from whom I learned love in all its soft vulnerability, fierce tenderness, raw true presence and daring.   
Truth: I, like many of you, have at least two very disparate ways of interacting with the world. [...]

Truth.

Here’s truth, in trust that love & beauty follow where it goes. My personal practice isn’t what I think a yoga teacher’s should be. Here’s some more truth: I’m a yoga teacher with a crappy home practice.
Here’s what I think it should be: every day, vigorous, peaceful, priority, full of poses I’m working on or [...]