Group Meditation

Have you ever meditated with others? Perhaps it was with your beloved, with family and friends at a religious ceremoy, or at Satsang. I highly recommend it!
My husband and I meditate together whenever opportunity presents. Tonight we attended a group meditation at YogaNow, here in Albuquerque.
I won’t try to describe the experience, because, well, it [...]

Perfect in the moment….

What if “Perfect” = “present in the moment & unjudged”?

Attention & Intention

What you attend to, you transform.
What qualities does your attention possess? Is it intense, relaxed (how do your eyes feel? your tongue? your hands?), curious, open? Do you have words in your mind right now? Are they coming from that to which you’ve surrendered your attention?
What state is body in? Are you in motion? Are [...]

“Radical Acceptance”

Yesterday’s post has certainly generated some reactions. My central idea is simply that while emotions sometimes call us to honor specific stories, they always connect us to our basic humanity. After we let the story go, we are in a position to be present with the emotion in the moment, each moment.
Last night while listening [...]

The Yoga of Broken Heartedness

Today I feel heartbroken and alone. And this mood helps me recognize things about my humanity and connection to others – who paradoxically seem so remote.
There is no real reason: my heart has not recently been broken by circumstance, death or love. I have my three adorable dogs and my husband at work.
Outside this window,the [...]

Yoga Nidra

Guided Relaxation including Yoga Nidra
Here is my holiday gift to all of you, available for your pre-holiday stress relief and practice.
Yoga Nidra is an ancient technique sometimes called yogic sleep. It is said that 20 minutes of yogic sleep is as good as three hours of your normal sleep. Now, my sleep isn’t so normal, so [...]

A proposal for practice: personal asana questions

Today I’ve been making my next year’s date book. You see, after falling while rollerblading yesterday, my left thigh is swollen by at least three inches in the back, warm, bruised, taught. Pretty sure I jacked something. So, I’m taking it easy… no Pigeon pose for me today! I was surprised at how much I [...]

Memed again!

When I started blogging, I wondered what this meme thing was… I mean, a meme is a theme, etymologically related to memory… don’t all essays have themes and rely on memory? And then came Moonymaid  and I no longer wonder! 
It turns out memes can be pretty random and not essentially theme related lists of questions. Of course [...]

Gracias!

This Thanksgiving was so much about ease and gratitude for me and my gorgeous man and our dirty but happy dogs. Nothing spactacular happened. Nothing. There was a fire out back, coffee and pie for breakfast, gorgeous man made gravy, I stuffed the turkey with rosemary sprigs from the garden, dogs snuggled and wrestled, rollerblading [...]

Asana & Self

Enough to love. Enough self to love and feel love. What kind of self is that?
Perhaps that is what the asana teach us. As we engage in any given practice we model our bodies after a series of animals, plants, planets, archetypes. Ideally we fully inhabit each one and move on to fully inhabit the [...]