I just finished reading and guiding “Stop Overthinking” as the Book to Body book of the month for September and one thing really stuck with me. The book itself offers a wide array of tools pulled from many disciplines. The one lingering for me is the Eisenhower Matrix. In the online space there are 5.7 […]
The power of accomplishment is real. That sense of completion is powerful, it can land as relief, joy, spaciousness and a million other things – yet all offer a rush of feelings. And lately I’ve been wondering if perhaps we’re all a little addicted to it. I love to check an item off my to do list and recently my lists got very overwhelming. It happens to us all, even when we’re deep in things we love doing it is still “doing” all the things in a finite amount of time.
I am afraid of a few things. Snakes for sure. Failure for sure. And most recently I realized I have spent much of my life desperately afraid of forgetting things. I’m knee deep (and 26 days in) to my “100 Items” challenge and while there has been a fair amount of stuff moving out of my life, it is hard to ignore the prevalence of things I’ve kept as markers of memories.
I recently led a thought session on nonattachment (or nonexcess), a common translation for aparigraha which is the fifth yama. The yamas are the first step of yoga (the shapes you may think of as yoga are the third of the eight steps) and are yoga philosophy’s first five guideposts for living. Yama translates as […]
On November first, while everyone else was perhaps recovering from their Halloween sugar rush, I came in overjoyed and announced to my 8:30am yoga class that we had finally arrived in my favorite month of the year. A curious “why?” was the response and my answer is easy. I love November because Thanksgiving isn’t commercialized […]
I went to a virtual new moon circle tonight. There was nothing really wrong with it, and there was equally nothing really extraordinary about it. The internet was splotchy, it wasn’t really interactive, I didn’t feel like I had everything I needed, and I spilled my tea right as it started. Twice. I quickly decided […]
I have always been fascinated by sparklers. It’s clear at a glance they have explosive energy, bits of light and specks of fie radiating in all directions – not at all the calm steady burn of a candles flame. And yet that display of raw energy poses virtually no threat and I can safely watch it burn, hold it just inches from my body, with no fear. I’m still captivated by the fire you can hold.