I love non fiction. It makes me feel smarter, informed, and if knowledge is power, then powerful too. I love the active feeling of learning, of feeling like I’m a better person for having read the thing. And for a long time, I only felt that way about non-fiction, and maybe biography/memoirs. My own inner […]
I know I’m in trouble when I start getting sick, particularly getting sick with weird little things. I am pretty in tune with my body and when I get tired, my nose runs. It’s like somewhere in the early part of my existence my brain noticed that I would lay down and rest when my […]
(To listen to this instead, click here) There are two times of year that feel big and bold to me, January and early September. Both are completely cultural time markers with either the happy new year party horns seeming to ring in my ears and urge me on to wild resolutions, or the back-to-school reminders […]
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 […]
Time is a funny thing. The other day someone was stunned to find out I started yoga well over 30 years ago. Honestly, I started pretty young, but I’m stunned too. And then in talking to someone from my teacher training, we couldn’t remember how many years ago that was… I blame recent events because […]
My take is that the goal is to honor the day with a powerful meditation. The more repetitive a thing is, the more likely we are able to turn off the focus on what the physical body is doing and get to a meditative space. So do 108 of SOMETHING.