I’ve just finished my slow journey through Peter Matthiessen’s The Snow Leopard. Over these past two months or so I’ve paused to put the book down so that I could savor for a while the imagery and the voice; I’ve gone back to re-read many different passages; reluctantly, reluctantly I came to the end just…
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One Month to Get It Done
In my new home town in Colorado I have started collaborating with a group of entrepreneurs on the idea of accomplishing important goals. Since this is such a broad and potentially overwhelming topic, we broke it down: Choose one goal that you can achieve in a month – and get it done. In shamanic work,…
Letting Go of Old Habits
“The Universe challenges you to see how much happiness you can take”, my friend Gail told me this week. Which was another way of looking at an idea that I have been contemplating in my yoga practice recently: “At the very heart of our practice” writes Rolf Gates, “we need one thing: a mature willingness…
On Holding and Being Held
This month I attended the annual Teachers Conference at Kripalu, the yoga and meditation center in the Berkshires. I arrived at the Albany airport and drove out to Stockbridge, feeling unexpectedly agitated, gloomy. Several years ago, when I was married and living in the Adirondacks, I used to fly in and out of Albany to…
Finding My Way in the Dark
Today I decided: I will do an entire practice with my eyes closed. I toppled over a lot. And even when I held the posture, even when I was physically still, in my head I was as disoriented as if I were tumbling and rolling upside down under the sea. Finally I just stood in…
Seeing Life The Way It Is
“These women seem to have such perfect, well-planned out lives – its almost intimidating,” commented a friend, after reading profiles I’d written for a Palm Beach lifestyle magazine of three women with unusual career trajectories. That got me thinking. Because not only are each of these women flawed and imperfect (as well as talented and…
Wake Up to Now
Asteya, Non Stealing. This morning I am practicing paying attention to this present moment. Suddenly my life has become incredibly full and busy, and without the slightest hesitation I have allowed my anxieties for the future to rob me of my connection to this present moment. Leaving in its place just a sense of breathless…
This Is Not A Test
It is tempting for me to see challenges on the personal or professional level as a kind of “test”, with the implication that the challenge is something that I could succeed at — or fail. Today in conversation with a good friend, I was reminded that love and work are not some kind of performance,…
Dark Journeys
Last night I led a group through the journey of Soul Retrieval. In a small cottage south of Miami — sliding doors opening to a garden of gravel pathways, overflowing bougainvillea and lush green trees and bushes, secret spaces to sit and rest — we practiced yoga for an hour and then my group settled…
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