Invitations have gone out, weeks ago. Ads enticing ticket buyers to attend the Annual Event are appearing on radio and in the newspaper. Posters are pinned up all over town. Everyone has an opinion about the details and execution of such an important party. Some jump in to help, others to point out how they…
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How I Lost My Yoga-Cool (And Got it Back Again)
Years ago, I worked as an executive in New York City. For most of my professional life I comfortably defined myself by that experience. Some years later I moved to Florida, but continued to work as a consultant for a New York firm. Then the housing market crashed, the economy tanked, and my life built…
The Seventh Yoga Sutra
The sources of right knowledge are direct perception, inference, and authoritative testimony. How can we understand things more clearly and make better decisions? Patanjali outlines the three reliable means for gaining information about Life and about The Self. They are: DIRECT PERCEPTION: Or, experience is the best teacher. But beware of the dreaded “mental modifications”,…
Do Not Be Amazed by the True Dragon
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…
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…
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