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…
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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…
What is God’s will for a Wing?
From today forward we move into the light. For the next 6 months, darkness diminishes, and the light increases. It is a good moment to think about what enhances our own light, pulls us out of any dark places we may have wandered into, draws us back into our own strength, wholeness, and natural brilliance….
Daring Greatly
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who…
Re-Discovering the Tender Heart
“Progress in the practice of yoga postures de-ages us, peeling away the years.” – Rolph Gates. This is not, first and foremost, about looking younger. Although that happens too. In Meditations from the Mat, Gates reflects on his transformation, through yoga, from a heavily muscled soldier and body-builder, to a leaner, more pared down practitioner…
Coming into Balance
Satya. Putting Satya, or truthfulness, into practice is an exercise in humility. But humility has two sides: most of us have been told at one time or another “don’t get too big for your britches,” and we know exactly what that means. Humility is about letting go of the good results as well as bad….
Do No Harm
Ahimsa. A woman I know told me her friends often complimented her on the fact that she had decided not to color her greying hair. How courageous of you!, they said. She told me it had taken some time to allow herself to do this, she wasn’t sure she liked the grey, the way it…
Life. And Death. And Yoga.
The arc of a yoga practice is like the progression of a day, or of a lifetime. I feel this in my practice this morning. With opportunities to stretch and explore, to test your strength, to blunder and try again. To search for balance, and to surrender notions of control. Releasing through breath and movement…
Who’s Got Your Back?
These past five years have been a roller coaster ride on the career front for many of us. Maybe you still feel that you are on the terrifying plunge downward – or perhaps you are on the upward trajectory at last, sighing with relief. Does this crazy ride sound familiar? If so, who have you turned…
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