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,…
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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…
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….
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….
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