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…
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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…
Blue Sky
“Behind all hardening and tightening and rigidity of the heart, there’s always fear. But if you touch fear, behind fear there is a soft spot. And if you touch that soft spot, you find the vast blue sky. You find that which is ineffable, ungraspable, and unbiased, that which can support and awaken us at…
Going Down
Sometimes you just cannot respond with an open heart. Right? My father died recently, leaving my mother vulnerable and unsure. His death, or perhaps it is more his absence, has disturbed unspoken boundaries and unleashed pent up emotions and resentments among members of my extended family. It seems right to me to defend my mother,…
Playing to Your Weakness: Lessons from the Bhagavad-Gita
I am one of those people who love to take what business coaches refer to as “Assessments”. One recognized assessment known as DiSC pegs me as “Results Oriented”. The Myers Briggs Type Indicator, probably the most well known assessment out there, categorizes me as ENTJ – which, as one fellow coach reminded me, is the…
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