Since the pandemic began, I’ve been writing these blessings for us all. First, I shared them on Instagram, but since I am on an indefinite (or perhaps infinite) hiatus from posting on social media, they have been for the eyes of my weekly newsletter subscribers…
Continue reading Compassion Infusion// A Blessing
The place where I teach yoga from home is my bedroom. Standing on my mat, I look east, and beyond the Douglas Fir who keeps time for the neighborhood, beyond the array of arborvitae and cedar trees in the mid-ground, beyond Rocky Butte, my eyes…
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Equinox Tomorrow day and night have equal weight, equal balance in the sky. What would it be like to tend equally to all of the layers of ourselves? Capitalist culture prioritizes our working lives and overtly “productive” facets of work at that, but what happens…
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I wanted to write from the amorphous abyss of the unknown, because this is the realm of Yoga. And so, here I write. From the early morning, waning moon darkness of the day following Election Day. I write from the very bottom of the exhalation…
Continue reading Honoring the Exquisiteness of this Effort
My vision in creating the space for (and even in just naming) Future Blessings is to come together and create something for our children, their children, their children and beyond, through yoga. The principles that are guiding me in this work are: collaboration & interdependence…
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after a late-winter dive into the deepest Piscean emotion ocean, i am up for air. and attending to a death of an old self. somewhere in my psyche, my samskaric battling armor, i acquired things that all of a sudden after all this time* had…
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or the painting is on its own path. or our karmas are intertwined. I’m enrolled in a writing class at our local university this term. It’s a basic composition class, very similar to a writing class my first year of college nearly twenty-three years ago.…
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“There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen For what may pop or tumble down or splinter. The light itself, as active as a painter, Swashes bright flowing banners down The flat white walls. I stand here like…
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Let’s check-in: How are your summer practice goals and intentions going? What self-care systems have you been leaning into? I have a confession: my plans for summer have taken a completely different turn, but it is turning out to be a huge learning and growing…
Continue reading Self-Care Tune-Up/ Learning from a Summer Cold
Dear Community, This next post began as a newsletter. I sent it out to my email list the other day. The outpouring of support that I have received from our yoga family here made me realize that I should probably share it here, publicly, as…
Continue reading Using Your Voice// What You Say Matters