an invitation to practice, co-create & transform WHAT ARE FUTURE BLESSINGS? Future Blessings is/are a response to reactionary, myopic systems that fail to see beyond the short-term wants of an individual. It’s a framework for coming together to do long-term planning and long-term practice. it’s…
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There are so many things I can write about sound and meditation practices, but that would keep them confined to the realm of the mental: the realm where the mind convinces us that by consuming information “about” a practice, we “know” all there is to…
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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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This is a 60-minute hatha class focusing on the shoulders, lower back and core. We move toward a therapeutic head-stand. Thank you for being here. Beloved you, One of the hardest lessons for me to learn/ know in my bones: just because I can do…
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This morning, like most, I sat with the rising sun. We see her rise later now. 5am is so much darker, though so much warmer, now than it was a month ago. Even in silent stillness, the world is alive. The world moves. The universe…
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OM. All of life’s smells met me as I pedaled home. Twilight smells of coolness and dish-washing, ordinarily. But tonight, I smelled all the last-suppers, my grandparents’ country club, rose perfume, and a pail of dirty diapers. And this conglomeration of life somehow spoke…
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There is always space. There is always s p a c e . In every beat. In every breath. Out on the edge of the vastness. The embrace of our own heart is a beginning. A tender and magical beginning. Safety. Sorted-ness. These already are.…
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Singing is something that just feels good to me. No matter what it is, I am moved by song. In my morning classes, we begin by singing some campy or folky song about the morning, without regard for whether it sounds “good” or any nonsense…
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Before I became a mother, my greatest teachers were parallel parking downtown, the moments I realized I would be late for something and that sensation just before I knew someone was taking advantage of me. Those are still great teachers, but motherhood has been…
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc6FxW6S-sw] I am a mantra-lover, and Lakshmi Mantra is one of my favorites. Blessings, K. OM Shreem Mahalakshmiyei Namaha.