“What you are first able to write on the page, whether the writing comes easily or with difficulty, is not likely to be close to a finished poem.” (Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook, 109). For me, making the first mark on the page is not…
Continue reading Looping Back// Mercury Retrograde Re-Visioning
Hi Sweeties! It is time for our seasonal check-in podcast! Talking about the lessons of the previous season and the goals and inspiration for the new season. I LOVE the conversations that theses podcasts spark. SHARE YOUR STORY! What were the challenges and gifts of…
Continue reading Samadhi Rush Episode 189// Seasonal Check-In
Hi lovers, SO happy to be back together today. We’ll resume our work with desire next week. This week, we’re talking about the 8 limbs of yoga as described by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras. If this is interesting to you, please join us for…
Continue reading Samadhi Rush Episode 185// The 8 Limbs of Yoga
Sweet beloveds, I am so happy we are here together today. This episode is all about dropping deeper into your own practice. As I mentioned in episode 146 of Samadhi Rush, this is my season for practice (abhyasa, in yoga-talk), and here I talk about…
Continue reading Samadhi Rush Episode 150// Taking Your Yoga Practice To The Next Level
One of my dreams as a yoga teacher has always been to devote an entire class to teaching practices other than asana. (Asanas are the shapes we make with our bodies in yoga classes.) Asana is amazing and transformative, but it’s not the whole enchilada.…
Continue reading Whole Yoga// The Other 7 Limbs
I’m reading David Foster Wallace’s brilliant Infinite Jest right now (although right now means for the past two years on Thursday, but if you’ve immersed yourself in this book, you’ll know that it takes awhile). On every page there are so many words and concepts…
Continue reading Jnana// Embodied Knowing
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.…
Continue reading Love// A Prayer
To me, right now, the point of practice is kindness compassion forgiveness (minor and profound) wide-open spacious togetherness love love love tenderness divine moments of truth-presence That’s my story. What’s yours? Why do you keep coming back to the practice?
As the practice takes shape and as things (necessarily?) start to happen, we might wonder what the point of all of this is anyway. Probably this arises over and over. At least it has for me. In those spaces where the technique falls away, and…
Continue reading Tasting the Nectar// The Point of All of This
Things are simple. Things are complicated. Things are simple again. Yoga is much like a Mobius, I think. It has a way of turning back in on itself over and over again. Sometimes the body itself informs be about life. And sometimes life informs me…
Continue reading Liminal Space// Finding Meaning in Movements