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
From an Instagram post I made 58 weeks ago when pandemic was young: 🌿My survival strategies: breathe, nature, allllllllll the immune-boosters, hand-washing (obvi), flower essences, kriya for the 10 bodies, metta meditation, extra dance parties, sewing, reading, cleaning the kitchen, frequent hugs from the people…
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Venus moved from fiery, initiative-oriented Aries into sensuous, sensual Taurus this week. I am here for this. Venus, you may recall, second planet from the Sun is our cosmic tuning fork for relationality and valuation within relationship. By observing Venus’ location, we have the opportunity…
Continue reading Annamaya is Anandamaya/ Rituals for Venus in Taurus
I write this the day after the mass shooting of the week, the week of yet another police murder of an unarmed Black man, the month of serial murders against Asian American women and countless acts of ongoing violence and oppression of people and beings…
Continue reading Solidarity, A Mantra
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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Night Vision One of our favorite picture books is Dahlov Ipcar’s “The Cat at Night.” The book follows a cat, whose people believe him to be fast asleep all night, on many adventures through the long, dark, wonderful night. Cats can see at night, and…
Continue reading Full Moon in Virgo Practices
“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
There is bravery and wisdom in following the light. This time of year, the sun begins to crawl away from my eyes around 2:30 in the afternoon, having never strayed too far from the southern horizon even at its highest point. With their departure, I…
Continue reading Notes from the Thinnest Veil
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