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…
Continue reading A Study in Sight// Letting Each Other Find What We Need
Hello beloveds, Today, a sweetly spacious conversation with Renee Sills. We gathered in my living room last week and shared a discussion about the evolution of her practice, becoming an authentic teacher and the point of yoga over a cup of tea. My hope is to…
Continue reading Episode 109// Renee Sills– Illuminations on Practice
My loves, In September, I’m leading a retreat in northern Minnesota. I am so excited! For those of you who are joining us (you can still sign up here) or anyone preparing for a retreat, I thought it might be helpful to share a few…
Continue reading What to Pack for a Yoga Retreat
I just returned from a sweet weekend in community with some yogini sisters in Sisters, Oregon. My teacher, Kira Ryder, and her friend Kari Sims Anton, hosted a deeply meaningful retreat called Our Wild & Quiet Dharma. We hiked, we sat, we laughed, we cried,…
Continue reading The Magic of Retreat//
A real shift has occurred. (The passive voice at once seems right and wrong. I know that the shifting didn’t occur completely on its own, but it feels just this-side of ego to say “I shifted something.” Maybe the most accurate happy-medium/ middle path would…
Continue reading Process is the Practice// Notes from the Ambrosial Hours
These days, as I ready myself to sit, I gaze out the window of my studio at a tremendously tall Doug Fir tree about a block away. My part of town has lots of them, but this one commands my attention through each season, every…
Continue reading You Can’t Hurry Love/ Why Practice
{This is the beginning of a series of posts distilling a conversation I have been having with and listening to in the contemplative community.} When I’m giving answers rather than asking questions, my opportunity to grow diminishes. I just scrapped a post I was…
Continue reading Dogma is Boring
Consider what glaciers have moved. Consider what glaciers have created and destroyed. There will be times when things move fast. I have learned to regard this as grace. Most of the time, however, things will move slowly. So slowly that you may forget that you…
Continue reading The Glacier’s Pace
In yoga, we often talk of the razor’s edge– the precipice– that the yogi treads. What is the edge? What lies on the other side of it? Which side is real? Is there a real side? Which side is the illusion? Which side am I treading or…
Continue reading The Precipice
When I teach, I’m learning. I’m working it out myself. It is my absolute wish and practice that the words that come out are born of the moment. This week, while talking about Metta/ Loving Kindness and radical forgiveness during community meditation at Heart Fire,…
Continue reading Knowing/ The Next Step Will Beckon You