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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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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“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…
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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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Hi Sweet Family, SO happy to be back together with a sparkly new show for you! I’m just back from FOLLOW YOUR RISE, our retreat in the desert, and feeling so super-jazzed about our community and the work we are doing here. (In case you…
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Hello Dearest Ones! This episode features the seasonal check-in. I have found this type of reflection to be super-helpful in deepening the practice of self-study, or svadhyaya. Svadhyaya is one of the 3 pillars of practice as described by the Yoga Sutras, as well as…
Continue reading Samadhi Rush Episode 197// Seasonal Check-in
Hi Shining-Hearts, So happy to be here together. This week, I’m in California filming season 2 of Practical Magic (my yoga show on Yoga Anytime). EXCITED! Can’t wait to share. For this week’s podcast, I’m sharing my thoughts and intentions for practice this season. Fall…
Continue reading Samadhi Rush Episode 168// My Autumn Practice
chirp. sigh. roar. blue-gold-blazing coral. cedar & hemlock commingle under my hands. commercial flights begin their ebb and flow in earnest around 6am. for a time, this is their sky. once the initial flurry of their wings, beaks and spindly tucked-up legs has passed, the…
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Hello beloveds, For Episode 146 of Samadhi Rush, I am sharing my thoughts about my summer practice. If you’ve been reading my blog or listening to the podcast through a few season-changes, you may already know this, but I am deeply influenced by seasonal shifts.…
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In ayurveda, yoga’s sister science of health, fall is the time of vata. Vata is characterized by cold, dryness, light and changeablity. I am particularly susceptible to autumn. Wind-swept, dry, scattered, bare-boned. My prakrti (nature, in ayurveda-speak) tends toward Vata, the way of the wind, anyway;…
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