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.…
Continue reading Samadhi Rush Episode 146// My Summer Practice
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;…
Continue reading Contraction// Yoga for All Seasons
Let me be clear: I might not be the teacher for you. I won’t tell you what to do. I won’t micro-manage your experience. I won’t push you to “nail” a pose. Because your practice is so much more than a shape. Your practice is your life.…
Continue reading I Am This Way On Purpose// You Are Your Own Medicine, My Teaching Manifesto
Oh dearest stars, I have missed you. My family and I have landed safely in our nest in Portland after a month of travel through Southeast Asia. We are trying to be patient as our bodies reconnect with the appropriate time-zone (2am wake-ups are brutal!). We…
Continue reading There’s Beauty in the Breakdown// The Yoga of Travel
Beloveds, I’m unpacking from a magical trip to the Northwoods of Minnesota for Truly North Retreat and reflecting on this experience. For the last few (or five) years, I have included “lead a yoga retreat” on my list of intentions for the year, but somehow…
Continue reading Being There// What I Learned Leading My First Yoga Retreat
Beloveds, I write to you on the precipice of so much movement: a trip to Minnesota this week to lead a delicious retreat in the North Woods followed by a month-long adventure in Southeast Asia. Amid the movement is a center of stillness and receptivity…
Continue reading Heartbeats// Holding Space for Each Other
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
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
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