I teach what I’m in at the moment. This has always been the case. I know no other way. When I’m through it, I’m through it; the material is stale. What once was like absolutely profound could be a total “bit” if I…
Continue reading I Can’t Go Back// Notes on Process
OM. All of life’s smells met me as I pedaled home. Twilight smells of coolness and dish-washing, ordinarily. But tonight, I smelled all the last-suppers, my grandparents’ country club, rose perfume, and a pail of dirty diapers. And this conglomeration of life somehow spoke…
Continue reading A collection of thoughts on the barely-waxing moon// An Ode to Shiva
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
What I need to tell you right now is… that this space is a collection of my ruminations on my own practice. A snap-shot of this space in time. My teaching is always ever evolving with my practice. I think that if a teacher is…
Continue reading feeling for the edges of the container// i am here for now
I have been sprucing up this site bit by bit, line by line. It started because two of the podcasts I enjoy so much (Tranquility du Jour with Kimberly Wilson and Krista Tippett’s interview of Brene Brown on On Being) included words to the tune…
Continue reading words are words// stories and semantics
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
In my in-real-life classes, we have meandered our way through the limbs of yoga as described by Patanjali to arrive at Dhyana/Meditation/Contemplation. Dhyana. We have to come out of something to know we’ve been in it. The realization. The thought. The spark of awareness inevitably…
Continue reading It’s All Good// In and Out of Concentration
This post has been sitting in my queue for over a month now. I began to write it when I was in the throes of vata-imbalance. Vata is one of the Doshas (constitutions) of Ayurveda (the ancient science of health). Vata is associated with dryness,…
Continue reading An Ayurvedic Approach to Fall// Softening Vata