I am sitting on a really long post about the Encinitas- Establishment Clause case. The perfect place for my worlds of yoga and law to mingle, yet I am almost physically-incapable of pressing the “publish” button. Resistance. Feel it. I feel it in my chest…
Continue reading Enter Resistance
The fog I’ve been roaming around in for the past few months appears to be lifting. I feel lightness again in my skin and teeth and fingernails. The sludgy, un-ruddered feeling is so nearby though, that I am using this prescient moment to remind myself…
Continue reading Clarity// Integration takes time
Last Monday, I was spiraling into an abyss of resistance. My husband is gone for a month of week-days, working most weekends and I had not had a moment to myself in ages. The refrain I sang throughout the day was “I need a break.”…
Continue reading When the Tire is Flat// Surrender and Change that Tire
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
By cultivating attitudes of friendliness toward those who are happy, compassion to those who are suffering, delight toward the virtuous and equanimity toward detractors, one’s thoughts are purified and the obstacles to self-realization are lessened. {Yoga Sutra 1.33} We are still working through Yoga Sutra…
Continue reading Objectivity, Compassion and Equanimity as Acts of Self-love
When the student is ready, the teacher appears. The teacher rarely takes the form we imagine it will/should/does for everyone else. We must have alert senses to recognize the teacher when it arrives. The teacher for me right now is Yoga Sutra 1.33. We have…
Continue reading The Yoga of Relationship/ Seeing Yourself in Others