hi LOVES. I have a few new offerings beginning October 1st. Excited to be with you all. Mondays: 5pm community meditation at Shanti Om: FREE & open to all. I guide the group for a 15-20 minute sit– techniques change, but always reflect my personal…
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Blessed Ganesh Chaturthi!! Happy Birthday Ganesh! I have returned from traveling and am so happy to be back teaching. Here’s how to connect in class this week: Monday, September 9: 5pm meditation & 5:45pm mindful yoga at Shanti Om. (7334 N. Chicago Ave.) Thursday, September…
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Greetings of LOVE! This week, we can connect during the following public classes in Portland, Oregon: Monday, August 19:: Meditation at 5pm (all are welcome!) & Mindful Yoga at 5:45pm at Shanti Om Yoga **new addition** Tuesday, August 20:: Hatha Flow at 7am at The…
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Hi loves, I’m teaching a few extra classes over the next few weeks. Here’s where and when to find me this week. Monday, August 12-Shanti Om Yoga 5pm meditation (all are welcome) 5:45pm mindful yoga 7:15pm vinyasa flow Wednesday, August 14-Shanti Om Yoga 7:15pm Alignment…
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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…
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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…
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{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…
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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…
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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,…
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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