People tell me I help them. I like to hear that, of course, but the truth is, the people who say that to me (my yoga students, and more recently my Health Coaching clients) often help me ten times more that I help them. I am not being humble here. It's just a fact. Here's … Continue reading I Couldn’t Burn My Journals
Category: Gratitude
Strengthening the Love Container
People sometimes break down in yoga class. They fall apart. They shatter. It doesn't happen a lot, but it happens regularly enough so that I have to be prepared for it. When people shatter, it's usually because their "container" isn’t strong enough to hold whatever emotion detonated within them. They don’t see it coming. They … Continue reading Strengthening the Love Container
Another Trip Around The Sun
Yesterday was my 60th birthday, and I am here to report that after years of searching, I believe I may have finally hit upon a way of thinking about aging that doesn’t make my insides curdle, and find me staring at the ceiling in a cold sweat in the middle of the night. I think … Continue reading Another Trip Around The Sun
Starting Over
For a long time this blog has been a lie. When I started it back in 2009, its purpose, its founding intention, was to be a place where I’d report on inspiring people, places and ideas. I would live my life looking for such things and report my findings here, I said. And for quite … Continue reading Starting Over
Liebster Award
In case you've been wondering where I've been, I have de-camped over to Virtual Yogarians for the month of April. (Virtual Yogarians is a multi-user blog I set up for people to blog about how the April Yoga Challenge is going. I post there every day (from the seat of the teacher) but so do … Continue reading Liebster Award
How’s It Going?
I had to see my accountant today for the dreaded doing of the taxes. Hagar wears his hair in a gray crew cut, military-style, that, oddly enough, looks kinda cool on him. He does it stick-straight up like a newly sprouted lawn. After the initial handshake and how-di-do’s he says, "How's it going?" Now, when … Continue reading How’s It Going?
Dentils
My big adventure today was a visit to my periodontist. This ordeal usually begins with a long sit on my meditation cushion, followed by some inspirational reading like, The Places That Scare You, and absolute and total silence in the car on the 45 minute drive there as I practice mental nadi shodhana. I don't know … Continue reading Dentils
A Little Spring Meme
This afternoon I walked Boomer to the studio to check the mail and to see if anyone had slid Yoga Challenge money underneath the door. It is still weirdly warm, but it was cloudy and there were a few sprinkles as we walked. I could smell the ground. It smell like dirt and roots and … Continue reading A Little Spring Meme
The Bests
Every time I sit down here, I try to think of the standout moments in the day, good or bad. But mostly I look for the "Bests." What were the best moments of this day? My yoga practice this morning wasn't "the best"--it was hard and I was frustrated with my limitations and my weakness, … Continue reading The Bests
Where I Work
Sometimes people will ask me where I work. There is something about the word "work" that makes me recoil. "I don't really work." I'll say, "I teach yoga." But lately I've been thinking about that and it seems to me that I do "work" only it's not work in the "Omg, it's Monday and I … Continue reading Where I Work
