Relaxing with, rather than resisting what is helps us understand that we can turn challenging, difficult moments into opportunities for profound change. This looks like not immediately reacting when something or someone triggers us. In that pause, there is the [...]
A very dear friend of mine explained to me this week, that she’d come to the realization that each of us is on our own path. I saw her point; felt like that made a lot of sense; and so [...]
A few in our community recently made the choice to commit to a 40 day program with “Personal Revolution” as part of its title. This begs the question - Why a personal revolution? Why change? In a word: Joy. It [...]
I recently heard a Buddhist Teacher confess that it is much easier for him to talk about suffering than happiness. His theory as to why: suffering is universal and we feel relief hearing we are not alone in it, but [...]
You may have noticed by now that life continually offers you experiences for growth. These can be big like a relationship change, new job, illness, a move. Or they can be small - you’re running late, someone cut you off [...]
I recently watched a film wherein an older man and teenage boy had to survive in the bush of New Zealand. At one point the man (who said very little) turned to the boy and said, “If we get separated, [...]
Eckhart Tolle offers this invitation in each book and lecture: Be here, in the present, where your life is happening. If we are anywhere else we’re missing it. Or we’re spending time in the past or the future, places that [...]
What would your life be like if you had everything you wanted? If there was no wishing or yearning for something more - what you wanted was right before you. If this seems impossible or far off, it isn’t. The [...]
We often get impatient for things to pass - a day, a season, a conversation, a time of life, a yoga class. If we’re always anticipating getting through it, we miss the whole experience. We’re physically in one place but [...]
Two very separate ideas have collided in a beautiful way for me recently. The first is Abundance. The second is non-hoarding, the fifth moral restraint of yoga. The first has been a repeated conversation topic with family and friends. The [...]