Awakening is the goal, awareness is the process, yoga is a tool…
How we habitually align our shoulders and hips has profound ramifications for overall health. Slouching forward with our shoulders for hours everyday puts a lot of strain on our neck and upper back, and overtime can result in chronic pain up and down the chain.
Continue readingWhen I have a peak spiritual experience, it’s challenging to not try to recreate it. I can’t cross the same river twice, so it never works.
Continue readinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKOexGhiEdc&t
Frustrated with your attempts to cure your insomnia with meditation? I realized that the frustration itself was keeping me awake! I also realized that if I could relax into being just 10% calmer (versus frustrated the I still wasn’t asleep!), that I’d sink 10% deeper, then 10% more… Eventually, I was 30% closer… Melting slowly. Melting slowly to sleep. If nothing else, melting, relaxing is a restful practice.
Hello Beautiful Souls, I’m on a pilgrimage in Cathar Country, southern France for three months, and I’ve decided to share a few yoga videos.
Continue readingThings feel pretty chaotic to me, and practicing meditation would help. But I’m having a hard time motivating myself to sit for more than a few minutes. (Sit, stand, walk, move, whatever.) I just knocked off balance, and if I’d been practicing regularly, even for 10 minutes a day, I would have been able to stay more centered. Lesson re-learned: when things are getting hairy, pay attention to that inner voice that says, “You need to start meditating a bit everyday!” I didn’t, and now I’m regretting it. No time like the present to heed my own advice!
Continue readingGuided Meditation Recording (8m10s)
As social animals, giving and receiving are a daily part of life. We need each other for mental, emotional and physical support – on a daily basis, and those needs can sometimes be challenging to have and support. Often times we develop habits where one is easier than the other. Many of us are better at giving and others are better at receiving. It’s not so often that we feel equally comfortable with both. And that can change depending on the people we’re with and situations we’re in. Sometimes it just feels easier to do one and not the other.
Continue readingGuided Meditation Recordings (8m & 5m)
Field of Vision is a practice I was first taught by a dear friend who practices Tibetan Buddhism. I’ve simplified it a bit and turned it into a mindfulness practice.
I adore this practice. If you like eyes open practices, or want to experience one this is a great one to play with. And you’re welcome to do just that, play with it and make it your own.
Continue reading(14 min Guided Meditation Recording)
This meditation is adapted a Will Johnson practice he calls The Breath of the Unfolding Fern. You can listen to the entire Urban Retreat, and enjoy his magnificent teachings here: https://www.embodiment.net/audios. As he says, it is a very “deeply body-oriented approach to sitting meditation.” I love it.
Continue readingYour lymphatic system, an important part of your immune system, is passive, meaning that it does not move itself.
Instead, it moves when you do. That also means that if you aren’t moving it isn’t either.
A challenge I’m giving myself in these times that encourage taking on challenges…
If we care to look, there are a lot of different opinions about what’s happening in the world, on all kinds of topics, from health to politics, economy to environment.
And when I listen to someone I don’t agree with I give myself this challenge:
Can I understand where this person is coming from?
