Thank you Cavs! The epitome of yoga.

Two days ago the Cavs won the NBA championship against so many odds: starting the finals down 3 games, playing out of town, and Cleveland’s seemingly indomitable will to always…

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“Let go of the fruits”

“Let go of the fruits” is a significant theme in the Bhagavad Gita, one of the great yoga texts of all time and the current subject of the YR Book…

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Don’t worry be happy

The 1988 Bobby McFerrin song might as well have been about the niyama of santosha.  Review: the niyamas are one of the eight limbs of yoga laid out in the…

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Emptying Your Cup

There’s a well-known story about a Japanese Zen master.  A university professor interested in learning more about Zen comes to see him.  The master offers the professor tea, and as…

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Don’t just do something, sit there.

For some of us, sitting in stillness can be the most challenging part of practicing yoga.  Or of daily life.  I know it’s hard for me.  I often get stuck…

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50 days of meditation

My new years resolution for 2016 is 365 days of meditation.  I passed the 50 day mark this past weekend and thought it a good time to reflect.  I’ve been…

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Loving yourself into well-being

An unknown author said “You can’t punish yourself into change.  You can’t whip yourself into shape.  But you can love yourself into well-being.” Think about this idea applied to the…

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Getting to know your inner voice

Do you talk to yourself?  If you said no, you’re wrong.  We all do.  Maybe not out loud, but we all have an inner voice.  Sometimes it recounts our to-do…

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Designing Your Life

I just spent the weekend in a two-day Design Your Life Workshop put on by the Handel Group out of New York.  If there is an area in your life…

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Digging deep

This morning I took Cynthia Chylik’s power vinyasa class (and it rocked – thank you Cynthia!).  As we settled into child’s pose after a challenging standing sequence, she spoke to…

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