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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
A Monday morning act of kindness
Monday is a long work day for me this week. So I was jonesing for some caffeine when I pulled up to the Starbucks drive through. I ordered my venti…
Spirituality in South Beach?
For the past twelve years or so my husband and I have gone to South Beach in Miami at least a couple of times a year. It’s our place to…
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…
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…
On Being A Tree
Many years ago my then-boyfriend (now husband) asked me to do something one evening, to which I replied “I’ll try.” “Don’t try,” he said. “Be a tree.” Huh? I looked…