09/07/2012
Adding Meditation to Your Life
“The sacrifices of a family are like those of any demanding monastery, offering exactly the same training in renunciation, patience, steadiness, and generosity.” Jack Kornfield You’ve been practicing...
“The sacrifices of a family are like those of any demanding monastery, offering exactly the same training in renunciation, patience, steadiness, and generosity.” Jack Kornfield You’ve been practicing...
September is back to school and also Yoga Awareness month. You may have experienced the amazing benefits of practicing yoga or perhaps you have read how scientists now conclude that yoga improves overall...
In 28 years of study and teaching yoga I have come to honor the broken places in our minds, bodies, and spirits. It is through consistent and effective practice that we can mend these places and evolve...
Curious as to the practice of yoga, a young woman orders The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga and has her life shifted in a new direction.
Six years were to pass before my next yoga class. Long years of study, practice, and experiment in theatre, dance and design. By this time I had moved between Continents living in Europe, traveling through...
I had no idea that choosing the path of yoga (or was it that yoga chose me?), would alienate me from my family more severely than if I had moved to a foreign country. In 1983 the Born Again Christian movement...
One warm day, two years after her disappearance, Netty showed up on my doorstep. I handed her the keys to my huge, gas guzzling Chevy Malibu and flew off to the Caribbean islands as she drove north to...
It was now the mid ’80′s, there was the burgeoning gym life, Jane Fonda was everywhere, and the waft of some mysterious yoga practice was emanating from California to our eastern shores. During...
To create a peaceful family requires patience and tolerance mixed with a good dose of love, generosity and a sense of humor. Not necessarily an easy combination to maintain when the individuals are your...
Stepping onto the eight limb path of yoga reveals more that one might expect as we confront the self and our mental afflictions.