What is the Point of Contemplative Practice?

What is the point of contemplative practice? *Note that these all require participation. Contemplation is not passive.   According to The Center for the Contemplative Mind in Society “Contemplative practices are […]

Chant: Find Your Voice in Community

Chant for Healing

Chant: Find Your Voice in Community! Chanting, repeating a phrase melodically and rhythmically, is a simple way to engage in music without joining a choir or group. Chanting is something […]

MLK Day – Non-Violence & Yoga

Love Love is gravity, the primordial force of bonding that drives the ongoing  creation of the universe. Our liberation is bound together by natural and spiritual truths. Today, on the […]

Sankalpa: Intentions & The New Year

Metal art sculptures of silhouettes in a field

Sankalpa- Connecting to the Deepest Desire of Your Heart   My Realization of the Power of Intention Ten years ago I had the job I believed I would do for […]

Morning in Kathmandu: Peace & Devotion

Morning in Kathmandu     We rose before dawn. Roosters crowed and cows mooed as we walked in the brisk morning air through the green walled streets of Budhalinkantha. The […]

Letting Go -Aparagraha- A Practice for Autumn

Letting Go – Aparagraha – A Practice for Autumn.   Often, I find myself carrying constriction/tightness/tension in my body for no apparent reason. It could be the mid to high […]

Blessing For Those Tender of Heart

Blessings For Those Tender of Heart. You of tender hearts who by now ought to have grown weary of  loud voices and the pandering of cynics and self-appointed leaders. Perhaps […]

The Power of Ritual

On a perfect late summer evening, spread out on the grass on all sides of the pavilion, people stood in clusters carefully opening the envelopes that held painted lady butterflies. […]

Sinead

    The Voice. Her voice. Raw. Unfiltered. What did you feel when you first heard this voice? I heard the ancestral cry of Irishwomen. I heard the sound of […]