Yoga & The Third Way
Yoga & The Third Way How do we show up when everything in the world is fragmented and burning? Why do we continue to respond to harm with inflicting greater […]
We Are All Just Walking Each Other Home
We Are All Just Walking Each Other Home. Music for the Journey I enter into the dimly light room. The patient is curled up in the fetal position, his breath […]
Everything is Broken. Everything is Beautiful.
Everything is Broken. Everything is Beautiful. (Susan Cain) Sitting in the spaciousness of brokenness and beauty. Brokenness is everywhere. Gaza. Sudan Democratic Republic of the Congo Political Polarization. Our world […]
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
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 […]
Facing Impermanence? Choose Love Anyway.
Observing the breath, the muscles in the face, the brow, and the jaw, as well as the hands – are they clenched in fists or slightly open? There is so […]
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 […]
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. […]
Collective Wellness: Devotions for These Times
The roof of my mouth is sore. My nostrils and eyes both burn and there is a slight ache in my throat. The wildfires that continue to burn in Canada […]
5 Practices to Open Your Heart
Yesterday in our Yoga Class Curator Pilgrimage & Puja Community Practice, founder and teacher Susanna Barkataki led us in an inquiry around devotion. She referenced Yoga Sutra 1:39: Meditating on that which is […]
