The Great Turning & The Stories of These Times
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The Great Turning & The Stories of These Times. My heart hurts many days. In my heart exists a grief so vast and wide for all of us. Other times, […]
Yoga & The Third Way
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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
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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.
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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 […]
Music is Medicine
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Music is Medicine It is both so simple and yet so profound to use music as a support for the life/death transition. I play the Celtic harp and also use […]
What is Your Medicine?
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What is Your Medicine? What words are holding you right now? What songs are you walking with on the journey? How do you build capacity for the intensity of these […]
Sankalpa: Intentions & The New Year
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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
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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 […]
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 […]