Music is Medicine
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?
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
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
