Freestyle meditation allows us to use all sensations that flow in and around us as a tool for our practice. Find a comfortable seat, indoors or outdoors, and recenter with this open-awareness practice. 9-Minute Free-Style Meditation
After the events of the past weeks, it seems like the perfect time to reset our nervous systems with calming breathwork. Our nervous system was designed to protect us from danger and then return to homeostasis so we can navigate our daily lives. Our...
November, for me, is the Month of Many Events. When my children were small, we hurled ourselves from Halloween to Birthdays 1, 2, and 3, followed by Thanksgiving, Hannukah, and Christmas. Sometimes, I wonder how I had the energy to make it through! During...
Monday evening, as the holidays drew to a close, I finally opened my inbox to explore the waiting gems from my contemplative teachers. I had intended to savor the end-of-year wisdom all week, making notes in my journal and reflecting over a cup of...
I love magic and mystery and Yoga Nidra is magical and mysterious. I love juxtapositions and Yoga Nidra invites us to see opposites working together. I love feeling grounded in the body but yet expansive and Yoga Nidra creates both. I love the process of self-discovery and increased self-awareness and Yoga Nidra fosters these. I love...
As we move into the new year, the new decade, each of us has the opportunity to wipe away the old and intentionally step forward into the new. Meditation practice offers the same benefit, the opportunity to step out of the conditioned patterns of...
Outside a gentle rain is falling on the tin roof of the cabin. Curled up in bed with my laptop, the slanted ceiling of the bedroom loft is alive with the sound of rain.
At the end of my recent nine day training at the Kripalu Yoga Center in Lenox, Massachusetts, I was asked to reflect on what I wanted to remember about being there and the teachings I learned. If I reduced this to two words, they...
