Archive for November 2023
The Partnership of Grief & Gratitude
I hope you all had a wonderful holiday with family and friends. I certainly did! I was very grateful for all of the people I got to see and spend time with. I was also super happy to be back seeing some of my old students and teaching at Hastings Yoga last week. The theme…
Read MoreThe Power of Attention & Intention
The essence of Buddhism and Mindfulness can be boiled down to two words; INTENTION & ATTENTION. There is a complete interconnectedness between our sense of what truly matters (intention) and how we pay attention. It is really powerful when we deploy these two concepts at the same time. When we connect to what truly matters…
Read MoreThe Power of Acceptance
I hope you all are doing well. The heaviness in the world has definitely given way to moments of hopelessness in many of us. For myself it usually starts with feeling disconnected from my purpose combined with a feeling of helplessness. From there often judgment takes over. With practice I have learned to see the…
Read MoreUse Your Wings to Fly
I hope you all had a nice weekend. Last week I shared with students that there are two Wings of Mindfulness and we need them both working together in order to FLY. The first wing is AWARENESS. When we notice our thoughts we have the power to shift them. The second wing is to be…
Read MoreConnect to Your Spiritual Warrior
I hope you all are doing well. This week as I was preparing for my classes I realized that my message had not come to me. Usually it shows up at some point but this week it hadn’t. I started thinking about the energy I needed to cultivate in myself and hopefully to put out…
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