Archive for December 2025

Last week I was preparing for my Monday class and I didn’t have a message. Usually the message shows up sometime during the prior week and if I am mindful I catch it, but last week that didn’t happen. I sat to briefly meditate and connect with my breath; the deep inhale and the audible…

I am working with a coaching client who shared a common struggle about having trouble getting excited about things that they usually enjoyed. So I assigned GLIMMER homework to my client. I assigned it to myself last week as well and to all of my students on the mat.  Glimmers are the opposite of minor…

I think most of us can relate to those times when others around us are suffering and it can feel like a heavy weight sinking us down. The practice of mindfulness teaches us many strategies for learning how to hold others pain lightly in an effort to be of service to both them and yourself.…

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. For the last 5 years I have shared the same story about a brief interaction that happened in Nov 2020 (the height of COVID) the week before Thanksgiving. All the years I lived in NY I always hosted a large Thanksgiving. Obviously, 2020 was going to be…