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I hope you all are doing well.  As I was thinking last weekend about what I wanted to share with my classes I read this passage from Mark Nepo. What We Bring Along — Mark NepoA river doesn’t hold all the water that passes through it. In our journey through time, we all struggle constantly…

Happy Monday! I hope you all are doing well. For some folks here, school starts back today and that is the official end of summer. The last couple of weeks for me have been a slower pace than typical and I have been really enjoying them. It helped me remember and experience this quote “If we…

I hope you all had a nice weekend. Over the last several weeks I have been going through and organizing all of my writing starting back from my first blog post in 2012. While doing so, I was reminded of an anecdote that Jack Kornfield shared about a friend of his who had a sign hanging…

I hope you all had a nice weekend. It was great to be back teaching at Dandelight Studio last week. This practice is so much about noticing what is going on in the mind and from there we can often find an understanding and hopefully a softening. This was my experience last week as I was…

I hope you all had a great weekend. I am excited to be back home and teaching back at Dandelight after a couple of busy travel weeks. Last week I was in NY. In addition to seeing family and a few friends, I spent two days teaching my Mindfulness for Actors curriculum in the summer…

Happy Monday. Early last week my mind was very busy; almost like there was a background movie playing that I was having a hard time shutting off. I focused a bit more on my meditation to try to connect and soften into what was underneath the clutter and I was reminded of this poem which…

I hope you all had a nice weekend. I just got home from St. Martin and it was a great trip!!  I have been fortunate to have traveled to St. Martin a few times prior to this trip, most recently 4 summers ago. As I was preparing for this trip I noticed the stories in my mind.…

My newsletter is a little late today because I woke up this morning in beautiful St Martin. I just completed a month long Intro to Buddhism class that I shadowed along side my daughter. It was a very interesting topic to approach through an academic lens and it has filled in many gaps in my understanding…

We all have strategies for when we feel unsettled. One of mine is to dig into the readings that inspire me. That is what I did this week as it helps me to ground, refocus on my practice and work harder. This was the poem that inspired me and what I shared with my students this…

I hope you all had a great weekend. I have been fostering 4 kittens for the last few weeks. It has been harder than I thought it would be however it has been gratifying as well. They have been my teachers. I am not able to keep any of these kittens due to a severe…