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Happy Monday!  This past week was really great. I had the chance to teach at 3 new studios and that is very exciting. When we approach new things there are several mindfulness tools we can deploy. I have shared many of them with you through this newsletter but one of the most powerful is RESILIENCE.…

Happy Labor Day Weekend! I hope you all are doing well. I have had a couple of people in my life suddenly lose a parent in the last couple of weeks. There is the intellectual understanding of the natural course of things and then there is processing the shock and touching what is out of our…

I hope you all had a nice weekend! While I was away I spent quite a bit of time in the familiar and also a lot of time in the unfamiliar. I noticed how my mind felt less burdened and stressed when I was exploring new places so since I returned home I have tried…

I hope you all had a nice weekend! While I was away I spent quite a bit of time in the familiar and also a lot of time in the unfamiliar. I noticed how my mind felt less burdened and stressed when I was exploring new places so since I returned home I have tried…

Wow! These last couple of weeks have been a whirlwind both physically and emotionally for me. I traveled to 5 places and slept in 7 different locations! As I visited with lots of family, friends and students, the time was full of bittersweet reminiscing as well as the excitement of exploring a new place, Montreal…

Happy Monday. I hope you all are doing well. Last week I was finalizing the content for a 6 hour Mindfulness Course I will be teaching at Michael Howard Studios Acting School in Manhattan next week. I decided to share the overall theme of the workshop as my mindful message for the week.  It really…

I hope you all had a great summer weekend. I continue to be amazed by the power of our minds to shape our reality. When we observe our thoughts with a bit of objectivity we have options; we can choose how those thoughts can best serve us. It is this remarkable power that we often…

I hope you all had a good week. I have been struggling a bit these past few weeks with my own inner critic. I have noticed it has been especially loud so I have been leaning more heavily on my meditation practice to help me quiet it. This reading by Mark Nepo entitled Integrity has…

Happy July! I hope you are all enjoying the summer so far. A couple of weeks ago I was spending time with a friend of mine that is going through a challenging time. Often, when we experience difficulty it is coming from several forces at once and it can make us feel quite overwhelmed. We…

I hope you all had a great weekend! One of the most powerful aspects of a mindfulness practice is learning how to NOTICE. It sounds silly as we are taking in stimuli and information constantly, but really paying attention, processing and learning from the messages we are receiving takes practice. Sometimes the universe bangs us…