The perennial New Year's Resolution is getting a makeover, and I'm glad for it. The old look was hard to keep up with, swathed in an attitude that we weren't good enough last year, so we better kick it up this year; we all know how that turned out. By February, we were exhausted and demoralized, and whatever habits we were seeking to change tended to creep back in, leaving many with the feeling that the new year got off to a false start.
Read moreTake the practice home this year
One of the most rewarding elements of a yogic lifestyle is establishing a home practice, but getting started can be intimidating!
Read moreLive your yoga values in 2023
While yogic practice may create a temporary cocoon of comfort, ultimately it is about increasing our comfort with discomfort and standing in the values of truth, love, service, peace, and reducing the suffering of all beings.
Read moreHappy New Year
We send you our most sincere wishes for happiness, peace, and relief from suffering as the new year dawns. May it be a bright and healthy 2023 for all!
Read moreLaser focus yields big energy
This phenomenon of sharply focused attention yielding a surplus of energy is the opposite of our social programming, which tells us to divide attention in multi-tasked directions, to push beyond our comfort zones, to go big or go home, but all this external focus can leave us frustrated, anxious, and depleted, much like the state of Earth itself.
Read moreThe Sound of Inner Silence
A study on the effects of singing bowls on mood, anxiety, tension, pain and well-being found that participants reported significantly less tension, anger, fatigue, and depressed mood, and a marked increase in spiritual well-being.
Read moreSpontaneous Gratitude
Through mindful practice, we can find an intangible, unexpressed part of consciousness that can keep us grounded and awake to subtle forms of wisdom and understanding. It may guide skillful response to agitation and annoyance, it could help us find space for self-care, and in the presence of hate or anger, it has the potential to tell us whether to walk away or confront with courage.
Read moreInhale, Exhale, Vote!
Individual wellness is inextricable from collective wellness, and collective wellness depends on a system of government that ensures each individual is valued, cared for, and given a voice. Democracy is our system, and it needs our engagement more than ever.
Read morePodcast Alert!
Uplifting, easy-going, thought-provoking conversations about practicing and teaching yoga, living and loving mindfulness and meditation, and breathing and being in challenging times.
Read moreCalibrating Courage
Each of us is a finely-tuned individual being, with a custom calibrated courage meter, which makes it pointless to judge the guts someone else needs for a task at hand. There’s also no point in judging ourselves.
Read moreMaking Simple, Happy Habits
If we view meditation and contemplative practice as opportunities to turn the skill of thought-quieting into a reflexive habit that doesn't require much effort, like the mundane chores of daily life, we can become adept housekeepers of the heart and mind.
Read moreYou Might Need A Butterfly Hug Right Now
Try this simple hack for moments of anxiety and overwhelm
Read moreWeathering Storms Together
Our hearts and minds are with those in Puerto Rico and Florida and everywhere else lying in the wake of this current storm, and anyplace where suffering takes hold as we strive to coexist on this struggling planet.
Read moreWhat's A Weekend?
While setting aside Saturdays and Sundays for pure relaxation is still the ideal for many, what seems more common is a daily jumbled program of work, ease, socializing, exercise, and self-care.
Read moreShifting on axis
It's hard to know how history will view our current times without a couple thousand years of hindsight, but it's not hard to feel and see the numerous data points currently shaping our own sort of axial moment.
Read moreAre you busy?
What happens when we rest/breathe/contemplate is the grand and invisible work of a nervous system recalibrating our frail humanness, leaving us better in balance: strong enough to meet big moments of activity, soft enough to enjoy our own quiet company, compassionate and patient enough to tend relationships with full hearts.
Read moreInto the Deep: In-Depth Teacher Training Sneak Peek
Have you been toying with joining an acclaimed 200-hour teacher training program? We lead folks into the deep curiosity, fellowship, and learning that a yoga journey can inspire.
Read moreThe fine line of flexibility
On the road to flexibility, we must be on the lookout for significant potholes. Hitting those at high speed risks losing the integrity that defines and holds us together, and many of us move so fast that we don't realize we've gone beyond safe boundaries until something breaks, whether it is a tendon or a heart.
Read moreNew Skills and Freshly Cut Grass
Because we know that the human brain is malleable, neuroscience has been able to map the avenues of new neural pathway creation toward the best of who we can be: more confident, more creative, more attentive, more patient, more resilient. In a word, happier.
Read moreShaken ground, steady breath
If something hurts, feel the pain. If something confuses, ask questions. If something angers, trace the anger’s source. If something is untenable, reach out to what you can reliably touch: a friend to give a comforting hug, a donation button to give material support, or the earth where you’ve planted – with eternal optimism – your summer tomatoes.
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