Category: General

• January 13, 2023

  Waking Up

  I’ve started this morning ritual. The alarm goes off and the inky blackness of the room swallows me. Bed is never more appealing that in that conscious state of not quite wake, when you can appreciate a good snuggle in the covers and a pillow on your cheek, the feeling of being held for a…
• January 7, 2023

  We Are One

  Today, we return to the yoga teacher training after breaking for the holiday season.  Happy 2023 everyone! This is our final month, which seems unfathomable. Will we really have 200 hours on January 28th? Impossible. Also, I know nothing. I have scratched the tip of the tip of the tip of the iceberg. Me, teach?…
• December 31, 2022

  Interlude

  The past three days, I’ve been in a cabin in the northwoods of Wisconsin. Outside the windows the snow shrouds the earth, the lakes, the trees with their boughs reaching to the heavens in mostly gray sky. There is a peace and stillness to the surroundings, if you can hear it. If your mind will…
• December 22, 2022

  Satya: On Authenticity

  What is the truth? When I was in graduate school, longer ago than I want to admit, the social sciences were grappling with postmodernism. According to postmodernism, there really is no truth – truth is in the eye of the beholder and based on conditioning. There was some tension between this and a belief in…
• December 19, 2022

  Opportunities for Growth

  On Sundays, yoga teacher training happens in an old renovated feed mill. The studio is on the second floor and there is a wooden perimeter balcony that overlooks the airy, brick and glass bounded central space which is often used for indoor markets, weddings, and events. I arrived early yesterday, bought a cup of coffee…
• December 6, 2022

  Sticking Points

  When I started my computer this morning it was stuck on yesterday. 12/5, 10:36 PM the time and date read. Never mind, that it is currently 12/6, 4:42 AM. My computer is very old and quirky at this point in its life. It asks me to enter complicated codes so that it can start, it…
• December 1, 2022

  Holding On

  Last weekend, we had a break from yoga school. It was Thanksgiving weekend, or, as I call it – Gratitude Day. Thanksgiving is so historically problematic and being from a sort of imploded and disconnected family, the traditions haven’t felt meaningful to me in a long time, if they ever did. So, I’m okay with…
• November 12, 2022

  A Seeker

  Halloween was on a Sunday this year, 2022. Sunday is the traditional day of worship in the Christian tradition, anyhow. A lot of people are afraid of Christians. And why wouldn’t they be? Many of them are pretty scary people, what with the rules and the angry god and the exclusion and the hell and…