Tag: meditation

• August 8, 2023

  Life Lessons

  I’m listening to some dreamy, stardust strewn indie rock music. I turned it on to tune out the sounds of arguing voices outside the window, the conflict, the fear, the anger, I needed a tool to keep them out. I could shut my window, but then I also lose the feeling of the cool night…
• July 26, 2023

  Shuffle

  Two steps forward, one step back as the old saying goes. Life feels a lot like that. Sometimes it feels like one step forward two steps back. My career has often felt like one step forward, three steps back. I’m practiced in the art of self- sabotage. The thing is, these thoughts come from a…
• March 23, 2023

  Finding Flow

  Climbing gyms are places where all of your senses are thrown together in a kaleidoscope. There are smells – chalk, feet, sweat; sounds – music, grunts, chatter, whirring fans; sights – pockmarked walls, multi-shaped holds, rainbow colored tape, people of all ages, some with sinewy back muscles on display; touch- the gritty texture of a…
• March 7, 2023

  Cream Cheese

  Welcome to Sutra a Day. My hairdresser is a 26 year old girl who alternately knows and is above everything and is vulnerable and sensitive. She is voluptuous, often wears an Electric Forest t-shirt and looks at you expectantly through wire-rimmed round glasses. Her hair is a different shade of red with every visit. She…
• February 24, 2023

  Frenzied and Frozen

  Welcome to Sutra a Day. It’s a Friday, the venerated end of the work week for those of us in 9 – 5 office jobs. It’s a day when we – if we have boundaries – leave work behind and head into the realms of pleasure, however we define it in our mind. I’m using…
• February 23, 2023

  Grandma’s Basement

  Introduction Although yoga teacher training has come to an end, my learning and seeking certainly have not.  Recently, I found myself returning to Sri Swami Satchidananda’s book, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. I kept jumping around seeking wisdom with a mind like a grasshopper. Which sutra was it? What had seemed so deep and impactful…
• January 20, 2023

  Destination Elation

  In our final two weeks of yoga teacher training, we have to write a self-reflection. Here’s mine. As our yoga teacher training winds down, I recognize more starkly than when I started just how much I DON’T know. It reminds me of a long time ago when I studied martial arts. When I passed my…
• 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…