This morning, I attended a meditation and heard some words I needed to hear. The words, which my yoga teacher read, were from Swami Satchidinanda. Since I don’t have the text, I’ll paraphrase. The basic idea was God is always there. Things often seem mysterious, and the meaning of life eludes us. We question why … [Read more…]
In a yoga class a few years ago, my teacher read some verses about the power of gratitude. They were timely words for me, because just that week, I’d started a simple gratitude journal. It’s something I hadn’t really done before, not because I’m ungrateful, but because I was always distracted with other things. Several … [Read more…]
I don’t know about you, but I haven’t met a lot of angry yogis. I’m not referring to yogis who get angry. I’m talking about yogis who are angry at their core. It’s not that anger is not a trait among yogis (in fact, a lot of us turn to yoga to deal with emotions like anger), but because dealing … [Read more…]
Last week, I had a dream about yoga pants that turned out to be the sign I was looking for—the sign it was time to publish Yoga Circles. In my yoga pants dream, it was early morning, and I was chatting with a client about a project. After a while, my client suggested we stop talking about … [Read more…]
On Inauguration Day, just as the new president was about to take the oath of office, I switched off my car radio and entered a wonderful new healing center down the road from my new home. I visited the center this day because my dear yoga teacher, Marla Sacks, had invited me to experience her … [Read more…]