Dear reader,
Today I am sharing a post on white privilege, written by a young woman I know personally. I am sharing this because she says it better than I could ever say it.
I grew up attending Denver Public Schools during the era of desegregation, from 5th grade until I graduated from high school. I fought […]
Dear reader,
I was listening to an interview with my primary teacher, Yogarupa Rod Stryker on the Resilience Summit, hosted by Ashley Turner. I was struck by one particular comment, which is that during this time of the pandemic, he has had some of his deepest moments of joy, which I know to mean inherent joy, […]
I’ve been reading Jen Sincero’s wonderful book You are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth. There is a chapter entitled “Faith and Gratitudinal Gold” that reminds me of my big career change, almost 20 years ago, now.
Let me back up a bit to the years before I jumped off the cliff […]
As a seeker my entire life, in search of my own healing and evolution, I have walked two parallel paths: psychotherapy and spirituality. I have had the great fortune of studying with several master teachers in both realms.
My path with psychotherapy began over 35 years ago, when I fell into a dark, suicidal depression. In […]
I recently returned from the Himalayan Institute in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, where I attended an intensive study of the Tantra of the Inner Shrine, given by Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, the spiritual head of the Institute.
The essence of this intensive was about accessing our authentic, true nature—the inner shrine residing in our bodies—and embracing the divinity residing […]
Did you set any New Year’s resolutions, and are you following through? How many of us set them and then fail to follow-through?
I prefer the idea of setting an intention, or in yogic terms, sankalpa. There is a big difference between a mere intention and a sankalpa. Breaking down the word, “kalpa” means a […]
Light Bearers
Hello,
Recently a friend gave me the book Into the Heart of Yoga: One Woman’s Journey by Danna Faulds, which is an excellent memoir of her journey with Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health), and Amrit Desai, as well as her life and marriage. Along the way, she discovered her gift as a writer and […]
In August, I attended my second Yoga Nidra training, this time a 9-day training with my teacher, Yogarupa Rod Stryker. Besides being life-changing, several of us realized that we had not been fully doing Yoga Nidra! I realized that I was comfortably allowing myself to fade in and out of consciousness. Although I would pop […]
Last year, a survey conducted annually by the American Psychological Association indicated that stress levels in the US are at an all-time high and that the majority of adults (59%) consider this the lowest point in the nation’s history that they can remember.
At the same time, autoimmune illness, or disease, is recognized as a major […]
Symptoms as Unwanted Visitors
There have been numerous posts in the news and on social media, after the recent suicides of two famous people, who seemingly had everything: Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain.
One of my clients commented that maybe these suicides give us permission to escape a life where we feel a lack of meaning […]