Keeping the Light ON!
We are at one of the two times in the year when the night and day are of equal length: Fall Equinox, 9/22. We are at one of many times in history when the darkness of human nature is working hard to push out the light of wisdom...though who I call the pushers of...
Why Yoga is Dope
Why Yoga is Dope by Mia Velez The growing popularity of Yoga is a testament to its effectiveness in generating a sense of well-being. A multitude of scientific research shows yoga can alleviate symptoms for a wide range of illnesses such as addiction, diabetes, high...
A Season with More than Leaves Falling
Does perspective depend on what lens you're looking through? Can your life’s experience and personal ability to comprehend a situation be understood as the limited space to which you draw conclusions and live life? How large is the space within and around what we each...
Waking Up is Hard to Do
The alarm has gone off…and the snooze button has been running not just 2 or 3 times, but hundreds of thousands of times for decades, centuries and over many lifetimes: The alarm of inequality, injustice, unconscious harm to sentient beings for the gain of...
Remembering How May Flowers Got Here
Reflecting back on one year ago, noticing what’s the same and what’s different... Obviously, there’s the pro-longed shelter in place order, then there’s the presence of our current outlook on life regardless of time or other external circumstanceIt helps...
Suddenly Waking Up from a Deep Sleep
Well, this is an interesting time as we experience something strange and life changing. And it’s not an earthquake or tsunami, not a flood or uncontrollable fire. It’s nothing that the naked eye can see, yet we have an automatic response to the unknown that tends to...
July 2019: Liberate Your Body, Free Your Mind
July! We’re mid-way into 2019 and it’s been another dynamic year of relating to worldly matters! Whether from a political, ecological, social or personal perspective, I feel there is much to reflect on….and celebrate! It’s such an interesting time to wonder what is...
MAY – We Celebrate This Given Life!
Hooray it’s May, 2019! As we celebrate our mothers who gave us life, MAY we also take a moment to reflect on the life we’ve been given…or chosen! Do you believe you chose to be here or that it’s by accident? Is some other force guiding us or is every moment the spark...
May-ur-asana Be Easeful and Joyful
Mayurasana | Peacock Pose by Mukunda Marc Morozumi (Posted in the May 2017 Integral Yoga Newsletter) Mayurasana is a balance pose that when practiced in full expression, resembles the balancing head and tail feathers of a peacock while the yogi balances on the hands...
Cincinnati Vegan Seder Plate
I'm reposting this blog, written a handful of years back during my Passover in Cincinnati. Heading there next week and since I was thinking about Cincinnati, Passover, Mom, etc, figured I'd post this one again... Enjoy! Happy spring season! Passover time last year -...