Forget who you believed yourself to be, who you thought others thought you were. Become someone who can’t answer simple questions like, “What do you do?” Fail. Totally and completely fail to reach your intended destination, though carrying a map and compass. You are where you need to be the moment after you give up [...]
This post was originally written as a guest post for REVEAL. A few weeks ago I was in Canada leading an outdoor yoga council for yoga teachers. A yoga council is a yoga class that opens and closes with a council circle, an ancient and pan-cultural practice of using a talking piece to support speaking [...]
When I returned at the end of last month from my life-changing trip, everything in my life felt upside down and subsequently felt up for re-evaluation. Two things I knew for sure were: 1. I wanted to get out of my own way and truly follow my joy in my work. 2. I was tired [...]
May 10th: I am in the passenger seat of a car on HWY 25 in New Mexico. Myself, my co-guide and one of our assistants for the women’s vision fast that will begin in two days have just left the Albuquerque airport. Suddenly we are swerving dramatically, and then spinning across traffic. My body tells [...]
In teaching yoga I often talk about playing your edge in a pose—finding the spot in the stretch that is enough sensation that you’re not bored and not too much sensation that you hurt yourself or want to escape. This spot, your edge, is where you feel challenged, compelled and connected. It’s the place where [...]
The other day my counselor called me on having, what she termed, “a fantasy relationship box” that I’ve been carrying around since childhood. It’s the idea that there’s a relationship out there that somehow meets all the romantic and practical qualities of my dream relationship. On the outside of this fantasy box, in silver glitter, [...]
This afternoon I had an initial conversation on the phone with a soon-to-be bride about the potential of officiating her wedding. I congratulated her on her recent engagement, and as a way of feeling out whether my approach to ceremonies would be a good fit, I asked her why they were getting married and what [...]
In taking the last day of the 2010 to reflect on where I am, I must admit I didn’t complete many of the goals I set this time last year. Not to say that this alternate destination doesn’t have its own blessings, but it’s not quite what I crafted last new years. As I look [...]
Here we are on the first day of December. This morning as I was practicing I thought of how when I was a kid, today would have been the day that we would have hung the star on the advent calendar that our Grandma Kelly had made. The advent calendar was the ultimate count down [...]
Happy Halloween! At this moment kids all over the neighborhood are no doubt getting on their costumes and preparing to tromp around and get candy for dressing up like the things that scare them. And as I sit down to write, it dawns on me that the theme of this week has been fear. Not [...]