Life School How's life school treating you? Are you building the unique skill set required for you to feel that you are optimally living? One of my favorite contemplations of late is in reflecting on the wide range of skills we modern humans need in order to fully...

As I prepare for my upcoming workshop on the Essentials of Self Care for Women I find myself once again percolating in the contemplation of the high art, of deep self-care. It may seem like a trivial or indulgent subject to some, but on deeper inspection we find that...

Artist: unknown Happy New Year to you! I love marking the cycles of time, celebrating seasonal changes, shedding the past and consecrating new beginnings. Every year I spend time in personal ceremony, active daydreaming and ritual at the beginning of the New Year in...

When will you know that you actually have and are enough?Will you always be striving for more?Will there come a time when you have arrived?Will you ever feel truly satisfied?What would it take for you to be deeply satiated with this experience of living?a bigger...

Are you thriving like a verdant ecosystem, inside and out?I love to imagine my friends, clients, students and loved ones thriving. And I take deep pride in helping others to thrive.What I’ve been noticing lately in myself and amongst my coaching clients and students...

Is your own mind your greatest ally? Or your most insidious foe?From Zen Buddhism to modern mindfulness practice humanity has a long and deep history of techniques designed to help release some of the grip and attachment to the on-going, rolling story and stressful...

"Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us, Between the two stands resistance. If resistance couldn't be beaten, there would be no Fifth Symphony, no Romeo and Juliet, no Golden Gate Bridge. Defeating resistance is like giving birth,...

Some of you that have been in my yoga class recently have heard me talking about a big part of my spiritual practice being contemplation. The way I use contemplation in my daily practice is to feel into a concept that has a particular resonance - given what is...

In the tantric yoga tradition our deepest primal yearning to merge with the beloved is recognized as an echo of our potent primordial longing to return to our original state of Unified Awareness and Source Energy. Our desire is viewed as a microcosmic reverberation of...