State of the Garden (and Effort and Surrender)
For a garden to thrive, it takes planning, knowledge/study, and engagement. To still find joy in it, one must also surrender to the vagaries out of our control. Sure enough, every year, with variations in weather and seed/root/plant stock, some… (READ MORE)
Stages of Life
What is optimal with our diet, exercise, and practice, depends on where we are in life.
Cat Sitting?
A Nap
Are you getting enough rest?
Yellow
The meadow ablaze with yellow flowers. Wild color the harbinger of changing seasons.
330 Million (Var.)
Mini Lessons
Friends and acquaintances ask me whether I am teaching yoga. My answer is that I do it when asked. Last week, I offered a “release” practice for a friend who is still having hot flashes many years after their final… (READ MORE)
Found Exhortation
Ahh. “Free the mind.” Free it of ignorance and being stuck in old, tired patterns of thinking—societal, ancestral, and created from our own lived experience. Free the mind to imagine, create, deduce, consider alternatives and choices and cause and effect…. (READ MORE)
Prakasha-Vimarsha?
At the Tillai Kali temple in Chidambaram, above the murti of Kali where ritual offerings are made, is a mirror that reflects the viewers, bringing their reflection into the puja. I noticed the mirror and asked Douglas Brooks, who was… (READ MORE)