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As the mornings get cooler here in Philadelphia we know the season is truly shifting. The energy and chaos of September has begun to settle. My mother has a wonderful mantra for this time of year. "September's chaos become October's routine." I can feel deep in my bones the resignation that...

In the journey of yoga when you first experience a pose it's all about the physical shape and quickly your body tells you how it is working. You feel it. As you revisit a pose over time much more is revealed. Chair pose is like that. It begins with your feet together, knees together and hands on...

Listen to Alice Dommert read the post here. [audio m4a="/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/A-Mindful-Jewel.m4a"][/audio]   My latest favorite magazine is called mindful: taking time for what matters. When the October issue arrived a week ago I must admit I did not recognize the woman on...

Want to listen to this week's blog instead of reading? [audio m4a="/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/A-Daily-Practice.m4a"][/audio] It seems like this week is a week to welcome you back. Even if you don't have children going back to school, the turn of the calendar to September is a shift. It's a...

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It's the text you hope you won't get. Hey, Mom. I'm at the ER now. We'd dropped him off for college just six days ago. He'd been kayaking on Lake Champlain and camping in the outback with ten other college freshman. No media. All new people. We had talked the day before when he had returned...

People say to me all the time, "I can't do yoga. I can't even touch my toes." It always brings this image to mind of a kind of crazy keystone cop arriving at a yoga class and going one-by-one to check people in standing forward fold. Not touching your toes, out you go. I'll let you in on two...

Leave it to Dr. Seuss. He has delivered many important messages for much of my life. Last week, with his help, I discovered what mindfulness truly is. For all of you who have children, you know that one day they will, if all goes well, graduate from high school and move on with their life....

I have a beautiful corner bedroom on a second floor in the place I live now. At that corner, right outside is a huge tree. I can't see the trunk of the tree, but the branches wrap around and fill the view of each of the two windows. One window opens to the rising sun, and through the other, I...

In a yoga class I was teaching at one of our client's offices last week, I realized something looked different. Typically there are screens pulled down in this room because it is a large conference room. That day there were some nice big sections of unencumbered walls. Ahhhh! You know you are a...