Author: Alice Dommert

Wow, and here we are in March already! I can’t remember the exact quote for lambs and lions, but I am seeing the subtle signs of spring. I recently led a retreat in the Boulder area and became fully aware that spring is many months away for them. It’s one of the magnificent...

A Floating Head It’s been over 15 years, but I can still recall what I felt like before I started practicing yoga and mindfulness.  At Prasada, we talk a lot about the three worlds within which we live. For me, at that time, my primary mode of navigation and experience of life was through the...

Wholebeing practices are habits of awareness where we train, create, heal and grow within each of three worlds—the mind, the body and nature. It was an unexpected place that prompted the question. I had committed to a year-long nutrition program in the fall and in that day's lesson was a link to...

Happy *almost* last month of the year to all of you. It feels like this year has been another roller coaster ride with new challenges and new learnings. One of the most valuable classes I have taken this year was a program I attended this past week with Adele Lafrance about emotion...

Last week I found myself in a bit of a funk. Some regular life frustrations, not feeling good for a day or so after a shingles vaccine, and falling into some entitlement thinking. It didn’t seem so bad at first, a small wobble. However, as time always reveals, small wobbles when unattended...

As I write this, I'm packing the last few things in my bag to head to the airport to take a trip that was originally planned for April 2020. I'm thinking a lot today about how things, including me, are different now. In the past, I would have been so excited the last few weeks as I prepared to...

It's hard for me to recognize it's already June. Our family celebrated 4 birthdays in May, with my daughter turning 21 yesterday, so here we are. So much to celebrate, yet at the same time so much heartache too. How it is that life includes such drastic contrasts? How do we keep moving on the...

He was a man in his early 60’s who earnestly asked the question. “What is yoga?” I was doing a presentation for a large accounting firm in Philadelphia. At first, I wasn't sure if he was serious, but I answered the question as best as I could. After the presentation, we talked further and...

Mindfulness is getting a lot of buzz in the last year, and sometimes it is hard to tell what is media hype and what is real. There are many people, myself included, who could sit with you for hours and cite the benefits of having mindfulness practices in their life. I will also tell you, they...

Lately, our team has been talking about, sharing, and practicing our resilience skills in a way we never imagined. It's a fascinating topic to think and train for resilience and yet you only know if your investment in the practices has been worth the effort when things get real. We've had many...