Author: Alice Dommert

In my design life the idiom was that God was in the details. And truly in most good design it is the nuances of the tiny details in the hem of a dress, or the wood trim, or special finish of a surface that truly makes the difference. When these details are ignored you can feel the lack of attention...

Have you ever wondered why the leaves change color? Or perhaps you are one of the few people who remember the reason from your middle school science class. I had forgotten and got curious about how all these amazing colors emerge in the fall when there was so much green just weeks before. The...

At its core, yoga is about the breath. Sinking into this life force and being with the cycle of the breath, the receiving and the letting go. In a nutshell that is what life is about receiving and letting go. Reaching and resting. In yoga we practice the ujjayi breath. You breathe in and out...

What I love about summer is the freedom. No school, vacations. The patterns of homework and getting things done is interrupted. It feels good. It’s time to lay in the sun, look at the clouds and the sea and just take a breath. Summer may be a favorite season of yours, or not. The beautiful...

Lately I’ve been encountering a lot of friends, colleagues, and students exhibiting signs of the End of Summer Blues. At first they are subtle: short sighs, gazing out windows longingly, squeezing out every minute of spending time in the sun in the evening and looking a bit glum when the sun...

I first learned about letting life unfold with ease at a retreat at Kripau with Sylvia Boorstein, a wonderful meditation teacher. The phrase was part of a metta meditation practice. The practice is a wonderful daily meditation where you say four statements and wishes for yourself, the final one...

My son loves eating Wheat Thins. When he was in elementary school the teachers all knew that. They had a secret stash of Wheat Thins that were always ready. If he seemed to be crashing they'd break the glass and administer them. It always worked. We all have our go to ways that help calm us and...

Most often yoga is believed to be a series of postures we do to stretch our bodies, find relief from pain and find some relaxation and clarity. Yet the practice of yoga extends to some bigger principles that play out in our lives off the mat. Flexible bodies equate to flexible minds. Knowing where...

I have a dream...that every office would have a Savasana room. A what? A Savasana room. Let me explain. One of the big things people are talking about lately, and we are helping people to set up, are sit stand desks and treadmill desks. I LOVE this and we have very happy clients, like Marsha...

What do a trapeze artist and a yogi have in common? More than you might think. A trapeze artist swings from one set of bars to the next with ease and an enormous amount of faith. When she lets go of the one set of bars there is a second that seem to last forever before she is reattached to the next...