Category: Wellbeing

What does the word PRACTICE mean to you? In my work, I typically hear the word practice in reference to yoga or meditation; but you can make a practice out of anything. I think of a practice as anything you do consistently for personal and/or spiritual healing, growth, or development. A...

The article title that came across my desk last Monday read, “The No. 1 thing women really want at work: ‘It boils down to 2 words,’ according to 800 executives." It caught my interest. I paused to try and guess the two words. I thought about my “executive” women friends. As I think...

The search which we make for this quality, in our own lives, is the central search of any person, and the crux of any individual person’s story. It is the search for those moments and situations when we are most alive. —Christopher Alexander “ The Timeless Way of Building” This summer I...

Did you see the Pixar movie WALL-E? It's a story about the earth being contaminated with garbage in 2805. A mega-corporation BUY-N-LARGE has evacuated everyone to live on a huge starliner spaceship, The Axiom. It is space so there is no gravity and The Axiom's passengers have a very automated...

Change...of seasons, of life, of anything can bring up all kinds of thoughts, emotions and experiences. I actually like change, or so I say. Until something unexpected happens and I want things to stay the same. One of my earliest lessons related to change was watching The Brady Bunch. I've...

I’m a sloucher. I criticize myself about my posture, but find that when I sit for more than thirty minutes that I can’t keep my head above my spinal chord. It takes a conscious effort to maintain good posture, but that doesn’t mean it has to be difficult. How is bad posture affecting your...

So I had the awesome experience to visit Costa Rica recently. The country is beautiful and heaven for someone like me who loves hot humid weather. I was in the more remote part of the country, the Osa Peninsula, and was at a yoga retreat center called Blue Osa. I’ll write about the food and...

So I realized this week that having the expectation that winter was almost over was, perhaps, unrealistic. It always seems I’m leaning into the future. It seems the weather is telling me there are at least a few more weeks of hibernation. Perhaps I need to lean back and abide in this time of rest...

So if you live in Philadelphia and have been to the Museum of Art you might recognize this painting by Marcel Duchamp. It’s the Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2. Once I heard a seated twist described as your spine opening up like a spiral staircase. This Duchamp painting popped into my head....

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...