Tag: resilience

  • Being at Home in Your Body, Laughing

    One moment during a yoga workshop, my teacher said, “Buddha is laughing because there’s nowhere to go.” I don’t remember the context of this proclamation. Were we practicing asana? Was it a dharma talk? Was this in her answer to a student’s inquiry? I have no idea. But this quote is now handwritten, in cursive,…

  • Aliveness Bursts from the Courageous Heart and You Are Home

    Aliveness Bursts from the Courageous Heart and You Are Home

    Courage is meeting ‘the heart’ – where ‘the heart’ is the pulsating vitality of things, of ecological things, that bends you into new shapes. One does not “have” courage; one is summoned by it. Anointed by it. Touched by it.   Bayo Akomolafe What is aliveness?Is there meaning here in this word for you? Does…

  • New Offerings 2024-2025

    New Offerings 2024-2025

    Hello, Yoga Friends, I’ve been practicing Reiki in the Usui tradition for the last four years and am beginning to offer formal sessions. I received my level 1 reiki attunement in-person in February of 2020, my level 2 virtually later that year, and received re-attunement earlier this month. I look forward to sharing reiki with…