Living from Essence

Posted by on Jan 8, 2012 in Uncategorized | 2 comments The New Year brings with it expectations of resolutions; often in the form of breaking old habits and forming new ones. Most of us want to live better lives, whatever that may mean. For me, a couple of things come to mind.  One is my commitment to write again after a hiatus of a couple of months.  Part of this hiatus has been driven by my enthusiasm for a new project I’ve been on which I’ve...
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Restoring Your State

Posted by on Oct 9, 2011 in Uncategorized, yoga of relationship ~ life | 0 comments Your state of being is at the heart of how you experience yourself in life.  It informs your perspective and your choices.  It is your responsibility to protect and restore your state.  Yet, when your state is jangled by the challenges of life, you get thrown into a variety of very human reactions — anger, sad, frustrated, scared or even wild, over the moon joy.  These reactions can be...
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Softening into Remembrance

Posted by on Sep 9, 2011 in relationship to life | 5 comments I was on the phone with a client.  I heard her gasp and say, “they’re telling me a plane just hit one of the towers of the World Trade Center.”  I remember we both carried on for another minute or so, a little in shock.  How do you actually take in information like that?  After a minute or so, she said they were evacuating her building and she had to go.  At the time she...
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courage and compassion

Posted by on Jun 28, 2011 in body care, cultivating peace, relationship to self | 2 comments It was a dark night in Memphis.  I was heading to the hotel.  Friendly people on the corner greeted me.  As I turned to respond, I missed the curb and BAM!  In an instant I was on the ground.  My glasses flew off my face and my bag went flying.  Yowee.  Kazowee! All is well, just a scrape here and bruise there.  No big deal.  The big deal came later as I sat down to reflect on what...
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spiritual freedom

Posted by on Jun 15, 2011 in cultivating peace, relationship to life, Uncategorized, yoga of relationship ~ life | 2 comments At dinner the other night with a group of friends, my friend Ginny shared pictures and stories from a trip she took to Bali.  For me, what was striking about the conversation was how she kept coming back to the word “freedom.”  Ginny also touched on something that I’ve been thinking about for a very long time now, that our freedom is also our responsibility.  She illustrated...
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