showing up as your REAL self

Posted by on May 2, 2011 in cultivating peace, relationship to life, relationship to self, relationships, this i believe, Uncategorized | 11 comments Twenty years ago this year, I moved from Salt Lake City, Utah to east Tennessee.  For me, it was a bit of a challenging move.  For all its conservativeness, the culture of Salt Lake was balanced by an open-minded contingency of people.  There were lots of yoga studios, drumming circles, alternative approaches to mental and spiritual well-being.  I fit in. I had a thriving practice and active...
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do you know you are precious?

Posted by on Oct 28, 2010 in yoga of relationship ~ life | 6 comments Do you know?  Do you know how truly remarkable you are?  Or have the challenges of life distorted your view? I think that in the ups and downs of daily life, many of us just forget how very precious we are and how truly remarkable life is.  We human beings tend to get caught up in the ups and downs and dramas of life.  In this way, it’s easy to get pulled off center and shift out of...
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sacred threads ~ coats of many colors

Posted by on Sep 21, 2010 in relationship to life, relationships, sacred threads | 8 comments I’ve been re-reading a translation of the Shiva Sutras, an text from the tradition of Kashmir Shaivism.  One of the sutras reads, “Nothing exists that is not Shiva.”  Shiva, of course, is another name for all-pervasive consciousness, God, the Great Mystery, Allah, Shiva, The God of 10,000 Names.  This teaching is echoed in Psalm 139 in the Holy Bible, “Whither shall I go...
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on being flexible

Posted by on Aug 12, 2010 in cultivating peace, mindfulness | 10 comments Things don’t always unfold as I think they should.  Does that ever happen to you?  Come on, you can tell me. Long ago, for Lent, I gave up having expectations, not that I’m Catholic or Episcopalian.  I just like the idea of Lent.  (Note to Self, write about Lent, during Lent!)  I found that I was not so successful at completely letting go of expectations, but it sure did make me...
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follow your nose days

Posted by on Aug 2, 2010 in mindfulness | 7 comments I love love love ‘follow my nose days.’  I aim to have a ‘follow my nose days’ at least once a week.  These days were inspired by one of my long time favorite books, “The Secret River” by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. These are the days I wander through my life, following my nose.  It feels like finding and re-aligning with the Current of Life moving through me...
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