Coping during difficult times and maintaining enough equilibrium to stay healthy, sane, and vital is an acquired skill. Many clients, colleagues, and family have expressed varying degrees of alarm at the daunting list of challenges we face domestically and abroad. And now we have Covid-19, an unprecedented virus spreading across every continent except Antarctica. Fasten […]
Meditation
Taming the Tech Dragon
Recently, I had tea with a colleague. I was astonished at how unaware he was about glancing at his phone. No fewer than eight(!) times during our meeting, he checked texts, e-mail, and voice mail. Twice he checked for incoming calls that weren’t there. It was Phantom Vibration Syndrome: when you don’t have an incoming […]
A personal journey: revisiting loss and the healing process
When the waves close over me, I dive down to fish for pearls.” –Masha Kaleko Recently, I learned about the untimely death by suicide of a high-school friend. It hit me hard and awakened a deep sadness as it resonated with and reawakened the loss of my mother by suicide when I was 11. […]
Yoga and the Use of Technology
This month we invite you to listen to an audio recording of a program entitled “Yoga and the Use of Technology,” presented August 19th at the Integral Yoga Institute in San Francisco. Heather Ford, Marc Morizumi, and I discussed our personal relationship to technology and how our use of technology can serve us, rather than […]
Loving Kindness Meditation
We live in stressful times, some of which is not of our own making. Devastating events like hurricanes and earthquakes have the ability to impact so many lives, including those who find themselves displaced, those who know someone directly affected, and those who find themselves feeling empathy for the suffering of all. But even when […]
Ways to Channel Compassion in the Face of Suffering
When someone we know is suffering, one of the most profound gifts we can offer is our presence. Yet it can be hard to know exactly how to respond. Most of us have never been taught how. And truth be told, it can feel easier to step back, walling in our own feelings, than to […]