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 […]
Mindfulness
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 […]
Mindfulness and Moderation
Thus far in examining the Yamas (ethical principles for living from the yoga sutras), we’ve discussed non-violence, truthfulness, and non-stealing. Brahmacharya, the fourth of the five yamas, is often translated from the Sanskrit as conservation or celibacy. It is also understood as moderation. For the purpose of this blog, we’ll focus on moderation. Before we dive […]
Manifesting the Highest Good Through Truthfulness
Satya, or truthfulness, is the second yama in the Yoga Sutras. Last month, we examined ahimsa, or non-violence. In the sutras, truthfulness is closely aligned with non-violence. In fact, satya without ahmisa is not satya. So as we dive into the second sutra of truthfulness and sincerity, we’ll view this sutra through the lens of […]