Warm greetings. Beginning today, I’m taking a one-month teaching, blogging and working hiatus. I look forward to slowing down and filling my well.
I’ve noticed in many recent yoga publications there are articles addressing “how to keep yoga fresh.” Yoga isn’t a head of lettuce so why does it need to stay fresh? Yoga is [...]

For the past couple of years my Father has been slowly declining in his health. He has a myriad of serious health issues including dementia. My siblings and I have been his primary caretakers. We have all learned so much about aging, things that are out of our control, and how to love someone [...]

It takes great discipline to practice the art of “being present.”  We are conditioned from the moment we wake, until we close our eyes and sleep, to being busy. When we come from that place, we are never really where we are, doing what we are doing, engaging fully in the moments of our lives. [...]

When all this is put aside,
with ease and without effort,
then only is there that intense energy
which can only exist and flower in freedom.
In freedom alone, it causes no conflict and sorrow;
then alone it increases and has no end.
It is life that has no beginning and no end;
it is creation which is love, destruction.
Energy used in [...]

The teachings of Swami Radha are at once profound and simple. In the recent issue of “Ascent” Magazine, volume 38, the author asks us to look at our body as if it were a garden. If we were able to peacefully walk through that garden we might discover something most beautiful and interesting. A good [...]

To begin anew is to look deeply and honestly at ourselves, our past actions, speech and thoughts and to create a fresh beginning within ourselves and in our relationships with loved ones. When a difficulty arises in our relationships and one of us feels resentment or hurt, we know it is time to [...]