Just opened randomly her book "Devotions". Look what I found on page 93. The Other Kingdoms by Mary Oliver Consider the other kingdoms. ...

This one is such a good prayer, and comes back from time to time during the conversations we have during the classes I teach. Here it is,...

A dear student reminded me of this poem a few days ago. The Uses of Sorrow by Mary Oliver Someone I loved once gave me a box full of...

So wonderful to read this poem today! Another gift from my Poetry Fairy, Toni Goodman. Messenger Mary Oliver My work is loving the world....

I was watching again the movie "Serendipity" (yes, I have a weakness for romantic comedies, as well as the habit of watching a movie I...

It is an incredible feeling for me, to be completely submerged in water. Sometimes playing while I stay for a moment at the bottom of the...

I first read this poem on Instagram, shared by a wonderful yoga teacher and mentor, Mynx Inastugu, not knowing how famous the poem is,...

It is such an honor to have received this gift from Toni Goodman. She wrote it for me when I moved from Oregon to California, almost 4...

Mrs. Nelson explained how to stand still and listen to the wind, how to find meaning in pumping gas, how peeling potatoes can be a form...

My sister Lourdes shared this with me: Gitanjali 35 by Rabindranah Tagore Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where...

One of those poems that invites me to appreciate Beauty, and be in the present moment. Listen I want to tell you something. This morning...

I recently purchased the excellent resource "Viniyoga Magazines", that I highly recommend. You can go to viniyogamagazines.com or to...

A beautiful poem by Morgan Harper Nichols, from her book "All Along You Were Blooming". Thanks to Kris for pointing it out to me, and...

Poems arrive in the most interesting ways. This one came to me from a student, who couldn't sleep one night, and turned the radio on....

A dear student mentioned this poem in class a few days ago (thank you for reminding us of this one, Eileen!): Poem 133: The Summer Day...

I am a lifelong student of yoga, and recently enrolled in a program called "Deepen Your Yoga Practice", with Chase Bossart and faculty,...

Toni Goodman shared this poem with us in her Poetry Circle, honoring Linda Pastan, a few days after she died. Toni writes: "Linda Pastan,...

Lately, I have been reading a text by Albert Einstein in my classes, and he says the words "widening our circle of compassion", which...

I often read poetry by John O'Donohue in class, and I love particularly the beginning of this blessing: "May you awaken to the mystery of...

An invisible bird flies over, but casts a quick shadow. What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the...