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...

In class we were talking about choice, and when we find a fork in the road, and I of course mentioned the great quote by Yogi Berra:...

My friend Toni Goodman shared this beautiful Mary Oliver poem with us. Thank you Toni, my poetry mentor! Poem of the One World Mary...

We have a wonderful community of engaged people in my online yoga classes, and last Monday one of the students mentioned this poem in the...

Thanks again Mary Oliver! Mindful Mary Oliver Everyday I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me...

I love it when I listen to inspiring songs, with surprisingly (to me) inspiring lyrics as well. One can find inspiration everywhere. This...

I'm looking for short, simple & powerful quotes to read in class. Here are a few more, attributed to Lao Tzu. Which one speaks to you...

My friend Toni Goodman just shared this beautiful poem with us. It arrives right on time to me, in this a much needed world. I hope that it resonates with you. Small Kindnesses. by Danusha Laméris I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you” when someone sneezes, a leftover from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying. And sometimes, when you spill lemons from your

Thank you goodreads.com for these easily available quotes. “Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures....

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and...

Last week I mentioned this quotation in class: "Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet" And here is this beautiful poem by...

"Breathing in, I calm body and mind Breathing out, I smile Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment" - Tich Nhat...

Honoring and thanking Tich Nhat Hanh, I will be borrowing his words during my yoga sessions. I have arrived I am home Listen to Tich Nhat...

It was a joy to get together this morning with my group through Zoom for our Q&A session. One of the questions was about the "goose...

I recently bought the book Clarity & Connection, by Yung Pueblo, and the first thing that I have been doing in the morning is to open it...

“Good girl!” said my dentist, looking at my teeth. I couldn’t help smiling and feeling super proud. She said how well I was doing my...