I got the book "Real Change" some weeks ago, and today I decided to begin to read it. Opening it randomly in one page, I saw this, which...

I have been attending pranayama & meditation sessions with Chase Bossart, who I highly admire, during all the length of the pandemic. One...

I often read a poem in class, and this week I want to read something related to a chant that we have been chanting. One of the...

I hope you will enjoy reading this beautiful poem. It's the one I'll read the next couple weeks in my online yoga classes. About Standing...

Have you ever had a poetry godmother? My friend Toni Goodman is that person to me. Today is the first day I read this poem and love...

I have been listening to talks and meditations that Tara Brach is generously offering through her website, and loved the poem that she...

I just watched a video with Tara Brach, a recommendation from my sister, which I loved. Tara Brach reads part of this poem, by Mary...

Thanks to my dear friend Toni Goodman for sharing this poem with me. We are very close to Valentine's Day, and I feel pretty mixed about...

My dear friend Monica Korde just won the second prize, out of 400 competitors and 1,000 haikus, in the Filoli Winter Haiku Competition...

My dear friend Toni shared this with her Poetry Circle, me included, and I'm planning to read it next week during my online yoga classes....

I love to go back to the beautiful book "Mala of the Heart, 108 Sacred Poems". Here is one by Rumi. Keep walking, though there's no place...

During a mindful yoga practice, we may develop, overtime, an ability to perceive the subtle. Last week I read the poem "You and Art", by...

I received yesterday for my birthday a beautiful book of poems and prose by Morgan Harper Nichols, from a dear friend that I admire very...

A dear teacher shared this a few days ago on social media. Here it is: I voted today. I dropped my heart into the ballot box And cast my...

Loved reading this yesterday: "Peace is every step The shining red sun in my heart. Each flower smiles with me. How green, how fresh all...

For this coming election day's class, I had a request from one of my students to say a poem about Peace and Beauty, here is something...

Every Sunday I prepare an email where I share the poem that I will read the next week to my online groups in class. I had something...

Dear God, please reveal to us your sublime beauty that is everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, so that we will never again feel frightened...

Planning to explore what Love means, this week in class (and all my life), here are these words by Rumi: "I am so small I can barely be...

Two ways to focus our attention, which the ancient yogis had been doing for many years, are the attention to breath, and purposeful...