Breath Teaches Us How to Live, Love, and Die Well: Yoga Life Lessons

Breath Teaches Us How to Live, Love, and Die Well: Yoga Life Lessons

Hi Fabulous!  I hope you’re having a wonderful day and are blessed by this offering. America has a breathing problem.  All inhale, all the time.  Our competitive consumer culture urges us to ONLY inhale, in that we’re all about acquiring, climbing, and winning.  You...

Be the Reason Someone Smiles Today

Do you ever wonder if what you do matters?  Or even how much YOU matter?  I know I do!  With that in mind, at the beginning of my yoga classes, I gift each student with an inspirational sticky note to encourage her/him.  They have sayings like “Be a warrior, not...

Drama for Your Momma

As my body gets older, some things don’t work like they used to.  Remember the movie “Failure to Launch”?  You know how after things go poorly in a given endeavor a couple of times, it’s super easy to get in your head about it?  Thought bubbles...

A Snow Storm’s Life Lessons

As we’ve been enjoying a fun flurry of snow storms, Lisa and I noted the calming affect snow has on everything.  It’s like a massive collective “HA”, which fills your heart with a sense that all is well and all will be well.  Not long after...
Choosing Joy/Stubborn Gladness

Choosing Joy/Stubborn Gladness

Sorrow everywhere.  Slaughter everywhere.  If babies are not starving someplace, they are starving Somewhere else. With flies in their nostrils.   Thus begins Jack Gilbert’s hope-filled and realistic poem “A Brief for the Defense”.  The very next words continue...