What I hope to hold dear from our recently completed Maui Yoga Retreat is that sense of "Aloha". It has many meanings, and not surprisingly, seems to share a kinship with a word more familiar to yogis: Namasté. There's a sense of seeing each living...
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When I think about New Year's Resolutions, I see the tendency in myself and others to see what's wrong and needs to be fixed ("I'm too_____." or "I"m not _____."). If I accept that my truest deepest nature is basically good, then nothing needs fixing. You may...
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Do you sometimes feel like all you do during the course of a day is chase down little details so you can cross them off your list? Is it possible you are using that busy-mode to procrastinate taking care of the more important questions in...
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As I said earlier, time spent in retreat is beneficial in so many ways. We are often busy tending the needs of our relationships whether that's with family, working colleagues, friendships, pets, or other relationships. To sustain our vital energy, it's important to tend to...
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Time spent in retreat is beneficial in so many ways. We are often busy tending the needs of our relationships whether that's with family, working colleagues, friendships, pets, or other relationships. To sustain our vital energy, it's important to tend to our own personal needs...
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Grandmother's oatmeal was hard to beat. I remember her stirring the big cast iron kettle over a wood stove with a long wooden spoon. It had the perfect texture. Many years later, and I still endeavor to recreate Grandmother's Porridge. My first lesson was that...
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Winter leaves a lot of mud on our flagstone garden paths each year, and every Spring, I get out there with my favorite garden tool and clear the paths of dried mud and fresh weeds, and eventually reveal the garden's true identity. Although, I can...
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As it turns out, doing yoga in sunny Zihuatanejo, Mexico overlooking the beautiful Pacific Ocean every morning can be pretty darn distracting. To be sure, it's a first world problem. But, a problem is still a problem. I challenged myself to reign in my gaze...
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