(listen to the audio version) My heart has been broken a million times, and I’m proud to say it. As I trace my fingers along the scars of my love line – from breakups that lasted longer than the relationships themselves, repeated abandonment, infidelity, divorce, and...
Your body is perfect. Every part of you is divinely given. There are no mistakes in your form. Everything you call a flaw is a point of experience and self-discovery. Your body, the vessel of your spirit, is perfectly imperfect. Let this practice of yoga nidra remind...
For a flower to open, first it must be closed. For you to awaken, first you must sleep. This is nidra for nidra. The practice of yoga nidra (yogic sleep) is not intended to put you to sleep, but it can allow you to enter a state of deep relaxation that many say is...
Sensuality gets us into our bodies. And being in our bodies gets us out of our heads. I remember a time I was hanging on the edge of a proverbial cliff. Everything I thought was stable suddenly was not. Terribly lost, I hiked a nearby mountain. Numb and deflated, I...
This month’s theme in The Nest is surrender. So how could I not offer a yoga nidra practice? Yoga nidra is all about surrender, because when we fall into this state of openness we let go. But what do we let go into? The embrace of the divine. For those of you new to...
My kitchen sink was once the site of my greatest sorrow, but is now home of my redemption. As the evening fills the sky outside, I am often standing in front of a sink full of dishes and a messy house, counting down the minutes until I can do an hour or two of leisure...
As a yoga teacher, I risk being accused of blasphemy by saying this: The power of yoga is not in a group class. The purpose of yoga is to connect with our inner bliss, that god-thing I wrote about last month. Certainly that can be bolstered by a community who...
(audio version below) It seems we have a new tradition in yoga. It sounds like this: You don’t have enough certification to call yourself a yoga teacher. How can you say you’re a yoga teacher when you drive that car? You actually eat meat? You can’t even do...
When we are very hungry, taking only a spoonful of a meal can make us lose our ravenous minds. However, if we know that there is a kitchen full of grandmothers cooking in the old ways, we can be at peace with the pits in our bellies. Because when they are done -- and...
Life is challenging. And it’s easy to become jaded or cynical in the face of struggle. But cynicism is not your true nature, more like a heavy blanket you wrap around you for protection. But what if you could find peace in a different kind of protection? No matter who...
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