When you are tired. When you are overwhelmed. When you have screamed all there is to scream or have swallowed every whimper until silence is all that greets you. When the thing you thought was gone for good shows up with a suitcase. When you are out of ideas and...
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...
Consistency is about showing up as much as it is about not showing up. For four years, I worked for and studied under a teacher of Ayurveda and yoga who was known to be a strict disciplinarian. Her students reported daily at 5:00 a.m. for nearly three hours of...
My grandmother instilled in me a love of homemade pie crust. I remember her apron -- blue and white checked like Dorothy’s dress in The Wizard of Oz -- swinging to the rhythm of her rolling pin as she pressed out the crusts that she would fill with her rich, creamy...
(audio version below) Though I was not raised under any religion, I began praying at a very young age. I would lie in bed and talk to my ceiling before I went to sleep. It was decorated with small glow-in-the-dark stars, so it had the effect of looking up into the...
(audio version below) The first time you scoop a date out of a jar of ghee in which it has been resting, you will feel like a sinner. But go ahead -- pop it into your mouth. Enjoy it with all the bliss that is rightfully yours and claim your place at the table of...
(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...
(audio version below) I once had a conversation with a woman who had spent 15 years as a sex worker. She was the one whom men came to when they could not go to anyone else. You may not think of it like this, but she called her profession therapy. I could have asked...
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...
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