As I write, the rain has just stopped and the world around our house appears vibrantly green and lush. Every living thing bursts upward and outward with springtime energy - somehow, the plants and animals know to grow! As the hummingbirds arrive at the feeder for the...
Our first, hopefully of many, YouTube video is a short set of movements to prepare the body for sitting meditation, right in your chair! It can also provide a great way to de-stress from working at a desk, in just 7 minutes or so. Enjoy! (and thank you to Brett, my...
I understand that today is national poem-in-your-pocket day. So this feels timely, though it will have to go in your virtual pocket. I've recently started writing Lunes. Yup, Lunes, no matter how much the auto keyboard wants it to be lines (although, it's those...
A few years ago, while I was teaching yoga for a monastic retreat at IMS with Ayya Anandabodhi and Ayya Santacitta, the three of us went for a walk together. Somewhere along the way, in the natural course of getting to know each other, Ayya Ananda Bodhi asked me what...
Here is a poem I wrote shortly after spending more than 100 days in silent retreat last fall and winter. Poems about spiritual practice often seem to well up out of me toward the end of or just after retreat. Hope you enjoy it! Mystery of Patterns and Shapes A simple,...