The Synergies between Mindfulness and Loving-kindness
“The starting place for a radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness,” according to renowned author and pioneering meditation teacher...
with Éowyn Ahlstrom, M.Ed., LMT, RYT
Awake in Complexity
I've been thinking lately about how practicing mindful awareness supports me in handling the many complexities of modern living. In a...
The Many Learnings of Mindful Yoga
Recently, at the end of a mindful yoga session, a student stopped on her way out of class to tell me that directly feeling the...
Mindful Yoga: Toward Inner Intimacy
What is mindful yoga (or any kind of mindful movement) all about? I have been contemplating this question through practice and in...
Difficult Conversations
Perhaps many in this forum can recall the “Communications Calendar” from the MBSR course in which participants write a few words each day...
Embodied Computing
Recently, I’ve been spending a lot of time at the computer, working on projects that depend on the many amazing powers of modern...
3 Simple Contentments
1 During the cold winter months, our woodstove becomes the focal point of our daily rhythms. We stack and carry logs, feed the stove...
Always A Choice; Never in Control
Recently, I spent some time in silent retreat and, as is often the case for me, came away with a phrase that encapsulates the theme life...
Practicing with Paradox
Years ago, a wise teacher shared with me that what she found herself most appreciating through her decades of mindfulness practice was...
Poetry and Science: My Course Correction
Today I’d like to exhale long and offer you all a poem. It’s one that I wrote, which is the reason for that long out-breath. Sharing from...
Living the Practice of Self-Study
One of the key tenets of Patanjali's yoga sutra is the notion of self-study. Together with devotion to what Chip Hartranft translates as...
Contemplations from Retreat
As many of you know, each year over the past dozen years or so, I have spent a month or more in silent retreat. 2013 was the longest...
Rocks, Pebbles and Sand
How To Do What's Really Important aka Put the Big Rocks in First This summer, my husband, Brett, and I did something we don't often do....
Living Change
A friend recently sent me a beautiful card with the phrase, "Change... the only constant" under a picture of ocean water washing over...
Balance Practice
Here is a simple set of movements and a couple of yoga positions to help you maintain and grow your physical ability to balance....
Sun Salutations with a Chair
Recorded at the Listening Wellness Center in our lovely second floor multi-purpose space, this video offers a simple demonstration of the...
"A Realm of One's Being"
As I write, the rain has just stopped and the world around our house appears vibrantly green and lush. Every living thing bursts upward...
Chair Yoga for Meditation
Our first, hopefully of many, YouTube video is a short set of movements to prepare the body for sitting meditation, right in your chair!...
Lunes
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...
Integrating It All
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...