Musings on
the Middle Path
Enjoy Eowyn’s Writings about Practice
Mindfulness of Motivations
Mindfulness of motivation involves a deep awareness of the intentions that drive our behaviors. In our journey toward personal growth and well-being, understanding the roots of our actions is paramount.
Compassion – a Practice for Resilience
Winter Solstice Reflections: The beauty and benefits of turning inward.
Breathing for Awareness & Wellness
Often, if you go to a mindfulness meditation class, the guidance will be to allow your breath to be natural. In other words, don’t control it. If you go to a yoga class though, you will likely receive instruction to intentionally lengthen and control your breathing,...
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 Sharon Salzberg. These days, both mindfulness and love, as in compassion or loving kindness, receive significant attention....
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 way, this might sound like a mental leap, to consider how mindfulness practice – the cultivation of awareness that arises from paying...
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 relationships between her different muscles and how they moved was really helping her. Curious about what exactly she was finding beneficial,...
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 discussions with fellow practitioners for years. Folks in MBSR classes, for example, often ask why they are being encouraged to pay...
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 for a week about their experiences of difficulties in ordinary communications. Then, in class, we explore ways that mindfulness...
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 technology. A week or so ago, after many hours of peering at words and images on the screen, I noticed my heart feeling hard and stiff, my...
3 Simple Contentments
During the cold winter months, our woodstove becomes the focal point of our daily rhythms. We stack and carry logs, feed the stove throughout the day, and frequently clean up debris from the kindling. Today, while sweeping, the taste of contentment visited my heart....