Musings on
the Middle Path

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 “the ideal of pure awareness,” it forms the foundation from which practice grows. Recently, we've been exploring the topic in the...

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 period, a hundred days, and this past autumn I had the good fortune to spend nearly seven weeks in the quiet. This might seem like a...

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. We took a two-week vacation that involved flying to Arizona and camping at the Grand Canyon with some dear friends. As many of you...

A friend recently sent me a beautiful card with the phrase, "Change... the only constant" under a picture of ocean water washing over stones and sand on the seashore. Together, the image and the phrase shared so much. The words, a simple platitude, caused me to see...

Here is a simple set of movements and a couple of yoga positions to help you maintain and grow your physical ability to balance.

Recorded at the Listening Wellness Center in our lovely second floor multi-purpose space, this video offers a simple demonstration of the Sun Salutation with the adaptive support of a chair. Intended to help you discoever a holistic movement and breath practice in a...

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...