Forgiveness is a contentious topic. Even the world's most longest-standing wisdom traditions don't agree on the who, what, how of...

Tenderness. Love. Joy. Times when our heart just melts; it’s almost painful to experience the heart-felt emotions, the heart becomes...

About aparigraha, one of the 5 yama of yoga. This is our monthly topic for May. We use monthly topics to explore yoga in everyday life.

The practice of yoga is a practice of connection. Whether our practice centers around movement, breath, meditation...

Abundant life is returning to nature all around us. It’s showing up with the early flowers, the faint color of the buds on the trees and...

Have you heard of the term "performative posting," or "performative giving"? The idea is that we are showing what we're doing, so that...

Life is complicated. Time is limited. Managing my needs, the needs of those I love, my community, our planet. It seems to go on and on...

While I don't always find telling the truth to be a challenging concept, being with the truth (satya) can always bump up the work to a...

We all struggle. We all have pain. My “normal” way of moving through life is to ignore my pain and push on, to push through. Who hasn’t …

When faced with the harm that is done every day in this world, it can be overwhelming to consider. I know I often feel frustration, fear...

For a while now, I’ve noticed that I want to focus on the good things in life and pretend that the bad doesn’t exist. It’s not part of...

Our topic this month is witness, or wisdom presence (vjanamaya kosha). The term witness here refers to the kosha model of the human...

Often when we think of meditation, the expectation is that it is quiet and blissful and filled with peace. But, since many of us are...

We are so very excited to welcome Rachel and Steve's new baby into the world! Baby arrived on Friday, Oct 29 at 3.58am, at 9.6 lbs and 22...

Our topic this month is will. The way this is showing up for me right now, is in the arena of boundary setting, and holding. Now, I'm...

Cultivating spaciousness to combat concentration in meditation.

Our topic this month is trust. Trust is what is needed when we make changes. The bigger the change, the more that a leap-of-faith may be...

As I sit here, waiting for the heat to descend upon Portland, I am reminded of other heated times of late. Particularly heated...

I've recently been thinking about a couple of situations that seem like they could be managed more skillfully, next time. The first was...

I was teaching a yoga class recently when I asked the students to move from a standing position to a seated position. As I moved myself...