daily isms

I have filled notebooks for years. It’s a sacred practice I continue today, a practice that gives meaning and guidance to my life, a…

How often are you in your head, and can you, instead, reside in your heart or gut, or even your feet? Embodiment, in its simplest sense…

Write first — and I do mean first. Write before email, tv, social media, a book — everything. Writing first gives us the opportunity to…

A compilation of essays around the ancient yogic philosophy contained within the Yoga Sutras

A compilation of stories & practices to help you live an embodied life

+ introducing a new embodied journaling course so you can start your own practice

A human thought, a judgement … used to illustrate a point about the larger life that is here, ever present and all around us

Life gives you plenty of material to write about. Whether mad, sad, full of joy, rage, curious, life is full of surprises and writing…

We are all so much alike, far more alike than different; yet many of us feel alone, isolated, unique in our stories. We are in pain or we…

How often are you going through the motions, and how often are you intentional about the way you’re living? How often are you stuck as…

In our digital age, we’ve moved from everything slow to everything fast; anything and everything we need we can get now: food, news, a new…

I happened upon this statement a few months ago. I’m not sure where, but it attached itself deep in my psyche … “my life is a ritual.” I…

Ever reach the end of the day and wonder where it went? Do you feel exhausted by lunchtime? Or feel like all you do is run around catering…

She moved out on September 4, 2018. I was so mad about how it all went down. She didn’t speak to me for a week and I was scared. A…

You love yoga. You love the way it makes you feel, the way you see yourself through the practice, everything it stands for.

A story about how we project our ‘truths’ onto others

I wrote about lightening the load before I left for California last week. I feel the truth of it more deeply upon my return. Packing only…

Where did that saying come from and why did so many of us buy into it? And if we bought in, what does that mean for our lives?

A Writing Prompt to Try

We create our reality. Every action, inaction, chance, avoidance; it all matters. We set the stage and, in part, the plot of our lives. We…

It seems impossible to feel sad and grateful at the same time, yet those are the two precise emotions I’ve simultaneously carried with me…

Learning to not make life more difficult than it has to be

Pondering Pranayama, the 4th Limb of the Yoga Sutras

Asana is the third limb of yoga, and it translates to comfortable seat, better known as a yoga pose. This is the thirteenth post in a…

Isvara Pranidhana: the last of the Niyamas of the 8 Limbs of Yoga

Svadhyaya: Self Study … the fourth Niyama of the 8 Limbs