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Part One: The Inhale
The breath is the bridge between the mind and body. If our mind is racing, our breath is usually short and shallow. If our mind is relaxed, our breath is usually slow and more into the belly. By working with the breath, we can change the mind state.I want...
Reflections from my Meditation Facilitator Training Course
In this week back from India, going through so many delays with traveling back home, weather conditions, and jet lag, I've be surprised how I've been able to stay relatively more calm and even. The past few weeks in India at the meditation course have been...
Meditation as a way of life
Many years ago, when I heard the word 'meditation' I would think of being able to sit still for hours with an empty mind in a state of bliss. With this expectation I was doomed to come to the conclusion "I can't do this" and "there must be something wrong with...
The Importance of Commitment on the Spiritual Path
Man, is life full of distractions. I'm reminded of this constantly with my cell phone. There's something that pops up in my mind and I get on my phone to Google the question, when I notice I have some new emails. I stop to look at those and there's an...
Applying Ground Hog Day to How You Treat Yourself
I was thinking about February and Groundhogs Day popped into my head as it's February 1st...then I remembered Bill Murray's Movie, "Groundhog Day," I started to think about the patterns that I have worked on over the years. To me, the concept of the movie is in...
Health and Well-being is a Process Not an End Point
I've mentioned in the past that a health area I've been dealing with consistently over the past year now is sudden hearing loss and tinnitus. It effects my right ear, actually started about almost five years ago, with major changes happening in September 2017...
Vishnu Mudra, why it is used in Anuloma-Viloma or Nadi Shodhana
I facilitated a wonderful group at the Avon Library this week at the Breath Workshop. One of the questions that came up, which has come up in past Breath Workshops, is why do we use Vishnu Mudra? I have continued to search for the answer and I am excited...
Non-Attachment in giving and receiving
The holiday season and end of the year is filled with giving in so many forms. The Yama, Aparigraha or Non-Attachment, is a reminder to focus on our state of mind as we give. So much of the holiday season is about the external: gifts, food, parties, and...
Finding peace in a fear based world
As November begins, it is the month in the USA that we celebrate giving thanks, being grateful for all that we have and the people who are in our lives. It is more important than ever to keep this practice going all year long as our culture has moved more and...
The practice of Aparigraha or non-attachment
"Anger is like a holding a hot coal, the only one that gets burned is you."This quote speaks to Aparigraha, one of the Yamas from Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, an ethical principle of yoga. Aparigraha means non-attachment or non-holding. Our attachment or...