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Leap: The Monkey Mind and The Inner Sage Can Walk Together

Posted in choices, creativity, decision-making, stress on January 28, 2012 | 2 Comments »

When we’re in a funk, it can be tough to pick our heads up and re-energize. When we’re down and out, sometimes it feels easier to stay that way. And for a while, I think that’s true. Every once in a while we do have the right to wallow a bit when something doesn’t go [...]

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Beginning: A Weekend of Therapeutic Yoga and a Proposal for You

Posted in health, stress, teaching, yoga, tagged on June 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »

“You are already perfect, whole, and complete. The work we do, the work of yoga, is to remove the obstacles to our own truth.” ~ Cheri Clampett I spent the weekend at Integral Yoga Institute for Cheri Clampett and Arturo Peal‘s Therapeutic Yoga Teacher Training. In the coming weeks, I’ll be sharing a lot about [...]

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Step 339: Take the Stress Out of Togetherness

Posted in holiday, peace, stress, tradition on December 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »

“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” ~ Henry Ford The holiday season brings about a lot of thinking around the importance of togetherness. Why we come together and how much happiness we gain from being part of a community, particularly a community of our own design. Togetherness can [...]

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Step 328: Make Like a Grapevine and Focus

Posted in frustration, nature, strengths, stress on November 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

“A vine, well-exercised, produces an intense wine.” ~ Anthony Bourdain Yesterday I was at my mom’s house watching an episode of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations. I recently finished his book, Kitchen Confidential, and love his bits of life wisdom garnered through his life in food. On yesterday’s episode he was meandering through Provence and all [...]

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Step 259: A Moment, or More, of Rest

Posted in sleep, stress on September 16, 2010 | 4 Comments »

“Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest.” ~ Ashleigh Brilliant I have spun myself out. Stress seems to be everywhere. Yesterday, no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn’t calm down until I got home and collapsed in a heap on my yoga mat. I sank down [...]

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My Year of Hopefulness – Shifting Ground

Posted in change, discovery, stress on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

“A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.” ~ Arthur Golden, from Memoirs of a GeishaLately, my life seems to be a little like an earthquake. I feel like I am always standing on shifting ground. Just when I think I get one part of my life settled, an aftershock throws [...]

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My Year of Hopefulness – Cleansing

Posted in fear, grateful, home, insomnia, nature, sleep, stress, thankful, weather on September 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It’s the middle of the night and I’m having a tough time sleeping. I’ve become accustomed to insomnia as I’ve had it off and on for most of my life. Tonight is a little eerie though. I’m awake because of the wind. It’s keeping me up long past my bedtime. It’s so gusty that as [...]

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My Year of Hopefulness – Just Get to What’s Next

Posted in choices, decision-making, future, stress, success, worry on August 11, 2009 | 4 Comments »

“Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.” ~ Herbert Hoover, 31st U.S. president Today I met with an old friend from college that I haven’t seen in 11 years. She and I worked on a theatre production together at Penn, and she has [...]

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My Year of Hopefulness – Stop the World, I Want to Get Off

Posted in calm, health, meditation, peace, stress, yoga on August 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »

This week has been a roller coaster. My stress level was up and down every other hour, so much so that at one point I was physically dizzy. I was joking with my friend, Denise, who was having a similar week, that my theme song should be “Stop the World, I Want to Get Off.” [...]

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My Year of Hopefulness – The Power of Compartmentalizing

Posted in happiness, health, stress on June 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »

You have to let it go. Breathe. Again. Breathe. This year I have really begun to appreciate the ability to compartmentalize the different areas of my life. It’s not a natural skill I have, though one I have developed over and over again with conscious effort. Some days I am better at it than others. [...]

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