Posted in adventure, choices, goals, yoga, tagged postaday2011 on June 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
“Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ~ Rumi via Daily Good By nature, I am a goal driven person. I put a big, audacious, ambitious goal out into the universe and then I work like heck to [...]
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Posted in family, feelings, forgiveness, growth, tagged postaday2011 on June 29, 2011 | 5 Comments »
“When you feel pain, question it. Why is it there and how can we heal it? The body wants to heal.” ~ Cheri Clampett In the last few weeks, there has been an opening. A pain that’s been hidden, so deep for so long, refused to lay down any longer. It had to bubble up [...]
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Posted in choices, decision-making, faith, family, tagged postaday2011 on June 28, 2011 | 12 Comments »
“If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.” ~ Pearl Buck Searching yesterday is valuable, difficult work. I take it on every day because I believe so fully in the process of continuous improvement. I know and accept that I am not perfect, that I will never be perfect, and that there [...]
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Posted in military, war, yoga on June 27, 2011 | 6 Comments »
“The Bhagavad Gita’s subject is the war within, the struggle for self-mastery that every human being must wage if he or she is to emerge from life victorious.” ~ Eknath Easwaran “We prepare soldiers for war. We train them to kill. Why don’t we also prepare them for peace and train them to stop killing?” [...]
Posted in choices, clarity, yoga, tagged postaday2011 on June 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
To move a project forward, focus is necessary. You can’t know what beat to march to unless you can hear the drum. Without at least a general idea of where to go, a lot of effort is spent wandering around aimlessly. I’m an efficiency junky and I hate wasting time, or worse yet having someone [...]
Posted in business, yoga, tagged postaday2011 on June 25, 2011 | 12 Comments »
“The journey of a thousand miles begins beneath one’s feet.” ~ Lao-tzu, Chinese philosopher Tucked away on a quiet section of East 11th Street, there’s literally a tower of healing. Formerly the St. Denis Hotel, 80 East 11th Street is home to private practice wellness practitioners, now including Compass Yoga. I’ll be teaching yoga private [...]
This week I had to make the tough decision to let go of the idea of submitting to speak for a second time at SXSW. I had an incredible experience in March speaking about the topic of yoga and creative focusand teaching yoga to SXSW conference participants. The people at SXSW are inspiring and generous. [...]
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Posted in community service, health, healthcare, wellness, yoga, tagged postaday2011 on June 23, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I remember watching the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 from my couch. It was two days after my birthday and I was sitting in my living room with my sister, Weez. Our eyes were fixed on the television, silent. It was that moment in which I began to turn my attention toward trying [...]
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Posted in New York City, yoga, tagged postaday2011 on June 22, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I welcomed the long days of the year by wrapping up what felt like a too-long day in the middle of Times Square. Douglass Stewart taught a yoga class right in the heart of it all. He helped us to focus on how to feel a part of all of that energy without letting it [...]
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Posted in family, future, history, peace, story, writing, tagged postaday2011 on June 21, 2011 | 12 Comments »
“Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love We run from the imperfect. We want everything to be flawless. We praise beauty; we seek it out; we convince ourselves that we can’t live without it. Ruin is something we have come to dread. To feel [...]
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