We are at a new beginning, a new year, and lots of us make New Year’s resolutions to make our lives a little better. Yoga classes,  gyms...

“The mind creates the abyss and the heart crosses it.” ~Tara Brach Tara Brach, psychologist, and spiritual guide, describes what causes a...

As we brace for autumn’s chill and bask in autumn’s beauty, we may also feel the grief that often arises in this season. Watch the leaves...

Henry David Thoreau said that the eye is the jewel of the body. Our anatomy seems to agree. A Yoga Journal article, Insight for Sore...

Most of us are familiar with the Serenity Prayer, commonly associated with AA and other recovery programs: God, grant me the serenity to...

To everything, there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven. Ecclesiastes 3 Twenty-two hundred years ago Patanjali wrote...

I love harmony. I love it so much it is hard for me to face the disharmony in my life. When it comes to personal disagreements, my...

This week’s theme is about flexibility and change. It relates to how our brain is wired. Dr. Dan Siegal shows how to use your hand as a...

In yoga this week we will have a special focus on the psoas muscle, one of the strongest muscles of the human body. The psoas connects...

A Peanuts cartoon from decades ago has stayed with me. It went something like this: In the first frame, Charlie Brown is in a slumped...

This week we will focus on toning the vagus nerve. This description about the vagus nerve below will be a review for some of you: We have...

Nature is designed to be resilient. Fall comes and the leaves are gone for the winter. But as the days get longer and the temperature...

Here we are at the spring equinox, where there is nearly a balance between light and dark. In yoga this week we will focus on static...

Even though it doesn't seem like it today, spring has been coming early this year. The flowering trees are already blooming; the...

I arrived home from southern India last Wednesday evening after two weeks of visiting my son-in-law’s family and friends there. I was...

I’m curious. Does raising my shoulders cause me to be tense or does my tension cause me to raise my shoulders? Or is it both or something...

The 1/31/23 Health & Science section of the Washington Post had an article about balance. Michele Stanten, the author, states that one in...

This week we will continue with yoga and energy work to keep our bodies, minds, and spirits well for as long as possible. In her book...

This week’s class is about aging well. Donna Eden, an energy medicine pioneer, says, “the goal is to die young, as old as you possibly...

We are coming up to the beautiful 6th chakra this week. The 6th chakra, also known as the third eye or the ajna chakra, is located...