Back in the day, I blogged a bit. I hope you enjoy some of these musings below. Since 2019, and my step away from social media, I have instead shared my personal and practice-related writing via an occasional newsletter, for which you can sign up at the bottom of the page. If you have any questions or suggestions, please write and say hello here. I’d love to hear from you!
The Cherry Practice
It is a late April ritual; visiting the cherry blossoms at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. I’ve walked here with husbands, lovers, friends, and my daughter at almost every age. This year I am alone...
The World in Us
Many of us urban meditators long to take to our cushions in a quiet place. This in fact was one of the inspirations for a yoga and meditation retreat that my friend Linda Sparrowe and I recently led in the rainforest of Costa Rica.On the first day as we were chatting with Tom Newmark, the founder of Finca Luna Nueva, the bio-sustainable farm and research center to which we had brought our group, he mentioned that his greatest difficulty with the city was it was too darn quiet! “You’ll see,” he smiled raising his eyebrows; “it is noisy here, very noisy.”
