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...
Praise and Blame
How can it be that between the end of one class and the beginning of the next so much had changed?
I'd Rather Go to the Dentist
I haven't posted in a while. A few people have asked. Thank you!
Only Connect—Our practice and each other
I’ve been thinking about how we learn and how we sustain our learning. And eventually, how our learning sustains us.
Moments of Mudita
My new rescue pup, Maggie, she needs some Doga; she is feeling pretty stressed out.
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.”
All the wrong shoes. My life as an alien.
A couple of weeks ago I was chatting with a student who had signed up for my February retreat in Costa Rica. She was concerned about what the daily schedule would be like. I told her that we would be starting each day in silence, with meditation and a yoga class before breakfast. Her eyes widened. They might have welled up a little. "I am SO not a morning person!" she said. I could feel her anxiety ratcheting up so I tried to be reassuring....
