Category: Wholebeing

I just moved my clocks ahead. Rather than seeing this as a loss of time, I see it as a stretch towards spring. The weather is still cold and snowy one day, then two days later warm and sunny. I look towards the warrior series to help both stimulate and ground me. Virabhadrasana II is one pose...

I discovered a stack of old yoga journal magazines this past weekend and wanted to make a vision board for a long term project that I have been dreaming about. I struggle with what to do with magazines after I've read them. Throw them out, recycle them, give them to others? I have decided to just...

So if you live in Philadelphia and have been to the Museum of Art you might recognize this painting by Marcel Duchamp. It’s the Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2. Once I heard a seated twist described as your spine opening up like a spiral staircase. This Duchamp painting popped into my head....

We really weren't sure who was coming to dinner. The guests had been invited. The ingredients were all lined up. The cooking had just begun as the guests began to arrive. The guests knew us but did not know each other. As we cooked, each guest, at some point, filtered into the kitchen to help....

In my design life the idiom was that God was in the details. And truly in most good design it is the nuances of the tiny details in the hem of a dress, or the wood trim, or special finish of a surface that truly makes the difference. When these details are ignored you can feel the lack of attention...

Every wonder why the leaves change color in the fall? Or maybe you are one of those people who remember the reason from when you learned it in middle school science class. I had forgotten and got curious about how all these amazing colors emerge in the fall when there was so much green just...

What I love about summer is the freedom. No school, vacations. The patterns of homework and getting things done is interrupted. It feels good. It’s time to lay in the sun, look at the clouds and the sea and just take a breath. Summer may be a favorite season of yours, or not. The beautiful...

Lately I’ve been encountering a lot of friends, colleagues, and students exhibiting signs of the End of Summer Blues. At first they are subtle: short sighs, gazing out windows longingly, squeezing out every minute of spending time in the sun in the evening and looking a bit glum when the sun...

I first learned about letting life unfold with ease at a retreat at Kripau with Sylvia Boorstein, a wonderful meditation teacher. The phrase was part of a metta meditation practice. The practice is a wonderful daily meditation where you say four statements and wishes for yourself, the final one...

Most often yoga is believed to be a series of postures we do to stretch our bodies, find relief from pain and find some relaxation and clarity. Yet the practice of yoga extends to some bigger principles that play out in our lives off the mat. Flexible bodies equate to flexible minds. Knowing where...