Composing Compost
Curating compost is necessary for any spiritual growth. Start by taking all the scraps from your kitchen — leftovers from past relationships, sour fruit, rinds from old projects, crusty traumas, rotten ideals and scraps of dreams unfulfilled — and bury them into your heap. It takes a lifetime to build a fertile compost, rich …
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Small Prayer, Big Heart
This is how to make your heart supple. Start by emptying your pockets, leave your pride at the door, and enter the silent space. Sit. Deflate your eyes. Turn them down, so they loosen their grip on the things of the world. Consecrate your chest in awareness, drenching the caverns …
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Feast Today
Feast today on simple things the chalk-colored sky at dawn, the face of a loved one teleported from far away, the newspaper article about the couple that lived 66 years together and then died days apart. Feast on the memories of your father’s broad shoulders and your grandmother’s wrinkled hands, …
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Being with Not-Knowing
One thing you can count on is that you never know. As we approach the end of the year, it dawns on me that I know even less than when the year started. This turns on its head the adage that one grows “older and wiser” with time. Rather, as my …
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Connecting your Mind & Body with the 5 Kosha layers through Yoga
Welcome to a serene exploration of the sacred layers that shape our being—a tranquil journey through the wisdom of healing yoga. The koshas, reminiscent of the gentle rings within a nurturing tree, unfold as a poetic expression of the profound connection between our physical and spiritual selves. In our upcoming …
Read MoreComing of Age in America
We raised our son in the shelter of our Santa Fe community, his school but a mile from our home. He attended a Waldorf school where the early childhood curriculum focuses on imaginative play and fosters in the child “a sense that the world is good”. In 5th grade they …
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The Light Within The Dark
In a time that cracks and splinters everywhere around, when vile men lose their minds in pursuit of gold, oil and fame, when the very ground you walk on trembles from windstorms and earthquakes, when trepidation wakes you at 3AM and your faith in humanity is on trial, you must do the …
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The Samsara of War
In times of war, sorrow courses through our veins and our hearts bleed droplets of grief. In the face of such immense suffering, we are perplexed and deeply saddened. How could people wreak such ruin upon each other? War evokes such existential sorrow as violence, divisiveness, terror and hate perpetuate samsara. …
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Getting Out Of Your Own Way
In the long winding journey on the path of practice, you inevitably come to a place where the best thing to do is get out of your own way. At some point you have to stop engineering your life and allow a force greater than yourself to enter. But how …
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Reading the Text of the Body
It is astonishing how little people read today. These days we read only bits and snippets on the digital screen, mostly on the move, not enough to support deep digestion. When reading is limited to texted fragments, we don’t drop in. When was the last time you curled up on …
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