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Celebrate Mother’s Day with Love and Nourishment: 6 Heartfelt Recipes and Practices

Mother’s Day is a time to honor and celebrate the incredible women who have shaped our lives with their love, wisdom, and nurturing presence. This year, why not show your appreciation by treating the special mothers and mother figures in your life to a heartfelt combination of nourishing recipes and …

Be Present, Be Absent

Today there is lots of talk about being present. You can find Be Present on the side of yoga pants, as a decal on coffee mugs and on the bumper sticker of your neighbor’s car. You could spend hours watching You Tube clips and Ted Talks on how to be …

Trusting the Way

How do we trust in a life that is inherently unpredictable, one that leads to inevitable suffering and certain death? Trust, or faith in what is, is hard to come by these days. “The state of this country is the worst I’ve ever seen it,” said the woman in Pennsylvania …

Earth Day Offering

The one source that brings us together, beyond our private preferences and our cultural and political divisions, is the earth we walk on. It is the very source of our living breath, our blood, and the calcium matrix within our bones. This day is a day to celebrate and cherish …

The Yoga of Relationship

This month Surya and I celebrate our 24th wedding anniversary. Like a yoga practice, a marriage is continuously expanding and contracting, lifting up and weighing down. Being married is something like riding a horse. Sometimes you trot forward and other times stall in place. Living together for many moons, the …

The Magic of Yoga

As the days go by, yoga practice gets easier and easier. Not yoga as union of mind and body or a kind of fully realized state of being, but yoga as sorcery or magic. Magical display is one of the oldest definitions of yoga, known as maya or illusion. This …

Don’t Push the River

The path of practice is a long and arduous journey. And while we are all born, it takes many years to fully incarnate. It begins when we leave the aquatic interior of the uterine cave, impelled to breathe air, stand on two legs, and speak in a foreign tongue. At the start, …

In the Blood of Christ Mountains

This Easter morning I climb a scraggly rock strewn hill on the outskirts of the city of Holy Faith. I pick my way through prickly pear cactus and sharp volcanic cinders. At the top is a crooked white cross which, at the mercy of the fierce desert wind, has tilted heavily to the side. In the high …

The Yoga of Caring for an Aging Parent

I spent this week caring for my 88 year old mother. It is astonishing how the end of life resembles the beginning. In the car to the Whole Foods mom asks again and again, “How far away are we?” Like the width of her shoulders, her world has shrunken down to …

The Spell of the Shell

Convinced that we are separate, as if cast under a spell, we bump around blindly in this life-time, unable to see beyond the end of our noses. The spell is mesmerizing, hypnotic and leaves us in a kind of stupor. The Japanese poet Shuho alluded to the totality of the trance in this verse: “cicada shell/little did I know/it was …

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Celebrate Mother’s Day with Love and Nourishment: 6 Heartfelt Recipes and Practices

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Be Present, Be Absent

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Trusting the Way

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Earth Day Offering

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The Yoga of Relationship

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The Magic of Yoga

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Don’t Push the River

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In the Blood of Christ Mountains

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The Yoga of Caring for an Aging Parent

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The Spell of the Shell

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