August 3, 2021 - Maybe the thing I like most about practicing yoga is the experience of being present with myself. Noticing physical, mental and emotional sensations and changes. Recognizing how, even in a couple minutes, I go through a lot of thoughts and feelings. For some reason it just feels...

July 26, 2021 - This weekend felt something like what a world beyond COVID would be like. I hung out with friends for a brunch, went with another friend to listen to some music, went for a motorcycle ride, and even did some kayaking — it was a great weekend!

It really felt like SUMMER, and findi...

July 8, 2021 - I am someone who prefers to be happy, and then when I’m not I’m disappointed or judge myself for it. I’m pretty sure I’m not alone in this…I think everyone has a desire to be happy. Something I love about the yoga philosophy is that it teaches that it’s ok if you aren’t happy eve...

July 22, 2021 - Yesterday I was feeling super positive and good. I just really felt upbeat and alive and “Yay”! I went to my favorite coffee shop in town and started journaling about the reasons that might be impacting my good feelings. I wrote that I have been getting enough sleep, I’ve been e...

April 13, 2021 - This weekend I finished the Yoga Teacher Training program I direct at UVM. This was the 9th year, and definitely the most challenging because of COVID. I had a profound experience on our graduation ceremony day, where we had a picnic dinner outside after our graduation, and I r...

June 10, 2021 - I’ve been teaching morning classes every weekday on Zoom since March of 2020. I don’t know if I’ve ever done anything so consistently for such a long period. It being on Zoom makes it a lot easier - no struggle with getting myself to a studio…I just need to get myself to my livin...

April 1, 2021 - Yesterday I got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine! Boom..one and done! I was simultaneously euphoric with a feeling like I had super powers, and also feeling empathy for those who haven’t yet been vaccinated, particularly those in places were they experience a lot of exposure. I d...

April 29, 2021 - Yesterday I had some of the students in my meditation class each lead a 10-minute meditation. I asked them a couple days ago to come up with something, and the first 4 people went yesterday. I honestly was thinking they would do something from a book, or something exactly like ...

June 9, 2021 - I started listening to a new book called “Noise.” I’ve just started in on it, but so far so good - it’s really interesting. The general premise of the book is that we all experience “noise” in our lives that effects how we act. It might be the heat, how much exercise we’ve had, if...

June 4, 2021 - After focusing on the breath yesterday, I wanted to keep going with the breath today. There is a method of breathing called Viloma "A" Breath, or more understandably, Interrupted Inhalation Breathing.

How it works is you Inhale 1/3 of the way, hold, inhale another 1/3, hold, inha...

May 12, 2021 - Yesterday was my last day of teaching at UVM for the semester. I taught 8 classes, some of them two days/week…making for a grand total of 19 classes I was teaching per week, along with running the UVM Yoga Teacher Training. Students gave me comments like, “I learned to take care o...

June 7, 2021 - On Friday Jane and I and some friends went to Backside 405 in Burlington for what we thought was a DJ dance party. As it turned it, the 2nd half of the evening was a DJ dance party, but the first half was a Drag Show. It was awesome!

Lots of fake and real breasts, dancing, Cher,...

March 31, 2021 - I listened to a podcast last night, while not being about to sleep, from On Being. The episode is entitled, “What’s Happening in Our Nervous System?” The show was all about the fact that we have been living in a true state of trauma over the last year because of COVID, and tha...

May 24, 2021 - I was sick last Friday and in bed all day. That was after teaching at UVM for a full school year and being healthy every day. I think the sickness was my body telling me it was time to take a day off and not do anything. I realized I hadn't really taken a break to do nothing in ...

April 27, 2021 - In the Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna (the warrior) is telling Krishna (God) that he doesn’t want to participate in a battle that is about to take this…thinking that has inaction will somehow have no consequences, but the act of war will have consequences. Krishna, in all his wisdom, say...

April 26, 2021 - Right now it is heading toward to the end of the semester at UVM...but we are still in this semester. And, what a semester, and whole school year, it's been for everyone!

Like most people, I'm ready to move on from it all...we are in this period of not being done with the last ...

April 6, 2021 - Yesterday morning I was walking across the UVM campus feeling a bit stressed, thinking about things like COVID and other heavy thoughts. As I was walking, looking down at the sidewalk, I came across a chalked message that said, “We love you.” It instantly made me smile. I looke...

May 19, 2021 - This morning I was savoring the incredible beauty of where I live. I was sitting on my back porch looking out at my back yard and the view I have. I live in a condo up on a hill and have an amazing southern view. I get to see the full sunrise over the Green Mountains every night, ...

July 5, 2021 - A good day to breathe.

May 17, 2021 — I like this segment of a sutra from the Radiance Sutras:

“Seek always the intimate joy
Of your original Self,
And move through this world in freedom.”

Nice way to start the day. :-)

May 14, 2021 - Yesterday I was at the new City Hall Park in Burlington. There is a new fountain, grass, places to sit, walkways...it's totally great. I sat there with my dog, Dewey, and we both watched as the world went by. We enjoyed the kids playing in the fountain, people meeting for the fir...

June 3, 2021 - I got a haircut! It was amazing to go to my barber, who I haven’t seen in 15 months, and have it feel “normal”. Every day is another experience of seeing that we are close to the other side of COVID, at least in Vermont, and it’s amazing. In class we celebrate being illuminated ...

July 1, 2021 - In yesterday's class I talked about focusing the mind and letting the body do it's own thing...today, let's do that opposite and enjoy really connecting to the body, and not worrying about the mind, shall we. :-)

And, I teach these classes classes LIVE Monday-Friday morning from ...

May 13, 2021 - In the Yoga Teacher Training that in direct at the University of Vermont, our moto is “First, See the Good.” What I love about it is that it implies that there is always good. No matter what is happening, you can look around and see something that’s great. Yay. :-)

What I have...