April 2, 2021 - Since Sunday is Easter, I am reminded of my childhood and how we celebrated. I have 5 brothers, and we would get up in the morning and stand in line (in order of birth) at the bottom of the stairs that went up to our living room. We could hear my Dad upstairs hiding the “eggs”, w...

April 9, 2021 - The practice of yoga isn’t just doing postures…it’s doing any practice or practices that create a connection for you to an experience of the feeling that there is more. That might be looking at the stars…which were amazing last night. Or reading a great poem. But, if you are go...

4.15.21 - I love riding my new electric bicycle! I have a nearly 30 mile round trip round to work and back to UVM, and I average 22 miles per hour…sometimes getting up to 40 mph on downhills. So fun!

Riding my bike really reminds myself of myself. It used to only have a bike until I was 30, b...

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 8, 2021 - Something I’ve always appreciated about the yoga philosophy is the idea that we have vast goodness, light, and positivity within us. We are born with it, and it doesn’t go away. We just have to remember that it is there, believe in it and share it.

I hope you will shine your br...

April 28, 2021 - I was thinking about approaching conversation and connection to others from the point of view of learning something from the interaction, rather than getting your point across. I grew in a family, maybe like most, where being right was the important thing, not necessarily being ...

April 16, 2021 - The breath is probably the simplest method we have to remind ourselves that we are part of something bigger. The idea that if we deeply connect to the breath, we also connect to something much bigger than ourselves. I really love that.

I really like this section from one of th...

April 30, 2021 - I have been having some pain in the neck and left shoulder on and off for maybe 20 years or so. It’s been one of those things that comes and goes…most of that time on the “goes” end of the scale. But, lately it’s been pretty consistent so I decided some intervention would be a go...

April 21, 2021 - Today is a good day to practice the Loving Kindness meditation.

April 22, 2021

I fluctuate a bit between doing things for the experience of doing them, and doing things because I’m looking for some sort of result or positive feedback from my actions. It’s hard to do things for the sheer experience of doing them, without having desire for a particular outcom...

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 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 ...

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...

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 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...