Monday, Jan 30, 2023 - Today we focus on support from the back.

Friday, Jan 27, 2023 - We focus on doing practices that open our heart, as well has using imagery to do the same.

Tuesday, Jan 24, 2023 - We'll do some practices to cultivate Love today...even a little is good. :-)

Monday, Dec 19, 2022 - We went and watched the World Cup Final yesterday - so fun! One of the great things about it was being with all the people from different parts of the world, coming together to watch a game. It makes me think there is lots of good in the world...we just might not see it. S...

Friday, Dec 9, 2022 - We talk about the "Gratitude Hall" that my UVM students created, and practice some gratitudes ourselves.

Monday, Nov 21, 2022 - This weekend I finished an online study on Bhakti, which is devotional love. One of the sutras, in part, says "gracious love should be practiced without worry..." For our class today, we'll consider what that means, and enjoy a loving practice. :-)

Friday, Nov 4, 2022 - Today we speak of Bhakti, which is devotional Love.

Friday, Oct. 28, 2022 - To finish up this week of the thinking about the chakras, we will focus on the heart chakra, considering the mantra, "I love and deserve to be loved" - darn right you do. :-)

Friday, Sept. 30, 2022 - Today we think about the power of detaching ourselves from our local reality and world, and opening up to others.

Wednesday - 9.28.22: Today we talk about the Bhagavad Gita and the idea that we have "bright qualities" already inside of us, and one of those is the "study of sacred texts." That could be the Gita, but also anything that makes you feel more in touch with your heart, and a bit brighter.

Tuesday, 9.27.22 - In the "Bhagavad Gita" it takes about our "yogic virtues"...there's a lot of them. The take away is that virtues are already inside. Another translation for the Sanskrit of virtue is "inherent within." We already have peacefulness, patience, kindness, along with a bunch of ot...

Sept 22, 2022 There were a group of Lords that decided to form a social club. At their first meeting they were all excited to be together and then one of them asked where the bartender was to give them a drink. There was no bartender, or dishwasher, or cook, or any non-lords at the club. The L...

Sept 12, 2022 - Today we do a backbend class while we let the thoughts in our mind pass, like leaves floating down and away on a river.

On Jane and my motorcycle trip this summer, we had people tell us various roads we should and shouldn't take. In the end, our own experience was really the thing that mattered, not other people's input. That's true in yoga as well. Your direct experience is what matters most.

August 30, 2022 - After riding a motorcycle around the country for 97 days, I realize that I don't have to come back to what was, I can be something new. Today, we'll focus on letting go of the old and opening to being someone new.

Sometimes Love can feel a bit elusive, and too big to grasp. The thing is, love can be connected through via different derivatives, different avenues, than are accessible. One of those is memory - the act of remembering an experience where you were full of Love. We'll do that today. :-)

Feb 11, 2022 - In reading "Exquisite Love," it mentions all the types of love available. There is love of another person, but there is also love of animals, trees, places, things...there are many, many types of love.

Today we celebrate all the love that is possible!

Feb. 1, 2022 - "Teachings on Bhakti should be reflected on, practices that awaken it should be undertaken." - Sutra #76, Narada Bhakti Sutra

This sutra is one of my favorites. Bhakti is devotional love, but I like to think of it as straight up love. So, according to this sutra, we should spend...

Jan. 17, 2022 - "I've decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear." MLK

Isn't it wonderful to have Martin Luther King Day each year, so we can be reminded to keep working toward a more beautiful world. The above quote I particularly love, because I have tried out hate now an...

Jan. 7, 2022 - There is a meme going around that has two people talking. One person is saying to the other how horrible the upcoming year is going to be, with COVID and politics and the climate crisis and everything horrible. He asks the other person, "What do you think is going to happen in 202...

Dec. 28, 2021 - This is an appropriate moment to look back on 2021 and find the good. Of course, just like every year, there were things that weren't that good...but, I think it's ok to focus on only the good sometimes, to remind yourself there always is good to find. And, maybe you could leav...

Dec. 24, 2021 - Today I was thinking back to when I was a kid at Christmas. I have five older brothers, and we grew up in a big house with high ceilings. For Christmas we would have a huge tree, with tinsel and tons of lights or ornaments. It was total magic.

On Christmas morning all of the b...

Dec. 14, 2021 - Over this weekend I took a plane trip to Colorado, with a stop over in Chicago. Sadly, the plane was delayed in Vermont, and by the time I got to Chicago, it was too late to catch a connecting flight...so I had to spend four extra hours in the Chicago Airport. I figured I'd set...

Dec. 7, 2021 - I am reading a book right now called "The External Mind...The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain." In the chapter I am currently listening to it is talking about the idea of "interoception." As the author describes it, "interoception is nothing more than the feeling of being al...