March 2, 2021 - I am feeling a lot of hope. There are more COVID vaccines available. Every day is literally getting brighter. I decided I should look into what the word “hope” actually is. Here is something I found on Wikipedia:
“Hope is an optimistic state of mind that is based on an expect...
Mar 3, 2021 - The is a sutra from the Radiance Sutras that says, in part, "The journey begins here, with with whatever is capturing your attention." A reminder that wherever you are in your mind, body, or heart, that's a good place to start your practice. :-)
Mar. 4, 2021 - The cool thing about the mind is you can change it. One way is to recognize when you are having thoughts that are negative, or viewing things in a negative way, and doing your best to find the positive instead. That's a practice I work on, sometimes with success, sometimes not, b...
Mar. 8, 2021 - It's amazing to me how easy I can be to loose my grounding and sense of place. I would think I'd be batter at it, but, it's a work in progress. What's great is to have yoga to keep brining me back to myself, and reminding me of ME.
Doing a practice focused on the feet and legs i...
March 10, 2021 - The breath is this wonderful thing that not only keeps us alive, but also calms us down, and gives us a great thing to focus on as a meditation. Let's do all of that today. :-)
Mar. 9, 2021 - I teach yoga and meditation classes at UVM, and at the end of class I have people come up to me to tell me their names. With masks, I have an impossible time recognizing people, and having them tell me their names has the added bonus of having a short conversation. Yesterday, th...
Mar. 11, 2021 - If you want to do an enthusiastically positive yoga class, this is it! I'm just super amped about life, Canada, travel, being together in groups. There are things to look forward to...let's enthusiastically get on it and starting getting excited and recognize there actually is a...
Mar. 17, 2021 - Today I'm thinking about the fact the we are entering the 2nd year of living in COVID...so let's make the 2nd year better than the first. Since the future is now more clear, it's fun to think about how we want to be, particularly with our mental, physical, and emotional health. ...
Mar. 18, 2021 - We are all going through life seeing things the way we do because of our own experiences. It's a good practice to be open to the fact that other people have had other experiences...so, maybe they see things differently. :-)
Mar. 19, 2021 - OK…here’s something for you to do as you read this — come up with one thing you would like to change in your life. One little thing. Something that would be fun and easy. And then commit to sticking to that change for one year. This isn’t some big Earth shattering change, but ...
March 23, 2021 - I took my students in my meditation classes at UVM for a “meditative walk” yesterday. We left our phones inside, and silently we walked around campus for about 40 minutes, taking it all in. At the end we sat down on the grass and I asked everybody to share anything they wanted ...
March 24, 2021 - A friend of mine sent out a group email to some friends that said, “I decided to look online to find conspiracy theories on the COVID vaccine.” And, sure enough, he did…and now he wanted us all to know he won’t get vaccinated.
I am reading a book right now called, “A More Beaut...
March 26, 2021 - Yesterday was my birthday, and I didn’t have any plans to tell anybody besides people who already knew. I just didn’t really feel like sharing it. But, I went to Barrio to get myself a chocolate croissant as a special treat, and some iced coffee. I had a wonderful time sitting ...
March 25, 2021
In 1990 Hungarian biochemist Katalin Kariko was looking for funding for an idea she had for a new vaccine. She didn’t get any funding. She kept trying…being rejected 80 times in search of funding. Finally, she found funding after searching for five years, in 1995. This year, she ...
March 30, 2021 - The other day I went outside to the wonderful smell of SPRING. I had to tell Jane to come outside and smell it, too. I love the smell of Spring. I don’t know if it’s because it represents the coming of brighter, longer, warmer days…or, it just is a great smell. Either way, ri...
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...
