I've been dealing with a serious health challenge in my family for the last couple of months, which has me traveling back and forth across the Atlantic. This is why I haven't written in a while, as other things seem more important at the moment....
Last week I was on a 5-day Silent Meditation Retreat. Besides no talking, there was no reading, no writing, no music, just nothing to distract me from the present moment, other than my own thoughts. I loved it, and hated it. I love being silent,...
There are two kinds of people: those who like to be quiet and those who like to talk. But even some of the people who like to be quiet look at me glass-eyed when I suggest doing a Day of Silence, or even going on...
As the world seems to move faster and faster, fueled by a never ending stream of information that is constantly available through our mobile devices, there is a need to slow down. Even in people's yoga practice - that is intended to relax the body and calm the mind...
“The best advice I can give you is to not resist the schedule” my mom said when I talked to her on the phone while driving up to IMS in Massachusetts for a 4-day silent meditation retreat. And she could know, as she has attended...
I’d like to believe that the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, the United States congress voting for a bill to ban Syrian and Iraqi refugees from the US, and another mass shooting in California earlier this week, happened for a reason. If nothing else, maybe...
In this day and age, yoga seems to be a practice that is all about the ability to get into the most complicated postures and to get a workout in, under the pretense that we are being ‘spiritual’ and are taking care of ourselves. I’m...