Falling. Smiling.

“BE PREPARED TO FALL OVER WITH A SMILE.” – J. Brown, yoga teacher, instructing Tree Pose. I’m falling.  Again.  I don’t think I got the job that I wanted.  Or the other one, that I wanted just as much. I’ve been falling a lot since moving five months ago.  I left my beloved hometown of…

Surrender, Recovery and Death

“OUR TIME ON THIS EARTH IS SACRED, AND WE SHOULD CELEBRATE EVERY MOMENT.” ~ Paolo Coelho This morning I am saying goodbye to a treasured DC friend, Sovani Meksvanh. Since before Christmas, I have been posting on my personal and Urban Yoga Den Facebook pages about his battle with late-stage cancer, and how touched I’ve…

Letting Go and Moving On?

Although I did not plan things this way, it’s no fluke that the next New Moon and Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) coincide with my move from DC to TN.  I have been letting go of DC since the last Full Moon.  On Tuesday, September 3rd, I’ll get in my U-Haul, drive south, and let…

Focus: Yoga In Action – Acceptance

This brought me to the good healthy realization that there were plenty of situations left in the world over which I had no personal power… – Bill Wilson, “As Bill Sees It” I’ve just returned from an intentionally slow walk down the hill, to the creek, and back.  I paused to lean against a bridge…

A Jewish Yogini at Midnight Mass

24 December, 2009, 1pm I have Christmas fever!  The spiritual kind, not the shopping kind.  I mean, this is big.  What a beautiful ritual to acknowledge the birth of Jesus – or as Isaiah says, “the wonderful, the counselor, the prince of peace.”  An all around GOOD guy. To me, Jesus represents the ultimate human…