Barefoot Breathing
“Many of us are blind to the ways that the earth supports us. We seldom even feel our feet on the ground. Take your shoes and socks off, massage your feet, pull your toes apart, play with them. Then...
View ArticleChange Is Possibility
Gazing at the water drops on this leaf there is a sense of capturing an exquisite moment. Yet our experience tells us that in the next moment this will change as everything is always in motion....
View ArticleCherish Yourself Within The Breath
“As you breathe in cherish yourself. As you breathe out cherish all beings.” H.H. The Dalai Lama As 2013 begins we may take a look at our lives to see and feel where we can be more of our authentic...
View ArticleEvery Breath As A Prayer
Often we feel that a prayer comes in the form of something spoken out loud or within, on our knees, sitting in meditation, joining with others in a group, read or written – in other words an action...
View ArticleJust Breathe
How many moments in our day are we not present? How many times do we think of where we want to be instead of where we are right now? Valuing the moment puts us in touch with our bodies, our heart,...
View ArticleA Waste of Breath
How much of our breath is taken up with words of complaint or dissatisfaction? How often are we reacting to life creating our own suffering versus savoring each precious moment? I ask myself these...
View ArticleReturn To Deep Harmony
My recent offering of a class called Decrease Anxiety, Indulge Inner Peace has been an awakening on many levels. Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the United States affecting 40...
View ArticleMagical Breathing Space
Having just returned home from an early evening walk…that magical time when light is fading, birds outlined in the sky heading for their evening resting places, and the sounds of insects everywhere....
View ArticleBreathing Room
These three things that matter can most often be found within another three states: Silence, Stillness and Spaciousness. How our ego puts up a fight against even dipping one single toe into a space...
View ArticleThe Path of Opening
Angel Oak Tree in Angel Oak Park, on Johns Island, Southern Carolina. “The person who breathes deep and easy, who holds minimal tension in the shoulders, who lifts the heart and chest – she/he has a...
View ArticleNon-Separation and the Breath
A few years ago a story of the consciousness of interconnection unfolded right before my eyes. This happened from a place of non-separation, or in other words a real sense of oneness between people...
View ArticleThe Breath Pause Between Ubuntu and Namaste
Ubuntu does indeed feel like a Unity word! Take a moment to feel it as your mouth creates the sounds that bring the word to life. It is flowing, connected and literally feels like a way of life. My...
View ArticleFluidity
Barton Springs, Austin, Texas Fluidity is our natural state of being. With life’s “hits” we often become static, fixed and rigid, wrongly thinking that these states will protect us from whatever is...
View ArticleSweet Chestnuts of Roslin
Reblogged from breathofgreenair: Deep in the old woods of Roslin Valley there live two very ancient tree ents. In the green shaded light of the summer woods you can make out their limbs and faces,...
View ArticleSensuality of Breathing
“Are you breathing just a little and calling it life?” Mary Oliver “If you try to comprehend air before breathing it, you will die.” Mark Nepo in The Book of Awakening Following this quote by Mark...
View ArticleDrink In The Breath
Image by Louie Schwartzberg Drink in the magnificent world that has been given to you. Take a full breath and know that this very inspiration could be the one that the Amazon rain forest, or the tree...
View ArticleEmbodied Samadhi
Image by Alex Gray I was being asked to “drop the body” and I felt rebellion brewing up under the surface. The well meaning yoga teacher was attempting to point out the many ways in which we contract...
View ArticleFreedom Is The Oxygen of The Soul
“Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. “ Moshe Dayan “Did you know that you aren’t really breathing? It is the planet’s atmospheric pressure that sends breath into the body. With the process we call...
View ArticleBreath Taking Flight
Have you ever simply watched and felt a bird taking flight….being present to every nuance of wing, body, air, sound….those precious moments just before the launch? Swept with awe at this natural way...
View ArticleTornados and Rainbows
This nature choreographed pas de deux may never be captured again. The glimmering light colors of a rainbow are always changing requesting our attention to beauty. Do we perceive that in the moment,...
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