Sitting just to sit (An ode to mornings, part 2)
https://www.instagram.com/p/Buko2FFn4OH/ This morning I got to sit. My teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh, talks about the pleasure and joy of sitting just to sit. And I don’t think I fully understood this until I became a mother. Or maybe I just appreciate it now on a whole new...
No Mud, No Daffodil: An Ode To Mornings, Part 1
I have always been a morning person, and I miss my mornings. Oh, the days when I was single and living alone with my dog, and I’d wake with the sun and meditate for a half hour, then walk the dog as the world woke...
From Yoga Mat to Peace Studies Classroom
What does it mean to take yoga “off the mat”? For me, it means taking the lessons we learn on our mats — cultivating balance, equanimity, nonviolence and compassion, for instance — and bringing them into our daily lives, allowing them to guide the way we take action in...