Don’t Save It!!

A few months ago, my 9-year old daughter received a fabulous pair of shoes. She hunted these shoes, longed for them, and generally stalked them. Moments after she opened the box, she slipped these pinkalicious sneaker shoes on her hungry feet, a extra spring in her...

Love Yourself!

Who hasn’t heard, “Love your neighbor as you love yourself” ? But if we stopped and thought about it, how many of us really love ourselves well? Perhaps, the truly radical suggestion, the one that would actually pull us out of this struggle, is to...

WHERE’S YOUR SWEET SPOT?

Where’s Your Sweet Spot? “I have so much time on my hands now. I’m actually looking for ways to fill my days”. My dear neighbor, whose children are now grown and in college, mentioned this to me over the weekend. He continued, “The house...

THE FROST IS ON THE BLOOM

“No Way!”, my three kids protested, as I half-heartedly offered them mittens and hats on this cold spring morning. “Okay, then”, I sigh, and console myself with the memory of our pediatrician’s good wisdom about “natural...

Avoid the Detour! TRUST WHAT YOU KNOW

Yoga, as a field, has taken a few strange detours lately—the NYT’s article promoting W. Broad’s book on yoga wrecking bodies, the resignation of the founder of Anusara-yoga under the scrutiny of scandal, a local yoga teacher filming and offering herself to the...