There’s a reason I often sign my letters and emails with:Blue skies,Michele The wide open blue sky reminds me of our true nature and 9 times out of 10, allows me to take a deep breath and actually relax. Yesterday I was stressing. I was dealing with the IRS, Health Insurance and kid issues. The…
Most of you know that I am a busy girl. Life seems to always be in full session and my schedule is booked around the clock. The gift (or one of them), that I have been given in this life, is that I teach yoga. This automatically builds yoga into each and every day. Every…
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anais Nin I have reached several points in my life when this quote has hit me like a ton of bricks. Change is scary. The unknown is scary. And so, we stay…
I am sitting in bed, sick and under the weather, and feeling oddly grateful. A dear friend just dropped off blueberry scones and I got a little teared up by the kind act. Now, I am mindfully eating this lovely scone, sipping some sweet orange and chamomile tea and thinking about my amazing mentor teacher,…
“If you seek peace, be still. If you seek wisdom, be silent. If you seek love, be yourself.” – Becca Lee When I experience peace, wisdom or love, it is because I have moved beyond my mind that can hook into things like ego and fear (False Evidence Appearing Real). I have moved through my…
“There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not…
The feeling of anxiety or even feeling a bit “off center” can produce issues ranging from distraction and irritability, to wanting to crawl out of our skin or just run away and hide. If you’ve experienced these feelings, you know how challenging they can be and the bumpy road they can lead us down. Essentially,…
19th century poet Gerard Manley Hopkins called our inner terrain an ‘Inscape.’ We are taught in school how to grow a seed, to tend to things, quite literally, in our outer landscape.It usually isn’t until much later in life that we are fortunate enough to learn how to tend to what is inside of us……