First Chakra – Root & Tribe Carried by our legs and feet – the bones, muscle, fluids, joints, and connective tissue – the Root Chakra is about just that: roots. This is the place in the body where we have opportunity to ground and create…

First Chakra – Root & Tribe Carried by our legs and feet – the bones, muscle, fluids, joints, and connective tissue – the Root Chakra is about just that: roots. This is the place in the body where we have opportunity to ground and create…
In our culture, the word risk so often implies circumstances that are solely trepidatious or negative. Why risk it?, we say. Suggesting that, if we decide to take a risk, we are putting ourselves in the line of fire unnecessarily, with the very real possibility…
If only we could just lead a perfectly-rosy life, unfettered and clear of all obstacles and pain. Yeah, that sounds great. I’ll take one of those to go, please. Though this is a nice image, and we often get to take a ride into that…
A friend of mine recently shared this notion with me: True Believers don’t need any data. For skeptics, there is never enough data. How many times have we been in a place in our lives where we need more evidence, more “data,” to underscore a…
Here we are. On the verge of another New Year. Closing yet another decade. And yet, so much more is happening than the simple passage of time. The planet that we live on is vibrating with insistence. Natural disasters are becoming more common, the fear…
Though our surroundings at this time of year relentlessly remind us of Christmas (unless you have spent the last 26 days under a rock, which might be preferrable), there is another event that I mark as most precious and under-acknowledged in common social circles: Winter…
Have you thought much lately about the spaces where you dive deep into your practice? The dance hall where you spin every Sunday… the retreat center that becomes home for a week each summer… the yoga studio that you stumble upon in the midst of…