Aligning with Grace

We can live - or simply exist... We can live simply - embodying the extraordinary in the ordinary - or not at all... We can live deeply, transformatively, and well, and when we do - our life itself becomes our practice... I've been reflecting on the broader meaning and implications of practice. For those of us who practice yoga, we dedicate much of our time and focus on the practice of doing asana - or poses - setting ourselves the goal of achieving certain postures, or deepening in them. But, what happens when you cannot do asana the way you once did? Or, what happens if all of a sudden, for one reason or another - you are unable to sustain a physical practice at all? If you have cultivated a broader perspective of practice as one that is fundamentally a spiritual path, then asana is merely just one aspect of what constitutes your practice. What then, is practice? What does it mean to you? What does it look like now? How will it evolve in 20, 30 or 50 years from now? I picked up a...

I am now halfway into teaching the short course on the Yoga of Forgiveness at Willow Street Yoga Center . But really, it is more about its facilitation, because we are all ultimately, teachers and students to one another. And of course, as teachers, we simply teach what we need to know and learn... Yesterday, I shared these words from a poem titled, "Forgiveness," written by Gerald Jampolsky , MD , and they simply took my breath away...I found myself reflecting on them over, and over again... I have much more to share about this course, but it must wait for now... I offer these powerfully searing words, which are feeding me at the moment, as morsels to feed your own soul and heart, throughout this day, and the remainder of this week. May you masticate them and extract from them whatever it is that you need... It is never too early to forgive. It is never too late to forgive. How long does it take to forgive? It depends on your belief system. If you believe it will never happ...