Learning to take up space, authentically!
The murder of George Floyd Covid-19 Economic depression I have to admit, these past two weeks, I have been struggling. Just one of the aforementioned crisis would be enough, and yet, we have all three. Anger. Protests. Sorrow. A few days ago, I laid in bed and stared at the ceiling wondering where are theContinue Reading “A Space for Prayer”
How are you doing? I hope you are well, dear friends. This time…in some ways, is beyond comprehension. And it has led me to an aversion to “should” or “should not”. How should you be feeling? How shouldn’t you be feeling? What? Something dawned on me this week as I sat in prayer and meditation:Continue Reading “A Space to Be as We Are”
My blog is about space: how we take it up and do we take it up in an authentic manner? As we navigate through this very difficult time, we’ve been asked to take up space in a new way: social distancing, elbow bumping, shelter in place…and the list goes on. Our sense of space isContinue Reading “A Space for all Things that Change”
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant? –Henry David Thoreau I just completed a Masterclass through my Calm app with Tara Brach called “Radical Self-Compassion”. I highly recommend listening to it if you are a paid user. She also has a new book outContinue Reading “A Space for Compassion”
Be still and let the world happen. This thought came to me this week as I meditated. I love it! The process of letting go is so very profound. It’s a release. It’s freedom. The world happens and will continue to happen. I can’t do anything about that. But what I can do is toContinue Reading “A Space to Be Still”
Best-laid plans…time to let all that go. I’m chuckling as I write this post. This past weekend was my birthday weekend. Today is my actual day of birth, but my family had planned a lovely weekend of festivities. And yet… Age is a funny thing. For me, it has been to temper my edges aContinue Reading “A Space for What Is”
Today, I was thinking small. And by that I mean finding that thing right in front of me, in my own life, that is wonderful and glorious, small and powerful. Mundane. So, I searched for the cloudless sky and was greeted with dancing sunshine above. I searched for movement, so I stretched towards the songContinue Reading “A Space for the Mundane”
Why Yoga? It happened in the early and frigid morning hours of December. I’d often drive to the gym before the sun even peaked over the horizon. The quiet hush that blanketed my neighborhood at that hour was my meditation. The stillness and crackling silence had sustained me for years. But on that morning, IContinue Reading “A Space for Yoga”
Once you become a parent or aunt or grandparent, you are asked to be brave on a level you never thought possible. And I can guarantee that the very thing you would rather skulk away from and hide behind that tree for will be the very thing you are confronted with. And you will beContinue Reading “A Space to Stretch Into”
“Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.” –Jane Goodall I hear Second Amendment advocates already screaming: “What about our right to bearContinue Reading “A Space Without Guns”