On May 15, 2024, my beautiful friend Karin passed away suddenly and tragically. Karin was a uniquely special, positive, inquisitive and kind woman. Her sudden passing has left her husband, four daughters, her parents and brother, our community and all in the world who knew her, mourning the loss of her special light. She connected…
As a kid, I grew up watching and laughing at Al Franken as Stuart Smalley on Saturday Night Live, the character with the self-help show “Daily Affirmations with Stuart Smalley.” Do you remember his famous affirmations, gazing at himself in the mirror? “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.” Al…
This is a favorite meditation of mine to bring a sense of divine protection, to promote healing, and connect to light. It is a wonderful way to usher in sleep, so you can practice it in your bed at bedtime. The source of the meditation is from the Jewish Bedtime prayers, that invoke the Archangels…
After a glorious solitary retreat in Cyprus, where I found nourishment for my body and soul, I’ve returned home. (To read how I ended up here by myself, read The Retreat – Part One). Full of observations, insights, inspiration and calm, I would like to share with you here some tastes from my retreat. Nature…
For all of the planning, excitement and belief in this year’s Women’s Nurture Annual Retreat, I just couldn’t make it happen. What??? Some of you may be asking…didn’t you write that there were only a few spaces left? Well, that was true at one point. But then slowly, slowly, the numbers just kept dropping off.…
A Week Long Mini-Journal into the Ether Element As part of an assignment in a therapeutic/rehabilitative yoga course I’m taking, I had to look a one of the basic five elements (earth, water, fire, air and ether/space) and observe its presence in my yoga practice, teaching and in life, and to journal about it. We…
