Nourishing

“Support Equals Release.” –Svaroopa Yoga With over fifteen years of experience with many different styles of yoga, I have to say that the most profound poses for me are the simplest. [...]

“What you are is what you have been. What you will be is what you do now.” –Buddha “If I had to summarize in three words the essence of the clearing path as I’ve experienced it…it would be [...]

My eighteen-year-old “baby” graduates from high school tomorrow. I’ve been surprisingly okay all week. No pangs, no tightening of the throat, no water works. Until yesterday. I [...]

“Simplify, simplify…” –Henry David Thoreau Last night I watched the second segment of Brian Williams’ “Inside the Obama White House,” which aired on NBC last [...]

If your read my last post, you probably saw that I was experiencing a rather “roomy” moment, thanks to the wisdom of my new BFF, 13th century Persian mystic and poet, Rumi. I resonate [...]

“Let the beauty we love be what we do.”–Rumi I re-discovered Rumi last week. I went on the internet looking for something else and landed on a very unassuming site that had something [...]

“Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.”–Regina Brett I’ve always loved this photo of a centenarian using her birthday candles to light up a cigarette. It [...]

“Life by the inch is a cinch. Life by the yard is hard.”–Unknown In my book Your Spacious Self I offer a series of phrases that are designed to relieve and release the build-up of [...]

“Hey Ted, move your head.” Living in a family of book lovers, readers, and library fanatics, I feel a twinge of guilt every time I turn on the TV. Why is it that I feel somehow [...]

“On the threshold the entire past And the endless future Rush to meet one another.” –Gunilla Norris, Being Home My friend Nancy and her husband are building a house from scratch in their hometown [...]