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I just finished teaching another one of my fabulous retreats at the Kripalu Center where we spend two and half days embracing the myriad (excruciating and comical) ways we hold on to stress and [...]

“[We say] ‘Get happy.’ And you say, ‘oh too simplistic’…So what kinds of things are you doing that is holding it away other than than noticing that ‘it [...]

Your Spacious Self Online Course – A Testimonial… Hi Stephanie, Thank you! I’m so grateful for your online course (I’m at chapter 4).  I’m amazed at the insights [...]

Last Saturday I did something completely out of character for (my introverted, worker bee) self. My Mexican cousin and his posse of ten friends from Mexico City were in town for the weekend [San [...]

End of story. Nothing else to say. Or do. Photo: “A Divine Reminder” by Stephanie Bennett Vogt: [message compliments of an Italian license plate]

“…Don’t go see someone who is irritating. Take a day off from work if you feel tired. Go to the beach if it calls you. Listen to more of the music that pleases you. Soothe yourself in any way [...]

Enjoy these spacious contemplations to inspire a **clear** new year: “What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? I hope so. If not, [...]

Written on Christmas Eve, 1513 “I salute you.  I am your friend, and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not.  But there is much, very much, that, [...]

  Since Christmas is all about joy after all, let’s take it all the way. The “Digital Story of the Nativity” video below is a total hoot. It is what the Jesus story might [...]

Not since 1703 have we seen the likes of this: a full moon, a total eclipse, and the Winter Solstice all at the same time. The beautiful video below inspired me to take a peek outdoors before [...]