Dear Friends, This past week I participated in Commitment to Practice with my meditation group. We met last Sunday, guided by our teacher, Mitchell Ratner, to meditate, journal, and share about how we wanted to commit to our mindfulness practices during the upcoming week. We came up with general ideas, and then more concrete suggestions [...]

Dear Friends, Hi. Happy New Year! Thank you all for being part of our sangha (community of practice) during 2008. What a wonderful year of yoga, meditation, mindfulness, Pilates, dana (generosity) and community building we have enjoyed together. Though I am not usually one for resolutions, this New Year I decided to look into the [...]

Dear Friends, Hi. If you’ve ever read Dr. Seuss’s classic, I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew, then you may understand one of the themes that has run through my life and my practice since I was a child. This book was my absolute favorite when I was young, and I can recite many [...]

Dear Friends, Hi. I can’t believe it’s November already. This past weekend we had our Saturday Sangha, which is our monthly community day (sangha means community that practices together), and we had a lively discussion about what we really need. This topic has been on my mind lately for a number of reasons. Mostly, I [...]

Dear Friends, Hi. I just sat down on the sofa in my living room, after having had a loud “discussion” with my teenage daughter. The argument wasn’t anything profound, simply whether she would be willing to drive her sister to a friend’s house using her own gas, which she has recently started paying for. As [...]

Dear Friends, Hi. Here we are again at the start of the fall. I hope you all had a relaxing summer, and had time to put your feet up and just be. I have been thinking a lot about an old Buddhist story (it’s possible that this story exists in many traditions) about the idea [...]