Inspiring Stories

Boston Marathon:  Remembering Our Buddha Nature When I heard the news of the Boston Marathon bombing on NPR yesterday, like most of us, I was horrified...

Choose Faith There are super frustrating times on The Path. Instead of fighting against frustrating times with more frustration, anger and resentment, take a higher road...

Many of my friends as well as numerous facebook pals keep gratitude journals, noting three things to be grateful for each day. While I don’t tend...

In honor of the spirit of Thanksgiving, we are republishing this blog about gratitude that we ran in September. Enjoy! Gratitude:  We All Built That September...

Live Your True Calling Life ends not when you die, but when you stop believing in your true calling. Your true calling isn’t something your friends,...

One Percent More One of my favorite things about life is that we all get a chance, once a day, to start over. The morning comes...

The Power of Transitions, On and Off the Mat When I’m teaching, I like to remind my students that one of the times they’re most likely...

Rejection Brings You One Step Closer to Your Dreams It’s amazing to me how many people are afraid of the word “no,” especially when it comes...

Summer Bodies When we were 16, my stepsister and I used to talk incessantly about what swimsuit we would get for the summer. For me, being...

The Counterpose of Grief I’ve always been attracted to the idea of pose/counterpose in yoga. The idea is that once you’ve done a type of pose,...

Living your dreams takes courage; it just does. On the one hand you have your heart, your soul and your intuition nudging you in one direction....

Overcoming Addiction:  Replace Unhealthy Habits with Healthy Ones Most human problems are created by our inability to properly feel and express our feelings. Example:  addiction. An...

Lack is an Illusion Here’s a major block to getting what you want: scarcity or lack of consciousness. What’s that mean? It means believing that there...

Whoever You Are, No Matter How Lonely The title of this post may be familiar to many of you as a line from Mary Oliver’s poem,...

Forgiveness:  Free Yourself Part of being free means learning how to forgive. Forgive yourself first and then extend that forgiveness to those who have harmed you....

On Retreat:  Heading to the Woods Once every year, I go to the woods, to a small Catholic retreat center in northeast Kansas, which may not...

Sabbath Yoga — Taking Time for Yourself Years ago, I read that if you don’t make time for your sabbath—or shabbat in Judaism—it will be made...

The Reality of Impermanence The reality of impermanence was one of the first insights I had when I began meditation practice. As my mind began to...