How Mindfulness Can Boost Your New Year’s Resolve Do you make New Year’s resolutions? How do they usually pan out for you? The new year seems like a good time to start with a...
Does Worry Interfere with Your Sleep? Try Mindfulness It’s 3:00 am. You’re wide awake, mind racing. You might be worried about paying your mortgage. You might be puzzling over something someone said to you...
Why the Body is the Key to Mindfulness “It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being...
Take a Seat: How to Choose a Meditation Cushion or Bench People sometimes chuckle when I tell them that sitting meditation is physically rigorous. But it’s true. When you sit still and tune into your body for...
Zafu or Bench? How Yoga’s Vayus Can Make or Break Your Meditation In the early 1990s, when I was just a few years into vipassana meditation practice, I sat a 10-day silent retreat. It was my fourth such...
4 Benefits of Meditation for Seniors Some traditions of yoga recognize the “seasons” of people’s lives. These traditions advocate for allowing your practice to evolve according to your season. Here’s how it...
Metta Meditation: Kindness for Your Mentors In the past few months, I’ve been exploring metta (kindness) meditation in this blog. The first installment covered practicing kindness for an easy being—someone, human or...
Celebrate National Meditation Day! Images of meditation have become ubiquitous. In the past, meditation was depicted as something that was confined to monks in the East. You know the images—...
Home Yoga Practice: 5 Tools for the Journey Yoga is everywhere these days. Not only do studios abound in most cities, but asana classes can also be found in health clubs, schools and even...
V-Shaped Meditation Cushion for Comfort Round meditation cushions—zafus—are standard fare in most yoga and meditation spaces. For many people, these cushions do the job. They elevate the pelvis to make it...
V-Shaped Cushion for Sitting Support Most people learn pretty quickly that comfort is crucial when you practice sitting meditation. Maintaining your natural spinal curves in meditation is the key to ease...
Mindful Skills for Law Enforcement Recently I had a wonderful opportunity to work with new police recruits. Self-care and resiliency skills are imperative in our world. What better way to serve...
Is Sitting Uncomfortable? Try an Alternate Meditation Posture Do you find sitting meditation uncomfortable? You’re not alone. For many people, the traditional posture, sitting cross-legged, is not ideal. The good news is that cross-legged...
Mindful Eating, a Habit to Savor On every silent Insight Meditation retreat I’ve attended—at The Last Resort in Southern Utah, or at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California—meals have always been...
How Mindfulness Can Help Your New Year Resolutions Stick Mindfulness for a New Year I want to say at the outset that I’ve never been big on New Year’s resolutions. It’s not that resolving to...
Just Sitting Just Sitting Our lives are so busy, so rushed. Sometimes it’s hard to find a moment to sit still. It’s one of the reasons that I...
Why Practice Yoga and Mindfulness? What Does Mindfulness Have to Do with Anything? Patricia has been coming to my yoga classes for more than 15 years. Last week while we were...
Lightweight Sukasana Pillows Travel Easy Use a Sukasana Cushion for Ease in “Easy Pose” In some ways you could call sitting meditation the ultimate vacation. When you make the effort to step...
