I pedaled hard. I furiously rode. I rode my bike towards the edge of town. The town where I was raised, but I was still a child. I rode and rode and dropped my bike and abandoned it by the side of the field. I had not yet been to the edge of town alone. […]
Category Archives: meditation
On Friday I had the honor of teaching yoga for four freshman PE classes at my daughter’s all-girls high school. My approach with these classes was to focus on stress management and self-awareness through some guided meditation and yoga poses. The students came streaming into the room, about 40 in each class, all giggly and chatty. I heard some of the girls in one of the classes coming […]
1. alignment 2. learn to relax 3. prepare for meditation 4. build strength 5. take it with me 6. new friendships 7. flexibility 8. fall prevention 9. laboratory for life 10. find my safe edge 11. digestive health 12. become witness to self 13. antidote for sitting at a computer 14. yoga sutras 15. mental, […]
As a mother of three adolescents, my attempts at a calm, somewhat detached emotional state are constantly tested by fluctuating sensations of pure joy and total terror. My extreme emotional reactions are usually in response to their activities and behaviors, or to recollection of my own at their age. Outside of sitting continuously in meditation, there is no detachment practice strong enough […]
Condemned to death. Seeking a path away from pain with booze, Xanax, crystal, oxy, heroin. Street drugs, prescriptions…like the mythical lotus eaters, the addicts feast until they forget their homelands. They forget who they are. Addiction is a scourging, it comes with a crown of thorns and a crucifixion. At first, seeking relief from pain: the […]
The first days of February hearken a bleak stretch of winter burnout that is part and parcel of life in the Pacific Northwest. Flashbacks of summers past infiltrate my thoughts as I go about my daily business. The first green buds and shoots are popping out on bushes and trees and pushing tentatively through the soil, teasing me with their promise of the warmth and sunshine to come. […]
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