On my first ever silent meditation retreat, I remember sitting on my cushion for the first sit, hearing the bell ring, closing my eyes, and immediately feeling a sinking in my gut accompanied by a thought along the lines of, “For the love of God, what have I gotten myself into??” The retreat was less [...]

Have you ever had an event or relationship come your way that had an air of unpleasant familiarity about it and made you think, “You’ve gotta be kidding me, THIS again???!” You thought you’d ditched your resentment about an old relationship but feel yourself get all indignant and reactive the next time you see the [...]

I’m visiting Washington, DC, where I lived in my mid-20s, this week. And as I stroll through neighborhoods where I used to live and reminisce with friends I’ve shared lots of fond memories with, I’m feeling not a sense of nostalgia so much as straight up gratitude. Gratitude for how my time in this town [...]

A trend among beginners to yoga is how flustered they get when they fall out of balance postures. (You yogis can likely relate, beginners and experienced practitioners alike!) That feeling of frustration or exasperation, maybe a hint of embarrassment, and, for the cherry on top, a little self-judgey “Ugh, I can’t believe I fell out [...]

Earlier this week I was feeling all worked up and anxious about a new connection with someone with whom things were feeling up in the air. And then as soon as we made a plan to get together again, I was able to relax and get on with my life. When things felt uncertain, contraction [...]

The other morning I was feeling scattered and distracted, my mind hopping from one thing I wanted to do to another with little focus to be found. Then in the midst of this little spin, a tomato with a ray of sun bouncing off it in a bowl on my kitchen counter caught my eye. [...]

After taking a year off from yoga to heal up a hamstring injury, I’m discovering some new things as I get back on my mat. Handstands provided the latest learning lab in a recent class. On this particular day, every time I kicked up into a handstand it stuck. So much so that I wasn’t [...]

The other day while I was in line at the bank a man was getting visibly and audibly agitated with the teller on the other side of the glass, who wasn’t understanding what he was asking for. While the teller managed to keep her composure, the man became increasingly aggressive and condescending. His tone implied [...]

I woke up this morning not knowing what I was going to write this blog about, unsure how to move forward with a business project I’m working on, and with an out of whack hip from a yoga class that had me on my way to the chiropractor. Things were feeling fuzzy; unclear. I got [...]

I went to a live story-telling event the other night in San Francisco where audience members submitted their names to be called on stage to share a true 5-minute story related to a theme. One by one these 10 people got up and shared some incredibly vulnerable piece of themselves with this audience of strangers, [...]