SEMI-DAILY
Musings
About yoga, life, and how hard it is to sit still.
Where meditation meets professional development
I love annual performance evaluations. No really. And maybe you should too?
There is only now
Time is a construct, as are money and gender and race. But we must remember that none of it is real.
Back to yoga
As I move through familiar shapes — salabhasana, virabhadrasana, bakasana — it is like returning after a long journey.
Change starts with me
It is incredibly hard to be fully aligned. The issue is looking for others to change before we do it ourselves.
All we have to do is try
Shoulders are the most flexible joint in our already complex bodies. There is a parallel with our lives generally.
Size matters
Human collectives are messy, no matter the purpose. Whether it is a collective, a company, a country, or a coven, the larger the messier.
Moving at the speed of presence
As it happens, I don’t always need to move slowly, I just need to move at the speed of my presence. There is a difference. And maybe, just maybe, that difference is yoga.
Efficiency is not the point
Efficiency, as it happens is not an indicator of joy and not even always a net positive. Efficiency in one can lead to inefficiency in the whole.
Anything can happen in the dark
It is not a coincidence that when I am distracted and stressed, and therefore need the centering that comes with meditation, I find it hard to actually close my eyes.
Balance in movement
I mourn the imminent shift in my daily routine. Re-finding balance will require flexing muscles I might not know I had.
Can’t buy me love
I miss many things about Brooklyn, but they are not really about the place.
Presence with pain
We all have the capacity to love, and it starts by loving ourselves enough to recognize where we contribute to suffering and harm.
The only way out is through
The way out of here, paraphrasing Rabbi Tarfon, says: the enormity of this work is not the point.
Listening is one thing …
This past Saturday, I did something I have never done before. I truly respected the boundaries of my body.
This is not insane
It is not insane to demand peace, to insist on our joint humanity, to posit the possibility of love.
In which I commit to routine
When do routines become a cop-out, a way to avoid engaging with life?