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A River Runs Through Me
This past week I was with my family camping in the Rockies. In the days before we left I was feeling bored with day to day activities and also a little stressed trying to prepare for a week away with...
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Yoga to Nourish and Protect
Thich Nhat Hanh I take my daughter for a walk every morning. Sometimes I listen to audiobooks on my IPod in one ear while I walk. Recently I have been listening to Thich Nhat Hanh’s Mindfulness and...
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Coming Down From the Mountain Top
From www.michaelguth.com A few weeks ago I had a session with my long time therapist and mentor. At one point during our conversation he relayed the story in the Bible of Jesus’ transfiguration (Mark...
View ArticleThe Freedom of Being Half-Assed.
In two weeks I will be starting my Master's degree in Counselling Psychology. For years I have considered many avenues for graduate study, more often than not I have been tyrannized by the thought of...
View ArticleYoga and Instinct
I am currently reading Maps to Ecstasy by Gabrielle Roth who is the founder of the 5 Rhythms – a practice of ecstatic dance and a profound movement meditation meant to bring us into deep intimacy with...
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Three Minutes in the Sun
Rowan and I have a route that we walk almost every morning. I cherish those times, she loves to be in her stroller and I love to greet the morning sky in it’s myriad of forms. Because our walks are...
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The Dying Season
Over the past week I have been feeling funny. For me “funny” can lead to all sorts of misplaced reactions and compensations when the feeling isn’t seen clearly and understood. So the process of...
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The Story of Everything
Last night I watched a documentary call Into The Universe – The Story of Everything with Stephen Hawking. Some of my first philosophical questions as a child were about the nature of universe: how...
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God, the Child.
After all, what is God? An eternal Child playing an eternal game in the eternal garden.- Sri Aurobindo If God is this, then what am I? I am the eternal Play. I look out my window to the tree that...
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Yoga: A workout?
Say you’re given a magic key. It’s like one of those beautiful old, over-sized keys made of iron that were used for cathedrals and 300 year old Tuscan villas. This key is magic in that it can open a...
View ArticleAn Out of the Ordinary Life
We often think that freedom comes at the “well-done” completion of some task. Or in the absence or presence of someone or something. We think it comes from biding our time in our repetitive day to...
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Awake!
Mystical poetry has been an ongoing source of strength and inspiration for me in my life. It speaks on a level beyond the intellect, straight to the part of us that knows the immensity of our being....
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Halloween and the Shadow
“The evil of our time is the loss of consciousness of evil.” - Krishnamurti I have to admit, Halloween is one of my favorite “holidays”. And by the way that people adorn their homes with Halloween...
View ArticleBe Affected By Your Breath
I like to think that some of the things that I’ve discovered in my yoga journey may resonate or be helpful to others. The following is an inquiry into the breath that can be engaged in your practice...
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We Must Become The Sun
Can you enter your inner landscape the way that sunlight enters a garden? A garden is a dynamic, living system. Within it resides plants and grasses of endless varieties, rocks and soil, insects and...
View ArticleEmbodying the Philosophy of Yoga
This is truly my favorite topic of yoga. With the extensive wisdom that is available to us from yoga and other traditions around the world how do we go about not just knowing this wisdom...
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Living Compassion – One forward bend at a time.
In my last post I introduced the process of learning how to embody wisdom. In this post I will offer you one way to approach compassion through yoga and enact it as a living virtue in your practice...
View ArticleStaying Connected in the Holiday Season
The following is an article I wrote for the Yoga Association of Alberta’s newsletter – published December 2010. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— There’s nothing like the holiday season...
View ArticleThe Call of Something Holy
I used to love Christmas. I still remember the incredible excitment that used to reverberate in me as a child. I loved the Christmas shows, the food, the gatherings, the music and the toys. It was...
View ArticleA New Resolve About Resolutions
Let me tell you about a resolution I once made. I was living in Calgary after graduating from my undergrad and was working at a natural food store. I hadn’t had much experience with holistic living...
View ArticleThe Dead Season
There is a moat around my house. It is white and fluffy and it feels like it is imprisoning me. A few months ago I wrote “The Dying Season” about the transition of the lively summer season into...
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Our Dual Nature
I’m sure many of you have heard the adage “we are not human beings that can have spiritual experiences but spiritual beings having a human experience”. This sentiment was always a little peculiar to...
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Wanderlust – A Meditation in Darkness and Light.
What can I say about Wanderlust? I write this with some hesitation because not all I have to say is full of the love and bliss that was the incessant mantra of this festival. Carl Jung said “One...
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Living a Spiritual Life
Today my daughter and I were home sick with the flu. As I sit down to write this post on the nature of spiritual living I can see – in living color – the collision between human and divine. How do I...
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My Top 12 Favorite Spiritual Practices
These are the practices that I employ regularly right now in my life. There have been and will be many others, depending on my needs and the season of life I find myself in. And for you they may be...
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