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The Jewel of Surrender/Ishvara Pranidhana

This past week I lost a dear friend/client to cancer. It had me questioning the purpose of life. What is life? This mystery, this unknown?  And then I began to think about surrender. How does one surrender to the unknown? The mystery? In my own words, to surrender to the unknown and unknowable can help […]

Martha Graham and Keeping the Channel Open

 Last week on spanda, ‘pulsation’, there was a sentence that really stuck out to me. “When we go deep within ourselves, and we sense this pulsation, spanda, we are sensing our own personal spark of that huge, primordial life force”.-spanda . org. It reminded me of a quote that I have on my altar. It […]

Spanda

For the past few weeks, I have especially, and particularly been feeling pulls between inner contradictory ways of feeling.  With the loss of all physical studio spaces that I teach at due to the Corona virus, and simultaneous excitement of possibilities for the future, I have felt awkward. Awkward has been the best word I […]

Never Dreamed I Would Write This Letter

It often happens that source inspires my intentions for my classes. It also often happens that the intentions that source inspires coincide with the situations of my life.  This past week was no different.  Thank Spirit!  (Those are my feet in the mirror in that picture above.  A last picture of closing up physical space […]