3 Reasons To Create New Year’s “Intentions” Instead Of “Resolutions”

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It's that time of year again.  Where we look back and dream forward. In order to make our dreams more tangible and feasible, we are encouraged to turn our dreams into New Year's resolutions -- specific goals for things we want to accomplish in the coming year. I don't usually make … [Read more...]

“Enlightenment” Is Not Up THERE Anywhere

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We human beings have long believed that in order to be "enlightened," we had to move our energy upward; get our kundalini to rise and spend more time in our "more advanced" upper chakras. It makes sense, right? We are spiritual beings before we come here.  We then get born into this physical … [Read more...]

Is There A Cougar In Your Car? (aka Is Your Fear Real Or Imagined?)

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  What are you afraid of? And more importantly, is it here NOW? Most likely, it is not. Perhaps that is why I find this clip from “Talladega Nights” so hysterical – Will Ferrill’s fear is quite visceral. To help him overcome his fear of crashing again (a fictional event in … [Read more...]

Are You Stressed or Blessed?

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  Lately, I hear a lot of people (and the media) talking about the “stress” and “pressure” of these times, so this week, I want to take a look at these two concepts. It’s so easy to point to the demands of our boss, our creditors, our partner, etc. and label them as … [Read more...]

Chakra Boosters Tattoos Named #1 Spiritual Stocking Stuffer

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I rarely write about my Chakra Boosters Healing Tattoos™ in my blog, but I simply have to share this: About.com has named them the #1 Spiritual Stocking Stuffer this season. It makes sense.  I mean, after all, it's tough coming up with creative gift ideas this time of year.  And if the … [Read more...]

Celebrate Fear — Expand Your Courage

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Ah, Halloween.  That time of year when we actually celebrate being scared.  What better time could there be to look at our courage and maybe even bump it up a notch? Most of us hold a false belief that gets in the way of us stepping fully into our courage.  We erroneously think courage is the … [Read more...]

The Always Present Gift of Death

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My dad is visiting me from Seattle, and I’m grateful.  He’s older now – 77 -- and each moment together seems more meaningful, more precious. And as I feel our experience getting richer, I feel deep gratitude -- for life and for death. I've always known that life is a gift, but now as I … [Read more...]

My Weekend with Death

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The Buddhists say we should “die a thousand deaths before we die,” and I think they may genuinely be onto something.  I should know because I spent this whole weekend diving into death – and it was a life-changing experience. It all started a couple months ago, when affable and … [Read more...]

Happy MOTHER Earth Day!

Jill Bolte Taylor

As I sit in my little hotel room in Athens, Greece preparing to teach my Luna Yoga Workshop that honors the Divine Feminine, I can't help but appreciate the beautiful "coincidence" of a Luna Yoga Workshop falling right on Earth Day -- MOTHER Earth Day. We say "Mother Earth" just as we say … [Read more...]