Contemplating Dualism in Yoga “Out beyond ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” ~Rumi My interest in yoga began more than 15 years ago, when yoga was beginning to get quite popular. Bikram Chodhury had already hit the scene, but had yet to gain international acclaim. Yoga […]

As I have gotten older the reality of death and dying has started to show itself more and more. Many of my elders have passed, many relationships have ended, and all of my relationships have in some way changed form. As we get older the reality of death becomes constant, both literally and figuratively. In […]

“We obviously cannot confront this tangled world alone…. It takes 
no great insight to realize that we have no choice but to think together, 
ponder together, in groups and communities. The question is how to do this. 
How to come together and think and hear each other in order to touch, 
or be touched by […]

I don’t normally repost from the blog I share with David, The Slender Thread, but wanted to share this with everyone. A Visit with Ram Dass Posted on October 6, 2012 on The Slender Thread “I Am Loving Awareness” Laura and David with Ram Dass, at his home on Maui Last Saturday, we had the opportunity to […]

Reposted from The Slender Thread Creativity and Yoga | The Slender Thread. Laura and I are currently planning our Creativity and Yoga workshops for later this month atHui No‘eau Visual Arts Center on Maui. And we are asking the question: what serves what? Are we using yoga to stimulate creativity, or are we using creativity to […]

Politics has been on everyone’s mind as the elections near. In such a heated climate, religion, philosophy and spirituality are often used as one of the driving forces behind political culture wars. The secular public naturally begins to get a sour taste of religion when religious groups come forward in defense or opposition of particular […]

Where we let go of what we are, we become what we might be. ~ Lao Tzu For the past several satsangs and blog posts I’ve attempted to relate yoga and the yoga sutras to daily life – our trials, tribulations, and, on occasion, relationships – however, as we progress through the contemplative discipline of yoga, we see that yoga aims to […]

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity. -       Pema Chödrön I love facebook—it’s a good reflection of what’s in the […]

I didn’t start practicing yoga in India, nor did I begin my studies under the tutelage of any great renunciate. I initiated my practice in much the same way most modern people do—I went to my neighborhood yoga studio and began practicing with a genuine teacher who had dedicated the last several years to intense […]

In the early morning hour, just before dawn, lover and beloved awake and take a drink of water.   She asks, Do you love me or yourself more? Really, tell me the absolute truth. He says, There is nothing left of me. I am like a ruby held up to the sunrise. Is it still […]