Protest Practice
As I pulled into the drop-off driving lane at my daughter’s middle school, I was confronted with a row of protestors. About 20 parents and a few children lined the sidewalk, all holding up...
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Cultivating Wise Energy
Energy is one of our most vital resources, personally and collectively. It is the vital force that animates our life, allowing us to engage in ordinary daily activities, pursue goals, and realize our potential....
Awareness Shift: Knowing the Nature of the Body, Heart/Mind through the 5 Elements
Connecting to inner and outer nature is an aspect of spiritual practice essential to recognizing what is. A treasured shift of awareness can facilitate an emergence from egocentric into ecocentric existence by widening the...
Researching Experiences of The Limitless
(Originally published Aug 22. 2021, and shared with permission.) After a lifetime of being the researcher looking at a so-called external world, in the last few years I have found myself the occasional subject...
Exploring Groundlessness and Freedom in Times of Uncertainty
We’ve now passed through two full years of the pandemic with no certain end in sight. We’re also experiencing a continuous uptick in unstable weather patterns brought on by climate change and an ever-increasing...
We Journey from Birth onto Death. Does Life Offer Something More?
Life seems an inevitable movement in the field of time until death interrupts. Amidst the myriad number of events, welcome and unwelcome, we hastily conclude the way we perceive reveals the way things are.
Saying YES
I’ve just returned from a week-long New Years Retreat with Presence Collective. It was a profound week in which folks from all different walks of life joined me and jylani ma’at to release into...
Equanimity
Equanimity, or upekkha, is the last of the four Brahma Viharas or heart practices. It holds the other three—loving-kindness, compassion, and joy—with a spacious awareness that allows us to experience whatever is here with...
This Year of Living the Pandemic
What does our body know that the mind does not? We can only discover what the body knows by an act of receptivity: we can listen. We are pretty good at listening to the...
Trauma-Sensitive Meditation: Using an Anchor
A few months ago, I was approached with a problem by a colleague who taught meditation in a classroom setting. A student of hers had lost her father to COVID-19 and was struggling with symptoms...