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...
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.
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, 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...
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...
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...
Social media can be triggering for many of us. It can provide fuel for the mind of comparison, heightening our sense of unworthiness. It can stimulate fears. What shifts when our social media feeds...
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...
Normally when we learn to direct self-compassion toward our suffering and challenges, we find the places inside where we feel stuck, inadequate or hurt. This includes identifying where the discomfort shows up in the...
Spiritual bypassing is a superficial way of glossing over problems in a way that might make us feel better in the short term, but ultimately solves nothing and just leaves the problem to linger...
