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Making Your Own Spa Day: A Holiday Tradition

I’ve been dreaming up things I can do–and you too if you’re so inclined–to bring back more of the inner sparkle to these end-of-year days and nights.

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Bodies and Voices: Let the Rivers Clap Their Hands

Bodies and Voices: Let the Rivers Clap Their Hands

Let this motion make new lines on the earth / from thunder and time to change and push
the rivers we live, the rivers we are.

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Teaching Yoga Regularly: Taking the Leap

Teaching Yoga Regularly: Taking the Leap

We all have such moments when we commit to do something because we know it’s time, and then we move toward it on trembling legs and with shaking hearts.

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Bodies and Voices: Lapis

Bodies and Voices: Lapis

The world is made of air, / and air, of dust, pain and joy.

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Falling In Love With The Present

Falling In Love With The Present

It isn’t the distractions that keep us from the present but what we do with them.

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Bodies and Voices: Flight Plan

Bodies and Voices: Flight Plan

My heart opens in a morning lake, reflecting the fire that comes.

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The Yoga of Marriage

The Yoga of Marriage

Pack light, or if you’re like me, pack heavy but be willing to carry your own baggage.

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Bodies and Voices: After the Storm

Bodies and Voices: After the Storm

The new world not conjured arrives here anyway, and over this sprawling tree of life, the stars.

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What The Friend Who Got Away Left Behind

What The Friend Who Got Away Left Behind

The friendship stopped, and there was nothing I could do to jump start it.

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Bodies and Voices: Seeing In The Dark

Bodies and Voices: Seeing In The Dark

Even ghosts, loved enough, turn into angels.

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The Art of Losing

The Art of Losing

How do we find the everyday goodness and reality of life amid big loss?

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Bodies and Voices

Bodies and Voices

From the deep blue that narrates your life /
comes the pouring upward of white curves and blossoms.

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