I’ve just returned home from a fabulous retreat at Ocamora Retreat Center in northern New Mexico. I acquired new skills for leading my life and entered into a network of colleagues and friends who share similar values and a commitment to changing the world through their inner and outer work. But I have to …
I have been exploring three books simultaneously: The Call by Oriah Mountain Dreamer, Women, Food and God by Geneen Roth, and The Gene Keys by Richard Rudd. For several years I’ve been working with Marshall Rosenberg’s teachings of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) – that we all have universal needs and that all behavior (yep, even the …
About 3 months ago I began attending 2-3 classes a week at Bhava, an Anusara Yoga studio here in Albuquerque. I had practiced and taught Anusara at Yoga Oasis from 1998-2004, but had chosen an Ayur-yoga teacher when I moved to Albuquerque. A few months after that teacher moved away, I found myself chanting the …
I am facilitating a book study on The Call by Oriah Mountain Dreamer. It’s more than just a book study, really. It’s facilitating a change in consciousness for all of us; increasing our ability and willingness to be with what is. Last week we read chapter seven “Going Home” and a question she posed has …
So today I ask myself “In what ways am I living my fullest, my genius?” “What do I do in my daily life to allow my being to receive more light?” “How may I support others in receiving more light and expressing their beauty and genius to the planet and her inhabitants?”
Asking myself these questions leads me, most naturally, to the ways in which I interfere with offering my gifts to the planet and her inhabitants. How much darker can it get than raging?
