Many people feel that we are living in dark and confusing times these days. In recent years, people have felt waves of increasing uncertainty,...

Last month I wrote about surrender - and this month I’ll offer a real life example.

Some of you know I’ve been organizing a wedding for...

Surrender is a beautiful thing. Even though what leads us to the point of surrender is often much hardship - once we let go, we wish we had made...

A student recently asked what my personal practice looks like, and I thought it might be useful to reflect and share how it’s evolved over...

A student in my last Inner Peace Outer Peace class pointed out how “stress” is such a universal feeling these days - and it really rang...

I hope we all ask ourselves that question on occasion, and venture to answer it for ourselves.

For some there may be histories of trauma (big or...

The recent past has seen a lot of collective despair and hopelessness arising - witnessing sentiments and acts of hate and violence, seeing the...

For many people in our modern world, slowing down, pausing, and stopping can be a really big challenge! What happens when you allow yourself to...

Here we are again - New Year’s resolutions time. What did you resolve last year? How did those resolutions work out for you? If you are like...

The Fifth Mindfulness Training (1), Nourishment and Healing, states: Aware of the suffering caused by unmindful consumption, I am committed to...

I don’t know about you, but over the past 2 years or so I have been acutely aware of a sense of “us” vs. “them” - a...

In meditation class, we talk about using our breath as an anchor - a stable place to return to again and again each time our mind wanders, and an...