Dear friends💜 Just came back from a one day Vipassana course at Onalaska Washington. It feels right, after 6 hours of meditation, which requires discipline and will power to write about the Manipura Chakra. The third chakra Manipura is associated with the fire element. It relates to energy, kundalini, power and transformation. “The center of […]

Dear friends💜 The Second Chakra is associated with the water element. It relates to letting go, flowing, moving, feeling, yielding and change. In the first chakra we learn to ground, stabilize and focus. Now in the second chakra, Svadhisthana, our challenge is just the opposite, to let go, to flow and move, to feel and

Dear friends💜 This story by Colleen Saidman Yee, is about rooting and grounding: “I remember one day asking [my mom] why she was sad, and she said, “I miss my trees.”“Trees?” I thought. “After everything we’d lost, you miss trees?”My mom loved trees, especially old maples. And, though my first thought was sassy, I knew

Dear friends Earlier today I was walking by myself through a beautiful park on my way to Shabbat services at the Shul. As I was walking I started to think about what I should share in this weekly email. But my wiser self was saying: ‘Why now?’ Why don’t you just be present in this walk?’ You

Dear friends💜 As some of you may know, I am a student again in an advanced yoga teacher training program. In the course about the brain we received a recommendation to watch a Ted Talk by Jill Bolte Taylor who is a neuroanatomist and author of My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey.

Dear friends💜 In preparation for Passover, the holiday that represents freedom. A journey from bondage to liberation I was thinking what freedom really is. Does freedom mean we get to do whatever we wish, whenever we wish? Is freedom the ultimate goal or just a means to find happiness? In my understanding freedom correlates with

Dear friends Almost every morning last week I woke up with a migraine headache. A chronic illness which had faded away, through my spiritual practice, in the last decade. I was trying to understand what has changed in my daily life and the only change I could think of was my new position at a

Dear friends Most of us are here for the third limb of yoga. The asanas – the poses, and so I thought it would be valuable to go though some of the asanas and break them down. Their benefits for body and mind and some modifications we can take. I will examine these postures through traditional books like Hatha

  Dear friends! In the Jewish tradition, this week’s reading of the Torah, was from the book of Genesis 12:1-3: “Now the Lord said to Abram, ‘Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and

Dear friends We are officially in the fall season, which started on September 22nd with the Fall Equinox. A time of balance between light and dark, a time to connect to Earth Consciousness as we witness the shift of energies in nature. As part of nature we are to embrace the changes around us and see how