We all know too well what it is NOT. We’ve all been on teams that do not function well: Work teams that are lead by micromanagers or absent or burned out leaders; families that pull away from each other in crisis; any business or organization that’s lost it’s sense of...
You may only know that Lent is a Christian season during which practitioners, “give something up,” as a spiritual practice. You may even know it is a season for preparing for Easter, or a big change more generally. This Lent which began for Christians on Feb. 26 has...
We know what it is not. It is not the churning of dread in your lower gut when you step toward one more pointless meeting. It is not the threads of tension that knot up in your shoulders when your work team avoids that elephant in the room for the millionth time. It...
My 2019 was full of wandering. More wandering than I’ve done in quite a while. The wandering isn’t really a bad thing: When I began my advanced yoga teacher training nearly two years ago, I didn’t know why I was doing it or how I was going to use it. I just felt...
For a front row seat to how I use media, meditation, and mindfulness to help clients find their next steps, sign up for my online retreat, which starts on July 13. Learn more here. Anyone who reads my social media feeds knows that I am a film and tv junkie. Long...
Recently I led a team-building activity for a management team at a health care company. I led this relatively new team in creating a team ritual that would help them spread positivity among the teams they lead. We used some craft supplies and items from the recycling...
From the beginning, it did not work exactly as I had hoped. The two-sided, stainless steel garbage can that I had finally bought — after a couple years of stalking sales — was terrific in many ways. Recycling divided neatly from garbage. The stainless steel was...
When my teenage angst raged in my late teens, I summarily dismissed the Roman Catholic faith in which I had been raised. I thought all the adults sitting in mass each week were just there out of habit or obligation. Through my limited teenage experience, I saw no...
So my actual birthday was full of connections. I was privileged to assist a senior teacher at Yoga on High in the final weekend training of their six-month Pranayama (Breath) Course. I made treats for those fellow yogis, who sang "Happy Birthday" and offered me a few...
I became obsessed with the NBC tv show, The Good Place, last winter. Something like … 47 people had emphatically recommended it; so, I binged it to keep my sanity while riding my bike on its trainer in the depths of last winter. This network TV romp makes ethics,...
Healer. That word emerged most frequently when I dropped — as the yogis say — into the cave of my heart, in several rounds of meditation. This meditation practice, I hoped, would reconcile the conflicting feelings I had about the next work to which I might be called....