But what I forgot to mention in my video message is in this “plane of possibility,” we are all one! There is no separation. Again, I am sharing the wisdom of neuropsychologist, Dr. Daniel Siegel, who went so far as to quote Einstein, “the biggest illusion is to think we are separate.” However, I will take this…
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Yogic Wisdom from Jim Kallett
Having Jim Kallett come to the studio this last weekend was a little above the norm when it comes to the specialness of a visiting “senior” teacher. I took so much away from his teaching, workshop, and discussions, but even more from his “Talk”. Jim came in Friday to teach Saturday morning, and then that…
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True Nature
Brad made an important statement in his class recently that I pondered for a while. Our Bikram yoga practice is such a constant. It’s meant to be so. Every time we come to class we are expected to hear the same dialog in the same room with the same heat looking in the same mirror. …
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Malcolm Gladwell: Observations and What’s the Point?
Malcom Gladwell, author of Blink, Tipping Point, The Outliers, and most recently David and Goliath, spoke at DeAnza College as part of their Celebrity Forum Speaker series. I was super excited to attend with my friend Jeff as Gladwell’s books have made a huge impression on me with his perspectives on human behavior. I couldn’t…
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13 years of fear: fully experiencing all realms
We just finished our 13th year! I asked my class that morning to come up close to the mirror, enough to see your own eyes, as I wanted to take a few minutes and participate in the meaning of the day before the celebrations kicked in! It’s an anniversary which marks another year of growth…
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Winding Staircase
Years ago, I recall sitting at dinner with my good friend Diane from Il Fornaio Restaurants and discussing the start of a new year. I was recommitting to goals I had earlier set for myself, but with differences —owing to the knowledge I had gained through living my life since that time. She replied saying,…
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Illuminate to Enlighten – A Newsletter for Holidays
I don’t travel much so going to Chicago to see my sister Sheri and my nephews around the holiday was unusual. But it was also necessary, since it had been almost two years seeing my family. I travelled the day after Thanksgiving which made the trip less expensive and less crowded, and I came home just…
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Championships – True Self vs Ego Self
What an amazing weekend It held a little bit of everything: yoga competition; champion demonstration; heartfelt community; knowledgeable, energetic classes; moving testimonials; visitors from all over the state coming together; children and young adult participation; stage strength and vulnerability; humorous human moments; tough to swallow mistakes; and I bet more that you can add in…
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Walk in Faith
Walking by faith and not by sight is one of the hardest challenges we experience as human beings as we have these ideas of what our day, our months, our years and even our life might look like. It’s easy to become disappointed when something along our path doesn’t go as we had hoped. But…
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Rajashree Choudhury – Don’t Give Up
“Having means nothing unless you know how to use it,” Bikram will often say as he teaches class. In our physical Hatha yoga practice for 90 minutes we are paying attention to all parts of the body, learning what we have and how it is used. It might very well be that you are learning…
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