The world will break our hearts...

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 Resilience & Reciprocity for Self

It is an unbelievably beautiful gift to be alive and awake. The world will break our hearts both through its cruelty and its beauty. Our job is not to fix that paradox, but to learn how to live within it with resiliency and reciprocity.

We grieve, we give thanks, and we act in some personal way in response to the gift of being alive.

This last class in the Resilience & Reciprocity series will ask us to shift from an independent to an intra-dependent point of view of ourselves, others, and the natural world. All 3 ask for our grief, our gratitude and our reciprocal action. And, all 3 are uplifted and clarified through our meditation practice. 

Emergence Labs writes of intra-dependency - 

Intra-dependency on the other hand signifies how something is the outcome of another thing. One thing is “of” another. {...} The ‘whole’ is making us (even as we can identify ourselves as separate).

The whole is making us. We cannot meditate solely for our own betterment. We cannot meditate solely for others. Or for the natural world. Because, as much as we view these as separate realms, they are threads of a whole.

So, our meditation practice isn’t only for sacred halls and silent incense-filled air. It is also for dogs barking and children crying and the many experiences that make up a life.  In short, meditation practice is for you.

Join me for today’s discussion on the Self, intra-dependency, and a 20-minute guided meditation.  

Just The Meditation

Each week, only for newsletter subscribers {that's you!}, I will be sharing a guided meditation that you can access anytime you like.
Enjoy and keep practicing!

Resilience & Reciprocity for Self  {14 minute guided meditation}

Our meditation practice isn’t only for sacred halls and silent incense-filled air. It is also for dogs barking and children crying and the many experiences that make up a life.  In short, meditation practice is for you.

Join Me in August

I am delighted to offer the opening meditation for this year's Dirty South Yoga Fest!

On Saturday, August 26, I will be sharing a special class titled: 

Birdsong, Waterfalls & Star-Stuff:

An Elemental Awakening with Nature-based Meditation 

Ancient wisdom traditions teach us that the body is a universe.

Carl Sagan once told us that we are “made of star-stuff”. 

Modern science proves that mindfully connecting to nature has a huge impact on our well-being - boosting immunity, reducing anxiety & enhancing creativity. Yet, weaving together our contemplative practices with the natural world offers us so much more than a quick health fix.

Nature-based meditation anchors us in a larger, more ancient story. It invites us to understand ourselves on a deeper level, and offers a tantalizing invitation into the spiritual side of a meditation practice. Nature serves as mirror, storyteller, and space holder.

Join me for a nature-based meditation class as we use the myth and science of birdsong, waterfalls, and star-stuff to usher in an elemental awakening. 

Use code ILOVEMYTEACHER to save 10% on your ticket!!