Stillness is yoga.
Patanjali, in the Yoga Sutras, defines yoga as the stilling of the patterns of the mind.
What happens then? Do you black out? Space out? Disappear?

When the patterns are still, the revelation of True Nature is revealed.
The reverse is true when the patterns are churning and swirling...

Chakra School: Untangle the Knots of Trauma & Karma.
Embody Your Radical Wholeness.

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When trauma and karma run our lives, we experience:

• Body tension, pain, and compulsive behaviors.
• Anxious, critical thoughts and self-doubt.
• Relationship misunderstandings, power struggles, and lack ...

A reader who’s left the corporate world and is embarking on a new entrepreneurial venture sent this question:
“At what point does being ‘responsible’ shift into just being caught in a negative mindset where it’s all about avoiding risk and liability?

When does due diligence change into just puttin...

Before a caterpillar can become a butterfly, it must become goo.
Within the cocoon, as the form of the caterpillar totally dissolves, it turns to a liquid that is rich with nutrients and potential. From that goo, the butterfly is formed.

Within the goo are what biologists call imaginal cells. 
Thes...

We had gathered to celebrate our friend’s 60^th birthday. Between sips of chai tea and bites of dhal, I was catching up with the woman sitting next to me. We hadn’t talked in 6 months. She was relating her recent relationship adventures.

“When I met him,” she said, “I knew at some level that he wa...

“The place where people meet to seek the highest -- is holy ground,” was the saying above the stage in the auditorium of my elementary school. (I attended the Ethical Culture School in New York City where the search for meaning, purpose, and justice was introduced in the earliest grades.)

During ...

I was riding shotgun (i.e. sitting in the passenger seat) and Aaron, my 22-year-old son, was driving. He had picked me up at the airport and, within minutes, we were weaving in and out of the afternoon traffic.

Up ahead of us the traffic light turned from green to yellow. Aaron gunned the engine....