weekly inspiration to help you transform your life

1.    Stop the Glorification of Busy I was reminded of the zen proverb above this week when my dearest friend invited me out to a leisurely Friday lunch. After an authentic, instantaneous burst of YES, I suddenly experienced a cold-hearted wave of “Wait, can I really take two hours off with everything that...

I absolutely love this 2014 Oscar winning documentary short about Alice Herz-Sommer, who until last year was the world’s oldest living pianist and the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor. Her extraordinary optimism and passion for music got her through the worst of all possible situations, not just as a surv...

For Belle’s Birthday this year I invited a bunch of her favorite people (which, to be honest, are mostly my favorite people, too) to celebrate. I made the little dog a platter of bacon cupcakes (“Bacon” was the theme, actually)… and in the invite I declared that gifts were required...

These days I’m semi-obsessed with Freecycle.  It’s how I got my $600 Dyson for the price of a cab ride.  So this summer when my terrace was sadly empty, I posted about wanting some large plants and trees. One morning last month I got an exciting response to my post, rearranged my day, and withi...

Forget about endless Chaturanga. Savasana might just be the most challenging pose for many type-A yogis. Even B.K.S. Iyengar himself admits that: (for the rest of my essay, check it out online at Mind Body Green.  

Recently, I innocently tweeted: “I don’t really know what ‘Power Yoga’ is but apparently I’m teaching it at 12:30 today. Let’s figure it out together!” As someone who has been teaching for over a dozen years, I thought it was obvious that I was joking and most of ...

For a non-professional, I’m a pretty good sight reader and I can more or less bluff my way through most of Mozart’s piano sonata in F (K. 332), having studying it centuries ago in college. The challenging thing for me is oddly always this one passage in the middle of the slow movement where the...

In a recent game of Transformation, I drew this card — one I’d gotten only once or twice before — that really hit home for me in a new way: Years ago, this particular message — that “vulnerability is perfect protection” — not only did not really register with me,...