Apprenticeship to Love

MAKING A DIFFERENCE, DOING NOTHING

Apprenticeship to Love: Chapter 315, October 15 NOTE: The Apprenticeship to Love Virtual Workshops begin again on October 29 —FREE to Premium subscribers. These are practice-oriented sessions focusing on Kundalini Yoga and Tantric ways of becoming more intimate with yourself and with those you love. FMI and to register please

MEN'S WORK FOR OCTOBER & NOVEMBER

What exactly is "men's work?" Leroy Gordon, one of the men's coaches I've enjoyed hosting on the podcast a number of times, said that he consideres our "work" to be the work of receiving the feminine into our lives. We

THE WAY IS DARK

Apprenticeship to Love: Chapter 301, October 11 * Today's questions: What happens when you simply live —and love— to the very best of your abilities, your capacities? Can you trust this river, then? Can you trust yourself, then, to swim any distance, to navigate any tides & currents &

SLOWLY. UNWAVERING

Apprenticeship to Love: Chapter 296, October 6 * Today's questions: How are you honouring the gift of this moment? * My practice today: 6am: Yogic postures, mantra, Lower Triangle meditation TODAY'S MEDITATION I am feeling familiar pains. Familiar distractions. Growing pains? Perhaps. What will happen if I choose

BEGIN HERE, NOW

Apprenticeship to Love: Chapter 289, September 29 * Today's questions: Always this: How am I not hearing, not seeing, not feeling, not receiving what is already here for me? * My practice today: 5am: Yogic postures, mantra, Lower Triangle meditation TODAY'S MEDITATION With the passing of the equinox,

THIS MOMENT OF EQUIVOCATION

Apprenticeship to Love: Chapter 281, September 21 * Today's questions: How do you allow yourself to feel all of this moment, and then allow yourself to fall through it, feeling it all, holding yourself, somehow knowing and trusting yourself to guide you through into what comes next? * My practice

CAN I LEARN FROM A WOMAN? Part I

Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 280, September 20, 2024 * Today's question: Do you know how you resist learning, how you resist receiving? Do you know how to turn this resistance into the willingness to enter the flow that is calling you? * My practice today: 4:30am yoga postures, Ganesha

POLARITY & THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD, PART II

Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 274, September 14, 2024 * Today's question: Who blesses you with heartbreak and mystery? And, How do you honour this one? * My practice today: to sleep in and be woken by men hammering on rebar at 6:30am. My meditation will have to happen later

POLARITY & THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD, PART 1

Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 265, August 30, 2024 * My practice today: 2:30am, asanas; meditation and mantra for the heart TODAY'S MEDITATION I am marrying several couples in the coming year. What they have in common: they are already in the thick of it. Sharing a home. Raising

A SUBTLE SHIFT

Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 268, August 27, 2024 * Today’s question: What is your gift to the world? How are you sharing this gift? * My practice today: 4am, asanas, Healing Hum mantra and meditation TODAY'S MEDITATION The season changes. By the calendar of my garden and the forests

THIS CROOKED PATH

Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 259, August 24, 2024 TODAY'S MEDITATION I started this day, after asanas, reading. And here I paraphrase one of the gifts of this early morning: The reason for my existence is found in my compassionate experience of the stranger who opens my heart with

IT IS NEVER TOO LATE

Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 253, August 18, 2024 * Today’s questions: What mistakes do you still need to forgive yourself for? What would you do, or stop doing, right now in your life if you would drop all fear of making mistakes? (from Kundalini Yoga School, The Knowing Heart sadhana)

ASHES & GIFTS

Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 247, August 12, 2024 * Today’s questions: Ask your heart, What is it that you would like me to know, what you would like to tell me, what you would like me to remember? (from Kundalini Yoga School, The Knowing Heart sadhana) * Today's suggested

THE SHIMMERING OF THE LEAVES

Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 245, August 10, 2024 * Today’s questions: Is your life orderly, structured, purposeful? Or is it sometimes crumbling, a shambles, looking for direction? And either way, What do you DO with this awareness? * Today's suggested practice: to sit with your own resistance to learning

TO WELCOME WHAT IS STRANGE, & ESPECIALLY IN THE WOMEN WE LOVE

Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 235, August 5, 2024 * Today’s questions: What feels too strange today? Too different to be allowed to rest in your heart? What happens when —if only for a moment— you see this strangess as a gift, this stranger as a guest, to be fêted, received?

STIRRED BY THE RIVER

Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 217, July 27, 2024 * Today’s questions: What are you in a hurry for? What presses you as if it cannot wait? And, What happens when you learn to wait for it come to you? * Today's suggested practice: to sit with your own resistance

SUMMERTIME BLUES

Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 207, July 17, 2024 * Today’s questions: How long can I hold confusion before I collapse —or, before it blossoms as love? How long? And, am I able to let myself rest, to return to feeling it all, allowing it all to blossom into love, beauty,

SURRENDERING TO RECIEVE

Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 204, July 14, 2024 * Today’s questions: How long can you hold confusion before you collapse —or, before it blossoms as love? How long? * Today's suggested practice: to sit with your own resistance to learning what you already know & receive as love... (see

AND HE TELLS ME I AM HIS OWN

Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 198, July 8, 2024 * Today’s questions: How strangely does love make itself felt in your life? What happens when you hold this strangeness gently, and welcome it in? * Today's suggested practice: to sit with your own resistance to learning what you already know

TO HOLD THIS OCEAN OF FEELING

Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 189, June 29, 2024 * Today’s questions: What does this moment feel like? Is the feeling known, or is there confusion? Can you hold this, gently, and allow it to move in your body? * Today's suggested practice: to sit with your own resistance to

TRICKSTERS, FIDELITY, RECEIVING

Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 183, June 23, 2024 * Today’s questions: What can you give, to remember the holiness of your brokenheartedness, and how it prepares you for love? * Today's suggested practice: to sit with your own resistance to learning what you know will change your life... (see

SHE BEARS STRANGE GIFTS

Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 178, June 18, 2024 * Today’s questions: How are you allowing yourself to feel the bitterness of the strange that sweetens the familiar in this moment of living? * Today's suggested practice: to sit with your own resistance to learning what you know will change

I HAVE SO MUCH TO LEARN...

Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 168, June 8, 2024 * Today’s questions: What wisdom is calling you? And how are you resisting? * Today's suggested practice: to sit with your own resistance to learning what you know will change your life... (see my "Short Practice,” below) * My practice today:

DEATH & POETRY

Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 161, May 31, 2024 * Today’s questions: What lies, hidden, in the deep shadows of your understandings? What does your seeing unsee? * Today's suggested practice: to breathe and feel the tension, pressure, friction, and stress, and then allowing it to become more beautiful than

DEATH & THE BLESSINGS OF STRANGERS

Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 27, May 27, 2024 * Today’s questions: Who sees you? And, what stranger do you see? * Today's suggested practice: to breathe and feel the tension, pressure, friction, and stress, and then allowing it to become more beautiful than you can imagine... (see my "