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