Category: Personal Growth

Purification Precedes New Beginnings—Not There Yet!

Most reliable health sources tell us we are not at the end of COVID 19, and the consequence of reducing physical distancing means an increase in reported cases. The rush for economic results has already proven this warning to be…

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Love’s Secret

My heart is full having shared a Folk Festival virtual viewing with dearly loved friends. Note the Folk Festival wrist bands. This welcome gathering was safely allowed due to 10 days without the appearance of new COVID-19 cases. In the…

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Suspended Animation: a Time for Meditation

Each week another once taken-for-granted freedom returns as the number of COVID-19 cases declines. For our quarantined three months, a sense of suspended animation left time for us to experience a new normal. Although this journey appeared to be occurring…

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Pandemic Peace

As our national birthday approaches, our provincial borders begin to accommodate greater travel due to relaxing COVID 19 physical distancing restrictions. The heat of summer is upon us and with it brings the celebration of graduations and vacations. Positively speaking,…

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Workshops

Not everyone can do yoga poses, but everyone can do yoga actions.  Our Creating Space:  Yoga Actions books are the foundation of both our 200-hour Teacher Training and 300-hour Advanced Teacher Training programs.  We offer these training packages through yoga studios to individuals interested…

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Alone and Lonely? Three “Tried & True” Cures for Both

In order to discover what his constituents’ health concerns were, Vivek Murthy, former US Surgeon General, went on a “listening tour” to many of his American communities.  The stories he heard, in answer to his question “How can I be of help?”, uncovered what Murthy coined as a loneliness epidemic.

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Force Is Not Our Way — Choose Deep Collaboration not Command and Control

Alas, once again a militaristic, command and control style of governance is prevailing over Indigenous and Canadian relations.  Early Monday morning, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) arrested demonstrators at the rail blockade in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, near Belleville, Ontario. The…

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Good, Good, Good – Good Vibration: Test Your Vibes!

Harry Chapin: image by Cindy Funk All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration.  Bill Hicks Brian Wilson‘s 1966 song lyrics, “I’m pickin’ up good vibrations, she’s giving me excitations.  Good, good, good – good vibrations,” eludes to one of…

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Lessons on Love

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.William Shakespeare Somewhere between 1564 and 1616, Shakespeare wrote the words above.  If I were to read between his lines, I would suggest he was  advising us to lead with love.  Given…

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Mad Woman Laughing: Poetry for the Spirit

Madness, as in the theme of my soon-to-be-published poetry book, is a relative experience.  For instance, the three weeks leading up to Xmas day can be fraught with the chaos of gifts to buy, trees to adorn, lights to hang…

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