May 6, 2025 | News, Reflection
I love how every time I teach a workshop, a class, or a retreat, things go differently than I imagine. It’s always a surprise. During our opening session – a drawing exercise to find focus and calm – instead of quiet attention to our work, there was...
Apr 20, 2025 | Challege, Reflection
If you’ve ever been asked to “set an intention” in a yoga class or “choose a mantra” in a meditation class, you may find yourself on repeat with your favorites: I am happy; I am healthy; I am worthy. Because in the moment, it can be...
May 19, 2024 | Reflection
On Sundays in my yoga class we focus on meditation. Every week we do a different form of meditation, because people find their way to inner stillness from many vectors. Today we practiced my own system, Drawing Meditations, where we use art to find insights, inner...
Oct 16, 2022 | Reflection
Once a month, I put on two hats at once and lead a Satoyama Yoga class that incorporates Drawing Meditation. Today we worked with mandalas. Before we started to draw, each of us set an intention or asked a question by writing it on the back of our...
