The Yoga of Kindness
Several years ago, I was preparing to teach a week-long immersion on the Yoga Sūtras. I had spent the better part of 6 months going over a hefty selection of essential sūtras with my teacher, Vyaas Houston, as well having bi-weekly conversations with him to deepen my understanding of the overall philosophical and psychological underpinnings of the text. I was chanting the Yoga Sūtras in Sanskrit from memory as well as cultivating a powerful meditation practice drawn from the
Beyond the Need to Fix – First Steps To Freedom
In my therapy practice, one pattern that shows up with frequency, and has the impact of limiting clients from being able to experience the unbounded freedom of the present moment, is the habituated need to “fix” the past. If only they could fix what went wrong, life would be happy and fulfilling. When the need to fix the past enters, the present moment, the only place where the power of choice exists, becomes weighed down by the unrealistic demand that it vindicate all that h
