My Birthday Gift

My Birthday Gift

This morning during my meditation I set the intention to have a really good day and feel happy. Not that I don’t wish that on every day but today was my birthday and aren’t we suppose to be happy on our birthday? Lately I’ve been noticing I’ve been in a medium state,...

My Father’s Passing. Love Never Dies.

It was Saturday, September 5th, and I was on my way to fire island to work for the day. I opened my email in the morning and deleted the usual gazillion emails from my Dad, most of them silly forwards. My Dad had a stroke around 14 years ago and never fully recovered;...

Aging Gracefully

Whenever I see a flower and look carefully at it, noticing the brilliance and depth of the color deep in the center I think of a woman’s beauty. The superficial trappings of the world we live in, especially in our culture with all the beauty magazines everywhere, the...

Practice Dying

When I first started studying Buddhism back in 2003 I learned a powerful meditation technique that made a lasting impression on my mind to this day; it was meditating on your death.  A lot of people have a negative response when I talk about this meditation, saying...

Gifts From My Yoga Students

One of my yoga classes that I have been teaching for the last 4 years at a corporation has had its last hurrah. Although this was a pretty unconventional yoga class, done in the cafeteria, on a cold, hard, dirty floor with ants and loud warning bells going off in the...