by Julie Nadler This week I was supposed to be at a five-day silent meditation retreat led by Pascal Auclair, True North Insight Meditation. I was looking forward to the change of pace/focus that a silent retreat offers. A respite. A chance to self-heal. An opportunity to be device-free and to let the retreat schedule…
Details“Have fun,” one of my students called out just before she floated down the stairs and out onto the street. I was quite sure fun was not going to be on the menu for this 6-day silent meditation retreat. A more appropriate wish might have been, “Have a meaningful time.” Previous to this I had…
Detailsby Malcolm McLean I have been meditating on the term “pro life”: literally, to be on the side of life. Surely a worthy place to be! In the yoga tradition, reverence and defence of life flow from the yamas, our code of conduct, which includes ahimsa, non-violence. So we answer yes to…
DetailsLast winter, when you picked your way down an icy NDG sidewalk, did you do so with purposeful, prudent steadiness; or with mind in turmoil and fearful footing. Did you have balance? That graceful Tango progression you pulled off, finally, after an evening of struggling and feeling like roadkill? When your balance kicked…
DetailsJanuary 2017 We had been together since winter, 2014. A year and a half later, summer 2015, found us at Kripalu taking a teacher training in partners/couples yoga. There had been a recent hiatus in our relationship of about 4 months. When we reunited it was tentative and some wounds had not been completely healed.…
DetailsSummer 2016 In 1992 when I first read Naomi Wolf’s The Beauty Myth a few ideas that had been swirling around in my feminist consciousness suddenly came together. Who decides what is feminine? Who decides what feminine beauty is? Back then the answer was not so obvious but today it is: women themselves do. Today…
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