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how are you meeting the moment?

January 29, 2026 in Blog

Earlier this month in sadhana, my opening share was a question—an invitation to reflect. Even as the words were tumbling out of my mouth, it felt important: how are you meeting the moment?

I want to begin by saying clearly and emphatically that any amount of fury, outrage, despair, or grief that you are experiencing should not be ignored or repressed. Those feelings are not bad or wrong, and it does not make you weak or over sensitive if that’s what is present in your inner landscape. In fact, it makes you very fully human. Whatever you find when you turn inward, I urge you to make space to feel it fully.… Read the rest

now is not the time

January 5, 2026 in Blog

If you’ve jumped into 2026 with both feet—word of the year chosen, resolutions set, new gym membership activated, and a sparkling lease on life in hand—good for you. Truly. I aspire to that.

And if that’s not you, take heart. Perhaps for you, like me, now is not the time.

Whether you cherish and adore the end of year festivities, or it’s more of a grin-and-bear-it situation, the holidays can be a lot—on every level. Many of us spend weeks, sometimes months, under enormous internal and external pressure. Add outsized expectations, busyness, loneliness, traffic, family dynamics, too much of too much and not enough of what actually nourishes us, and you’ve got an extended season of physical, mental, and emotional swirl.… Read the rest

big news from the blue – Dec 2025

December 29, 2025 in Blog
Beloved Blue Community, 

As we head toward the close of the year, I’ve been reflecting on the incredible journey we’ve shared — from fourteen years on N. West Street to five unexpected and beautiful years of practicing, studying and retreating together online and in occasional spaces and places in person. What began as a yoga studio became something much bigger: a home for connection, curiosity, presence, and growth.

Over the past year, it’s become clear that blue lotus, as a formal container, has been gently completing itself. The rhythm has changed, teachers and students have stepped into new chapters, and the energy that sustained this space for nearly two decades has naturally evolved into something new.

… Read the rest

The Spiral of Becoming

November 6, 2025 in Blog

Rewind to May 2024.

I was thick in a season of change and transformation. I was systematically scrutinizing my patterns, habits, choices and desires. I was actively challenging old stories, assumptions and declarations I’d made (and clung to) about who I thought I was, and what I did and didn’t do. Generally speaking, I was getting myself unstuck from much of what had been holding me back from living a happier and fuller version of my Self and my life. I’d finally found a methodology to bridge the gap between all that I’ve studied, practiced and taught for more than twenty five years and making it real in my life in a consistent and practical way.… Read the rest

what is meaningful

October 1, 2025 in Blog

Last month, I found myself circling around a question that kept surfacing in conversations, in client sessions, and late-night scrolling: What’s the point? When the world feels like it’s unraveling at the seams, it’s easy to wonder what, if anything, matters at all. What emerged from that reflection was the reminder that the point—our purpose—isn’t found in titles, roles, or accomplishments, but in the aliveness of our being. It’s found in our ability to express the fullness of the soul, regardless of external circumstances. “The point” of it all is to become the truest, most authentic version of ourselves, not someday, but now.… Read the rest

What’s the Point?

September 2, 2025 in Blog

There’s heaviness in the air, and I’m paying attention. Why? Because when a theme arrives in my world multiple times— through client sessions, chats with friends, or a random scroll through social media—it feels like a messenger from the universe. One to be met with presence. Lately, one keeps ringing out: It feels like everything is crumbling—what’s the point?

I get it. If you are paying even a little bit of attention, it’s not a huge leap to feel like it’s the end of the world (or at least the end of the world as we know it). This feeling can lead straight to despondency, hopelessness, and a sense of powerlessness.… Read the rest

Time

July 31, 2025 in Blog

I’ve had a fraught relationship with time for as long as I can remember. The persistent and heavy feeling that there is never enough time— to get it all done, to finish the task list, to make the impact I feel called to make— lingers, no matter my efforts to shake it. Even when I think I’ve managed to banish the urgency, it never lasts. Right now, it’s about trying (futilely) to fit in all the people, places, work, play, and general life necessities into the 24/7 we are allotted. Sound familiar? Enter dharana (concentration): reminding us to focus on one thing at a time.… Read the rest

beyond samskara

June 2, 2025 in Blog

We are, in so many ways, creatures of habit and repetition– pattern-seeking beings at both the conscious and unconscious levels. Unless we actively intervene, each of us are (literally) bound to think the same thoughts, feel the same feelings, tell ourselves the same stories, and unconsciously make the same deleterious choices—and then wonder with dismay why things don’t change. We question how it is that we end up in the same place again and again.

In Eastern philosophy, this is called samskara: the grooves or imprints left on the mind by past actions, thoughts, and experiences. Samskaras are the ruts we fall into, usually without realizing it.… Read the rest

conscious creation

May 8, 2025 in Blog

Conscious Creation (unwinding the stories we never meant to live)

So much of our lives are shaped by stories we didn’t consciously choose. Stories that were absorbed and internalized before we had the capacity to question them. We took on labels, expectations, and roles without even realizing it. Why? Because at some point, our brain and nervous system decided: this is what I need to do to stay safe, to be loved, to belong.

For me, one of those stories landed in grade school, when I was stamped with the label “gifted and talented.” At the time, I didn’t know whether I should feel proud or embarrassed.… Read the rest

the necessity of wonder

March 31, 2025 in Blog

“Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment you have experienced.”  
— Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

Things are looking bleak. Not that I needed any confirmation, but when a friend—whose general outlook is one of magical illumination—sent me a text that included the phrase “before the end of the world,” I knew it wasn’t just me feeling this way. With that in mind, I’ve been making choices accordingly. So when the opportunity arose to once again horn in on my brother’s family vacation, I grabbed a friend and jumped at the chance without hesitation. This was my third visit to the tiny island nation of Iceland and there was not a single moment of disappointment: exploring ice caves nestled over active volcanoes, soaking in a geothermal river on the side of a moss and snow-covered mountain, watching wild waves crash onto a black sand beach from my perch on a tall basalt wall.… Read the rest