It is generous of yoga teachers to natter away at us when we are in the most complicated poses, distracting us from mounds of sensation which can be overwhelming. This morning, while we students were contorted into a particularly sweaty pigeon pose, the teacher began to riff. I wasn’t really listening until I heard herContinue reading >>
Releasing the Jaw
Tension has a way of following me around. I don’t think that this makes me unique, but it definitely makes me tense. Little things pile up with me. Even if I don’t want to care about something, even if I want to be one of those easy people who lets things roll off her back,Continue reading >>
War and Peace
I admitted recently that I may have set my expectations a bit too high for the summer that is currently beginning. The months from September to June made up a challenging season, which is why when I met with my spiritual director at the end of May I found myself saying “I have sort ofContinue reading >>
The Woman on the Mat Next to Mine
As a child, I occasionally became envious of girls more athletic than I. This was before I learned to envy women’s bodies, and only envied what those bodies could do. When I became jealous my mother in her wisdom would say to me “Margaret, I bet those girls can’t sing a note”. I wish IContinue reading >>
Finishing War and Peace by Pentecost
I had to go back and look through old posts to see if I had already used this title, since I thought about using it last year when I set the goal of reading War and Peace by Pentecost. The Pevear/Volokhonsky translation had finally come out in softcover and it arrived on my doorstep sometimeContinue reading >>