This new relationship to ground helps sense how our body instinctively knows how to support us. Rather than bracing, we learn to listen, adapt and release. To let the weight of our body fall the full distance to the centre of the earth, and trust that distance to be answered and rebound. This is the oldest Bandha.
Read MoreI once read about Pando, the famous quaking aspen colony in Utah. What looks like a forest of forty thousand individual trees is, in fact, one organism: a single root system that has been sending up genetically identical trunks for possibly thousands of years. Every tree entirely intertwined and dependent on the others. Not one of them standing alone.
Read MoreYesterday, one month since the accident, was the first day of my retreat in the Spanish mountains. This is where we’ve spent our summers the last fourteen years, in practice and community. Never had I imagined connecting with my Mountain Sangha on Zoom…
Read MoreIn the last weeks I chose to share some of my personal experiences on Instagram, something I rarely do. I made an exception because it feels so important to be reminded of the fragility of this precious human life, and of our absolute belonging to each other. I'm now a few weeks in, and can offer slightly more here.
Read MoreMettā Bhāvanā, the Cultivation of Care, is one of the four pillars of what I call Yoga Bhāvanā. Its teachings are deeply rooted in the Buddhist practice of Loving Kindness, sometimes translated simply as Friendliness.
Read MoreZen teaches that when we look deeply enough, the heart reflects back what it witnesses without getting entangled in it. It’s a way of living with equanimity and wisdom, responding to life with clarity rather than reactivity.
Read MoreIn plain English, Bhāvanā can be understood as Cultivation, Becoming, or Bringing into Being - even Practice. It is said to be the word the Buddha used the most…
Read MoreTrue openness of heart asks for courage. It requires an inner confidence that is paradoxically rooted in an undefendedness. This organic openheartedness is intuited rather than obliged, and it finds its root in our Deep Belly Centre, the Hara.
Read MoreThe turning of the year is such a powerful time in our practice. It’s a point of culmination where we have the opportunity to begin fresh, witnessing anew what it means to be alive in these times.
Read MoreWe are so proud to share The Breath Space, our new album released today!
Born from a live soundscape session during my in-depth training in Paris, this album is a meditation on breath – a sonic journey designed to accompany you in practice.
I like to keep my ideas open ended – always leaving a crack for something new to come in. More often than not, there are no right answers, only shifting perspectives – and the more viewpoints we can open to, the richer our world becomes. What I have come to trust is that there is something to be learned from the process itself – regardless of the outcome.
Read MoreI’m grateful to offer a recorded shamatha meditation, allowing us to enter into practice together. The instructions remain disarmingly simple. We take our seat, we check in, we set our motivation and we follow our breath. There is nothing more simple and ordinary than the practice of meditation – and there is nothing more extraordinary and profound than the practice of meditation…
Read MoreMaturation on the path moves in a rhythm: we reach out to receive teachings and guidance, and then we reach in to reflect, digest, and integrate. This rhythm makes practice a living dialogue between the wisdom we encounter and the truths reviled through our own embodiment.
Read MoreDuring my yearly Retreat at Purple Valley I was asked to share the practice closest to my heart: Shamatha – a meditation that has been part of my daily morning ritual for decades now. If you were to go down the Buddhist path, you would begin with this practice.
Read MoreGrief, though deeply personal, is also utterly universal. It is a thread that weaves through every human heart. Still our culture often fails to acknowledges or make space for it.
Read MoreSimplicity is one of the most fundamental themes of the earliest teachings of the Buddha. It is considered an essential quality for deepening practice.
Read MoreIt is with an impossibly broken heart I share the passing of our most beloved Maura. There are no words that can encompass the depth of the loss we are moving through.
Read MoreThere’s something quietly radical about hitting the pause button on life, stepping away from the usual noise, and making the deliberate choice to retreat – to tune in to what truly matters.
Read MoreThe turning of the year is such a powerful moment in our practice. A time of culmination and possibility, where we can tap into the energy of shared intention and renewal. For me, it is a call for internal listening and reflection.
Read MoreGranularity, or the ability to differentiate between subtle variations, is gradually withering from our common language. We often use broad terms like ”fine” or ”great” to describe a wide range of experiences. In contrast, some other languages like Icelandic have more than 40 words to describe snow alone.
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