Before I’d left for India a week ago, I got a stack of new books from the library. In one of them, Pema Chodron said something that leapt out at me. It went something like this: we are always in transition. Such a simple statement, yet so true. We are always in transition. […]

Sometimes, we need a new way of looking at the same thing for us to be able to adopt it fully. I have been doing yoga for the last couple of months now. This is not the first time I’ve attempted yoga. But this is the first time that it has started to work for me. […]

Always feeling can become a bad habit. Swimming in the sea of sensations, caught up in the rip-tide of emotions, it’s easy to lose sight of the reality of a shore, a solid ground that can hold us just as well as the never-ending ocean. Looking back, there was a time in my life when I was practical, aware of what was happening around me, aware of how the people around affected me. […]

What is your relationship with your body? Is it a shell that houses your mind? Is it something that you just carry around with you? Or is the relationship sacred? Do you feel as if your entire life is built on its foundation, as if it is the testing ground for your truth? Lately, I have been exploring my relationship to my body. […]

Are you someone who feels like they can’t get off the ground? Your energy is scattered and you can’t contain an idea long enough to bring it into fruition. You might live in your head too much. You might give more importance to spirituality than you do to day-to-day practical matters. Or you might be addicted to the limitlessness of ideas and fantasy, and not be able to sort through them, pare them down. […]