Reflections on Self-Compassion (How to be a Grown-up, Part II)
I have been consciously studying and practicing Self Compassion for a few years now and I am still amazed at the power of such a simple practice. It is the number one most useful way I’ve found so far to transform my experience of life from bravely surviving by the skin of my teeth to resiliently and joyfully […]
Self Compassion and Ahimsa, or, How to be a Grownup
I’ve been teaching yoga for around twenty years and I work at a place named after the Eight Limbs of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (compiled around 400 CE). The Yoga Sutras are basically a very practical (and surprisingly still applicable) guide on how to become a full expression of your most delicious and authentic […]
On Compassion
A couple years back, during a guided meditation on retreat, I was given the prompt, “Why are you here?” I don’t remember exactly how I silently answered that question but I think it was something along the lines of, to deepen my meditation practice. Whatever it was, it was a pretty standard response for the setting. And […]