“May your mind inhabit life with the sureness with which your body inhabits the world.” —John O’Donohue There were no lines. No anxious cattle-herding. We walked right into the bright, clean school gymnasium. It had been transformed into a site of efficiency and safety—and clearlyread more

from Part I of (c) Sense-Care is Self-Care: Āyurveda & Yoga for Mental Resilience (2026) “Why would you want to do that?” The words came out of my mouth faster than my brain could catch them. Everyone in the room—my dozen or so classmates, the teacher,read more

In 2025, after many years of posting my writings and reflections on yoga teaching and Ayurveda here on my personal website, I decided to “expand my audience” by opening a Substack account. Hoping to reach new readers who also appreciated long-form writing, I developed aread more

The loved ones we call the dead depart from us and for a while are absent. And then as if called back by our love, they come near us again. Then enter our dreams.  We feel they have been near us when we have notread more

In the end, they got me with the tote bag. Back when I fled the publishing industry, I went through a period of radical cleansing of all ties with the publications I used to regularly consume for work (and sometimes for pleasure). This included Theread more

What’s your love language? Until very recently, I believed mine was “words of affirmation.” Maybe it was because I’m a word person—a reader, a writer, someone who expresses what’s in her mind most directly, thoroughly, and sincerely in writing. But as we come into theread more

If you’re reading this at the approximate date/time it’s been posted (Monday, November 4, 2024), it’s a slightly brighter morning, and maybe you feel a bit more rested. No one seems to remember these aspects of falling back into daylight savings time, which went intoread more

we will wear new bones again. we will leave these rainy days, break out through another mouth into sun and honey time. worlds buzz over us like bees, we be splendid in new bones. other people think they know how long life is how strongread more

Well now really when we go back into falling in love. And say, it’s crazy. Falling. You see? We don’t say “rising into love”. There is in it, the idea of the fall. And it goes back, as a matter of fact, to extremely fundamentalread more

A lover knows only humility, he has no choice… —Rumi Whenever I travel, I set out with the goal of returning with fewer things, a lighter bag, than when I left. Sometimes it’s the food that I packed to eat on the way or while away,read more