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Joy When Joy enters our life, it is like a calm and deep flow of awareness. Happiness is wonderful as well, yet it is more like a feeling, and like the wind – coming and going. Joy however is more like the deep blue ocean, steady, deep, an amazingly beautiful gift. Whoever experiences joy doesContinue reading “Joy”

How to prepare? Sometimes we worry about the future: we anticipate challenges, we fear obstacles, we dread change. How to prepare? We sit in this very moment: we breathe deeply, we become one with our body, we smile at ourselves. We practice letting go: of our racing thoughts, of our negative predictions. We are presentContinue reading “How to prepare for tomorrow?”

Letting go There is this pull in us humans to control the flow of life, its natural development and the growth of things. Resisting this pull to control is the spiritual practice of “letting go” as in: Letting life be, letting it flow, letting it transform in its own time- in its own way. WhenContinue reading “Dance with Life”

Life after the Pandemic: “You can do this hard thing!” Carrie Newcomer’s Song: “You can do this hard thing” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRGnftH_g4I “Letting go gives us freedom,  and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.” ― Thich Nhat HanhContinue reading ““You can do this hard thing””

I completed my Yoga teacher training in 2022 with SoulWork, and I will start my two-year meditation teacher training with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach next month. My daughters are studying at Georgia State, and they created a beautiful apartment for themselves and for Luna and Stella their beloved cats. I have started my privateContinue reading “Some Personal Updates”

Why pray? What if I don’t believe in a God? Does prayer even work? What does prayer do? You don’t need to believe in God to pray. Prayer is not intended to “work” or “achieve” anything. Prayer does not “do” anything. You don’t “have to” pray… it is not a chore or a duty. PrayerContinue reading “Practicing Gratitude”

“Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again.Continue reading “Healing comes…”

                   “I have done my best today, and the rest – I let go”… So much has come at me today, so many tasks, challenges, people… I have met everything as best I could, And what I have missed, I let go… I let my feelings come and honor them as best as I amContinue reading “I have done my best today…”

“Joy  and Happiness arise from letting go. Please, sit down and take an inventory of your life. There are things you’ve been hanging on to that really are not useful and deprive you of your freedom. Find the courage to let them go.” Thich Nhat Hanh “Things” that deprive us of our freedom and thatContinue reading “Letting go…”

Sometimes what looks terrible can actually become a new opportunity… Or what seems the end of the world becomes the beginning of a new way of living… When we are in these transition times grieving the known that has come to an end And facing the unknown that we have not met nor begun toContinue reading “No Matter What- Love Yourself!”