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Contemplating Consumption, Connection, and Unity
Collective Needs When I was in school we were exploring our individual needs and how they influence our capacity to both give and receive in compassionate ways. The discussion turned from individual needs to a curiosity about a collective need that we all hold....
Nature as Therapy
Stressed out? Need a way to reset? Stare at the above picture or any picture of nature. Seriously, studies have shown that focusing your attention for just 15 minutes decreases ruminating negative thoughts, lowers your heart rate, and improves your working memory....
5 ways to embody compassion
Do you feel overwhelmed by critical thoughts? Do you constantly judge yourself or feel that no matter what you do, you are never good enough? At times I, like everyone else, can feel like I am suffocating under the pressure created by what many call the Inner...
A physiological perspective: How meditation & yoga aid with therapy
Yoga & Meditation Yeah I know, meditation and yoga can easily be dismissed as fads, let's be honest, they're everywhere. They're being used to sell everything from spiritual salvation to underarm deodorant. I am not entirely sure of the latter; I haven't had cable...
Redefining unbecoming
Unbecoming to Become As a therapist and yoga teacher I naturally read a lot about yoga psychology. One of the main beliefs in yoga psychology is that we are at our core whole, healthy, and functional beings. The practice of yoga is to support us in witnessing all the...
That’s it ‘I am done with mindfulness’
“I am done with mindfulness” A friend of mind recently announced during one of our phone conversations. Immediately I was intrigued. What had mindfulness done to her? Why did she feel such a strong desire to push it away from her life? “I am sick of trying to be with...