Gratitude and Giving

May 28, 2007

Last fall, Susan invited me to consider taking on Seva as the Dakshina coordinator for my local meditation center. This means that I am the point person for giving to our center and SYDA, the foundation that supports the global mission. Now, this made me deeply uncomfortable for several reasons: I tend to avoid sharing [...]

Letting go

April 15, 2007

So, the theme of the last month has been getting rid of stuff: trying to align my current possessions and situation with who I am now and who I intend to become, rather than who I have been. I have gotten rid of my old stamp collection – bartered it to a friend making and [...]

Business process and … reincarnation?

January 29, 2007

So, I’ve owned a copy of Michael E. Gerber’s E-Myth Mastery for about a year and a half now. Something about its size (over 400 pages) and the grandiose subtitle “The Seven Essential Disciplines for Building a World Class Company” put me off. I think the timing was also bad. I purchased it near the [...]

My current favorite spot

January 22, 2007

The sauna at A2YogaWorks after a nia or yoga class.

Yoga trance dance

January 7, 2007

In late summer, my friend Victoria and I followed an ad in the Ann Arbor Observer for “yoga trance dance”. It brought us to an unfamiliar yoga studio on a Saturday night. No one was there, but the door was open, so we let ourselves in. Excited and unsure, we and another stranger waited in [...]