Carless -> Careless?

June 6, 2007

Car-free for a week now. Not going too badly. Getting to the “distant” yoga studio has been easy. Once, I used my Go! Pass and made it to my yoga studio from work faster than it would have taken me to walk home, get my car, drive, and then park. Another day, I walked the [...]

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 [...]