Fear lives in the future and draws us out of the present. This practice helps you learn how to get in touch with your emotions and stay with them and stay present. When you become aware of your fear and how it affects your body you are bringing your mind back to the present.

The day after I published my last post I felt regret about calling "weed your soul garden" - this practice I embarked on - a cleanse. I wish there was another word, something bigger, less mundane.

Our culture has programmed us for "doing", producing and moving. Stillness can be scary but it is in stillness that our intuition rises so we can capture our creativity and dream.

For most of my life I have carried around a low-grade depression like a rock in my pocket. I have always identified and found comfort in sadness. Like home, it has been a place to go back to.

My intention was to send this out before the fall equinox but as life throws curveballs I am experiencing first hand the need for flexibility - isn't that a perfect initiation into balance. 

I truly discovered the benefit of props when I started to study at an Iyengar studio. I had been taking Vinyasa and Hatha classes for years and was feeling in a rut - I felt good about my meditation and Pranayama but my asana practice was stagnant.