BEGIN HERE, NOW Apprenticeship to Love: Chapter 289, September 29 * Today's questions: Always this: How am I not hearing, not seeing, not feeling, not receiving what is already here for me? * My practice today: 5am: Yogic postures, mantra, Lower Triangle meditation TODAY'S MEDITATION With the passing of the equinox,
THIS MOMENT OF EQUIVOCATION Apprenticeship to Love: Chapter 281, September 21 * Today's questions: How do you allow yourself to feel all of this moment, and then allow yourself to fall through it, feeling it all, holding yourself, somehow knowing and trusting yourself to guide you through into what comes next? * My practice
CAN I LEARN FROM A WOMAN? Part I Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 280, September 20, 2024 * Today's question: Do you know how you resist learning, how you resist receiving? Do you know how to turn this resistance into the willingness to enter the flow that is calling you? * My practice today: 4:30am yoga postures, Ganesha
POLARITY & THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD, PART II Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 274, September 14, 2024 * Today's question: Who blesses you with heartbreak and mystery? And, How do you honour this one? * My practice today: to sleep in and be woken by men hammering on rebar at 6:30am. My meditation will have to happen later
POLARITY & THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD, PART 1 Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 265, August 30, 2024 * My practice today: 2:30am, asanas; meditation and mantra for the heart TODAY'S MEDITATION I am marrying several couples in the coming year. What they have in common: they are already in the thick of it. Sharing a home. Raising
A SUBTLE SHIFT Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 268, August 27, 2024 * Today’s question: What is your gift to the world? How are you sharing this gift? * My practice today: 4am, asanas, Healing Hum mantra and meditation TODAY'S MEDITATION The season changes. By the calendar of my garden and the forests
THIS CROOKED PATH Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 259, August 24, 2024 TODAY'S MEDITATION I started this day, after asanas, reading. And here I paraphrase one of the gifts of this early morning: The reason for my existence is found in my compassionate experience of the stranger who opens my heart with
IT IS NEVER TOO LATE Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 253, August 18, 2024 * Today’s questions: What mistakes do you still need to forgive yourself for? What would you do, or stop doing, right now in your life if you would drop all fear of making mistakes? (from Kundalini Yoga School, The Knowing Heart sadhana)
ASHES & GIFTS Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 247, August 12, 2024 * Today’s questions: Ask your heart, What is it that you would like me to know, what you would like to tell me, what you would like me to remember? (from Kundalini Yoga School, The Knowing Heart sadhana) * Today's suggested
THE SHIMMERING OF THE LEAVES Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 245, August 10, 2024 * Today’s questions: Is your life orderly, structured, purposeful? Or is it sometimes crumbling, a shambles, looking for direction? And either way, What do you DO with this awareness? * Today's suggested practice: to sit with your own resistance to learning
TO WELCOME WHAT IS STRANGE, & ESPECIALLY IN THE WOMEN WE LOVE Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 235, August 5, 2024 * Today’s questions: What feels too strange today? Too different to be allowed to rest in your heart? What happens when —if only for a moment— you see this strangess as a gift, this stranger as a guest, to be fêted, received?
STIRRED BY THE RIVER Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 217, July 27, 2024 * Today’s questions: What are you in a hurry for? What presses you as if it cannot wait? And, What happens when you learn to wait for it come to you? * Today's suggested practice: to sit with your own resistance
SUMMERTIME BLUES Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 207, July 17, 2024 * Today’s questions: How long can I hold confusion before I collapse —or, before it blossoms as love? How long? And, am I able to let myself rest, to return to feeling it all, allowing it all to blossom into love, beauty,
SURRENDERING TO RECIEVE Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 204, July 14, 2024 * Today’s questions: How long can you hold confusion before you collapse —or, before it blossoms as love? How long? * Today's suggested practice: to sit with your own resistance to learning what you already know & receive as love... (see
AND HE TELLS ME I AM HIS OWN Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 198, July 8, 2024 * Today’s questions: How strangely does love make itself felt in your life? What happens when you hold this strangeness gently, and welcome it in? * Today's suggested practice: to sit with your own resistance to learning what you already know
TO HOLD THIS OCEAN OF FEELING Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 189, June 29, 2024 * Today’s questions: What does this moment feel like? Is the feeling known, or is there confusion? Can you hold this, gently, and allow it to move in your body? * Today's suggested practice: to sit with your own resistance to
TRICKSTERS, FIDELITY, RECEIVING Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 183, June 23, 2024 * Today’s questions: What can you give, to remember the holiness of your brokenheartedness, and how it prepares you for love? * Today's suggested practice: to sit with your own resistance to learning what you know will change your life... (see
SHE BEARS STRANGE GIFTS Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 178, June 18, 2024 * Today’s questions: How are you allowing yourself to feel the bitterness of the strange that sweetens the familiar in this moment of living? * Today's suggested practice: to sit with your own resistance to learning what you know will change
I HAVE SO MUCH TO LEARN... Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 168, June 8, 2024 * Today’s questions: What wisdom is calling you? And how are you resisting? * Today's suggested practice: to sit with your own resistance to learning what you know will change your life... (see my "Short Practice,” below) * My practice today:
DEATH & POETRY Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 161, May 31, 2024 * Today’s questions: What lies, hidden, in the deep shadows of your understandings? What does your seeing unsee? * Today's suggested practice: to breathe and feel the tension, pressure, friction, and stress, and then allowing it to become more beautiful than
DEATH & THE BLESSINGS OF STRANGERS Apprenticeship to Love, Chapter 27, May 27, 2024 * Today’s questions: Who sees you? And, what stranger do you see? * Today's suggested practice: to breathe and feel the tension, pressure, friction, and stress, and then allowing it to become more beautiful than you can imagine... (see my "
A DEATHDAY, A BIRTHDAY, AND THE GIFTS OF STRANGERS CHAPTER 156: Apprenticeship to Love, May 26, 2024 * Today’s questions: How do you welcome the stranger into your life? Are you prepared for what they bring? * Today's suggested practice: to breathe and feel the tension, pressure, friction, and stress, and then allowing it to become more beautiful
CHAPTER 150: I SURRENDER, THAT I MAY LEAD Apprenticeship to Love, May 20, 2024 * Today’s questions: Where do I feel most attacked, most defensive? What would happen if I accepted that THIS is where my deepest learning, in this moment, waits for me? * Today's suggested practice: to breathe and feel the tension, pressure, friction, and
CHAPTER 145: IT'S NOT PRETTY Apprenticeship to Love, May 15, 2024 * Today’s questions: What do you most desire? Are you leaning into it? Are you leaning back from it, and allowing it to be more beautiful than you can imagine? What fear keeps you from leaning back? * Today's suggested practice: to breathe
CHAPTER 136: MY RESPONSIBILITY Apprenticeship to Love, May 10, 2024 * Today’s questions: What commitment am I afraid to make? What responsibility —for another's being loved, for my own being loved— am I hesitating to allow? * Today's suggested practice: to breathe and feel the tension, pressure, friction, and stress, and
