Yesterday I was at my part-time job at Crate and Barrel on Boylston Street in Boston, a mere 2 blocks from the Boston Marathon’s finish line, and I both felt and heard the two explosions. I was on the 2nd floor of the store standing at the window, cheerfully watching the runners zoom past, in [...]
Meditation
Finding Your Anchor
March 28th, 2013
I recently read a quote by Thich Nhat Hanh that super resonated with me: “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” I love the analogy of the breath being an anchor. According to Wikipedia: An anchor is a device, normally made of metal, that is used to connect [...]
Inspired by: Deepak Chopra
March 14th, 2013
I am participating in a 21-Day Meditation Challenge, organized by Oprah and Deepak Chopra. It started officially on March 11th, but you can sign up anytime. They’ve been sending an e-mail with a daily theme and mantra suggestion, so it’s a really helpful guide for when I sit at night to meditate. Yesterday my beau [...]
Home Altar
March 6th, 2013
I was inspired to create my very own home altar by the December Yoga Journal article “Devoted to You”. The tagline reads: “Make space for gratitude and inspiration with a beautiful home altar that celebrates the loves of your life and the qualities you want to embrace in yourself.” That one sentence contains some of [...]
Finding Peace
January 31st, 2013
While life guarding at the Omega Institute a number of years ago, I became friends with a guy who meditated every day, sometimes hours at a time. We’ll call him “Monsieur” (that’s “mister” in French). Anytime Monsieur had a problem to solve, he would go to an empty room on campus and meditate, until he [...]