Dear Friends, As we come to the end of this month, I would like offer my gratitude – to the teachings, the teachers, and to each of you who joined in this shared exploration. Over these past weeks, we’ve explored the elements as a way of meeting experience:earth as support,water as flow,fire as energy and transformation,air as movement… Read More »
Dear Friends, As we come toward the end of this month, today is an invitation to pause and look back at the elements – not as separate topics, but as a way of seeing experience as a whole. Over the past weeks, we have explored: While we have taken them up one at a time, the elements are… Read More »
Dear Friends, Today we bring our exploration of the air element into direct practice. Over the past few days, we have been invited to notice air as movement, exchange, and shared breath – flowing through bodies and environments, connecting inside and outside. Today’s practice offers a way to experience this directly, through embodied awareness. I invite you to… Read More »
Dear Friends, Yesterday, we explored the air element as shared breath – moving through bodies, environments, and time. Today’s reflection is an invitation to stay with that sense of exchange and connection, noticing how it shows up in ordinary experience. To open the reflection, I would like to name a poem that feels especially aligned with this exploration:… Read More »
Dear Friends, Over the past several days, we have explored the air element as breath, motion, and continual change. Yesterday, we paused to cultivate equanimity – learning how to meet change with steadiness and care. Today, we return to the air element to explore what it can show us about not-self in a very practical way. With air,… Read More »
Dear Friends, Over the past days, we have been exploring the air element – movement, breath, and continual change. It feels important to acknowledge that this exploration is unfolding at a time when the world itself feels especially unsettled. Many of us are taking in heavy news: lives lost, ongoing wars, threats to democratic systems, and a sense… Read More »
Dear Friends, Today we bring our exploration of the air element into direct practice. Over the past two days, we have been getting familiar with air as movement, motion, and pressure – how it animates breath, posture, and subtle shifts in the body. The practice today offers a way to sense this element directly. I invite you to… Read More »
Dear Friends, Yesterday we began exploring the air element as movement, motion, and pressure. The reflection today is an invitation to notice how these qualities show up in your own experience. Air is most obvious through the breath, but it is not limited to breathing alone. Movement shows up in many ways: the subtle shifts of posture, the… Read More »
Dear Friends, Today we begin exploring the air (or wind) element. After working with fire, we turn toward a subtler but equally present set of qualities: movement, motion, and pressure. The air element is what moves. It animates breath, circulation, digestion, and the countless small shifts that keep the body alive. In the early teachings, the air element… Read More »
Dear Friends, Today we close our exploration of the fire element with a practice that emphasizes balance, settling, and integration. Over the past days, we have explored fire as warmth, energy, and transformation and noticing how these qualities arise according to conditions, rather than belonging to a fixed self. The reflection yesterday widened the lens, inviting a sense… Read More »
Dear Friends, Yesterday, we explored the fire element through the lens of not-self – noticing how warmth, energy, and transformation arise according to conditions, without belonging to a fixed “me.” The reflection today invites us to widen that perspective, letting the sense of not mine, not me, not my self extend beyond the boundaries of the individual body.… Read More »
Dear Friends, Over the past several days, we have explored the fire element as warmth, energy, and transformation. Today, we look more closely at what fire can teach us about not-self – about how experience unfolds without belonging to a fixed “me.” In the teachings, reflecting on the elements sometimes includes a simple and radical reorientation:This is not… Read More »
Dear Friends, After several days exploring the fire element – warmth, energy, and transformation – we pause today to cultivate joy. In this context, joy is not about excitement, achievement, or trying to feel good. It is closer to a steady warmth – a gladness that can arise when energy is balanced and life is allowed to unfold… Read More »
Dear Friends, Today we bring our exploration of the fire element into direct practice. Over the past two days, we have been getting familiar with fire as warmth, energy, and transformation – how it activates, digests, and powers movement. Today’s practice offers a simple way to sense this element directly, as it is already present in the body.… Read More »
Dear Friends, Yesterday we began exploring the fire element as warmth, energy, and transformation. Today is an invitation to reflect on how these qualities show up in your own experience. Fire expresses itself differently from moment to moment, and part of getting to know this element is simply seeing how variable it can be. You might begin by… Read More »
