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Stoked By Fall

Slam, slam. Rev, rev. And away we drove from the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in the beautiful Berkshire mountains, away from a five-day

I’m Still Blessed

A few weeks ago, while in Connecticut, I woke early and stumbled into the lobby of my hotel searching for coffee. While fixing my cuppa

Heading Straight into Stillness

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn

My Call to Silence

I have been feeling a pull to the north all week long. For the past few days I’ve felt subtly directed to clean my house

#50: Stable Body, Stable Mind and the Purpose of Meditation

Most people want to feel better, calmer and more at ease. Most want to settle their frenzied, non-stop mind. In this episode Cara debunks and demystifies meditation and the purpose behind this invaluable mental practice. She explains why stabilizing your nervous system ultimately settles your mind and how breathing in a deep and balanced pattern immediately calms your

#42: Ready to Rock My Birthday

In this episode Cara shares her birthday bliss by describing her simple daily practices and how they help her build a framework for maintaining balance and steadiness. She offers advice on how to stay committed and flexible to a set of practices that include moving your body, breathing, and meditation. Cara is particularly pumped up in this

Meet Your Mind

#20: Meet Your Mind

You likely have a daily regime to train your body to be fit and healthy. Have you ever considered having a daily practice to train your mind? This week Cara talks about mindfulness meditation as mental strength training. She explains how “meeting your mind” can help you not only get to know yourself better but to also improve

#6: Your Busy Mind

What is your busy mind so busy doing? What is going on between your ears? In this episode Cara gives you  clues.  She explains the 5 qualities of the Busy Mind including Sloppy Brain, Information Overload, and Auto-Pilot. Cara also encourages you to understand the benefits of mental strength training or mind training. Lastly, there’s also

#4: Finding Inner Silence

Silence is golden but is lacking in our culture. We are constantly barraged by outer and inner noise leaving us feeling frazzled and depleted. Finding silence is like finding the pause button enabling us to put everything on hold and get clear on direction guiding us from within. In this episode discover how to reduce your outer

Does this experience make me feel clear, bright, and fully alive?

I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. — Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth I have always wanted to feel as though I were standing in the center of the field, in the middle of the game, alert and

Stoked By Fall

Slam, slam. Rev, rev. And away we drove from the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in the beautiful Berkshire mountains, away from a five-day retreat called Being Fully Alive: The Joy of Clarity, Strength, and Freedom, away from a fantastic few days with my teaching partner Jennifer Schelter and our new best friends, and

I’m Still Blessed

A few weeks ago, while in Connecticut, I woke early and stumbled into the lobby of my hotel searching for coffee. While fixing my cuppa joe, I paused and noticed the space and stillness of the early morning and was grateful that time to sit down and enjoy my coffee before the day got going.

Heading Straight into Stillness

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ~Henry David Thoreau For the past several weeks I have been feeling a

My Call to Silence

I have been feeling a pull to the north all week long. For the past few days I’ve felt subtly directed to clean my house and settle my accounts.  You see I write this post on my way up to The Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY where for the next seven days I will live

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