Presence & A Writer’s Reservoir of Images
Thoreau, that perpetual present-moment monger and chanticleer to the blind and busy, wrote perhaps the most beautiful and influential ode to the life-altering benefits of heeding the present. In the chapter “Where I Lived...
Five Ways to Root a Creative Spring Mind
Each late March my mind explodes. Like earth, it becomes bloom-happy, indiscriminately popping out one idea after another. The Canadian Arctic Inuktitut have a word I relate to creative spring mind - Puijilittatuq. For...
Not Your Grandmother’s Sweetness: Active Compassion and Writers
When I traveled to South India several years ago to study with my teacher, I didn’t intend to bring my father. But sure enough almost every morning, among the smell of chai and dust,...
Writing and Living Toward Truth: Closing Words
The following words I delivered March 19, 2010 at the close of the 5th Annual Yoga As Muse for Authentic Writing & Creativity Retreat held at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, NM....
To Be Inspired or To Inspire Yourself: Is the Muse Out There?
[Note: I know conventional wisdom is to keep blog posts short and snappy. Alas, my mind doesn't work well in sound bytes. I hope the post merits the length. I'd love to hear your...
FAQs About Yoga & Creativity
I would like to answer some frequently asked questions related to Yoga As Muse. I welcome your responses and questions.
WHAT IS YOGA?
I speak as a writer who came to yoga later but also as...
OUT OF THE WAY & IN THE WAY: Reflections on Yoga & the Creative...
It’s a precarious way of life, this writing from some place where will steps aside and something else altogether takes over. I don’t mean to imply that divine agency is afoot or that little...