While searching for inspiration recently for one of my yoga classes, I came upon a long quotation by Swami Kripalu.  The essence was to remind us that we are divine and that we are loved.  The lines that spoke to me were, “My beloved child, break your heart no longer/Each time you judge yourself, you [...]

Pole dancing is a controversial sport.  It’s hard to do; you have to have excellent core and upper body strength, and you have to be fairly coordinated.  But it’s also undeniably erotic.  Watching it immediately conjures up sexual thoughts for men, and most likely even for some women.  It is inexorably linked to exotic dancing, [...]

What is it that causes so many women in their forties to re-evaluate their lives and enter a mid-life crisis? For some, their children are grown or nearly so, and they can finally take time to decide what’s important to them.  For others, it could be the death or infidelity of a spouse, job loss, [...]

Did you ever notice how the anxiety about doing something is always worse than the actual event?  We spend so much time worrying about things, most of which are completely beyond our control.  Imagine being able to harness all that energy and use it to move toward something positive.

Last week I had one of those moments when the veils lifted and I was able to see, with crystal clarity, into my future. It played like a good soap opera, with heartbreak and loss, success, redemption and great love. I’m so grateful for my abilities, but sometimes I need some time to adjust to what they allow me to see. Morgan Freeman in The Bucket List notes that 97% of the people in the world would not want to know the moment of their death. He was in the other 3% until he found out he had lung cancer. I understand what he meant, because it can be challenging to live in each now moment when you want to hurry up and get to the end of the story. Jumping ahead into the future is a type of poison for the mind.