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Four by Four, Sit by Sit

Alright, it’s March! That means the First Nikki Challenge 28-Day Sit-off Meditation Competition is ovar! How’d it go for you? As you recall the rules were minimal. All I asked was for you to sit. That’s it! 60 seconds, 60 minutes, it didn’t matter. The goal was to create a habit, and as all of us [...]

The Seed of Yoga

This past weekend during my 500-hour teacher training, Denise Carrico came to talk to us about teaching yoga for people with cancer. Denise is a yoga teacher in the Integral tradition who has been teaching yoga for 20+ years and for people with cancer for 12 years at Seattle Cancer Lifeline in Phinney Ridge and [...]

Resources for Beginning Meditation

Over the years, I’ve listened to and read a lot of books on meditation (because, um, you know, reading and thinking about something is almost like really doing it ).

These are my top three books/audiobooks for Meditation for Beginners (and I do think we’re beginners for a very long time).

The beginner’s guide to meditation [...]

SOS - Sit-off Meditation Competition Sponsors

Have you heard of the Meditation Competition? Are you doing the Sit-off? If so, let these awesome business know and enjoy the generous discounts they’ve offered. Do you know a business who would like to and should participate? Are you one yourself? Please let me know and join in!

10% off at Village Green Yoga

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Sit, Human, Sit! Good Human

Last November, I announced a Meditation Competition–a Sit-off, if you will–as a response to the debate on Yoga Competition (or more accurately, Asana Competition).

It was a joke, that is, until now. I’m calling a Sit-off, and this time, it’s for real.

The competition is not who you think, though. We won’t have anyone judging your posture, [...]

An Open Letter of Grace

One of my favorite authors, Bill Bryson, once wrote:

Welcome. And congratulations. I am delighted that you could make it. Getting here wasn’t easy, I know. In fact, I suspect it was a little tougher than you realize.

To be here now; alive in the twenty-first century and smart enough to know it, you also had to [...]

Why I Do Yoga

I am often asked why I do yoga, and I often say, “so I can sit”, an answer that often elicits laughter, the kind that you would get when you give a smart-ass answer to a serious question.

Admittedly, it’s a bit of a smart-ass answer, and on the surface, it might look like one of [...]