Soul Journeys

Recentering. When something throws us off balance, how do we bring ourselves back to center. Noticing the downward spiral towards self-deprecation. Practicing compassionate self-discipline. Thoughts about this world of on-line learning, AI, and where it might be taking us. Livestreamed: 4/14/26

Has anyone ever disappointed you? I'm letting go of expectations. Whenever you have an agenda with someone it creates a resistance in the other person. Yoga Nidra is a wonderful place to begin to release our attachments and expectations. Livestreamed: 4/10/26

If you wish to love, you must learn to see again. And if you wish to see, you must learn to give up your addictions, your dependencies: approval, attention, success, prestige, status, power, the favorable reactions of others. Cultivate your power of aloneness and see with clear vision. Livestreamed 4/10/26

Going into unchartered waters. We have to acknowledge the darkness because it is there. Exploring the world of consciousness and what we relegate to the basement. Returning to the Source by embracing all of reality. Healing through creating loving space. Live class : 4/3/26

Walking right on the edge, considering freezing up, but keeping it together! Exploring the psychological and spiritual realms of darkness, strengthening the light. Breathing into the edge, rather than being overwhelmed. Enjoy the simple pleasures, allow awareness to happen without effort. Livestreamed: 4/3/26

Norman and Greg explore our challenging times; graduate school; health, aging, and facing death; building our capacity for beauty and sadness; acceptance is the name of the game; opting for the poignancy of the present moment; letting go. Livestreamed: 4/2/26

Life seems to be divided into pre and post pandemic; sweetness and nostalgia. Getting older means recognizing that, "this may be the last time I see this person." Cultivating the ability to connect and be present with others in authenticity. Some people don't want it. Holding heartbreak and intimacy. Livestreamed: 3/31/26

Freedom lies not in external circumstances, freedom resides in the heart. You can only truly discover love when you are alone. Love (according to AD) is to truly see a person or a thing as they are, not as what they mean or represent to us. We are addicted to approval, success, prestige, power; we get our needs met through these external things. Move towards direct engagement. Livestreamed: 3/27/26

Polyamory! A great concept; the more love the better, right? Very complicated in practice. I appreciate millennials are experimenting with different kinds of relationships. For most of us, love connotes a large degree of attachment, and we're not particularly skilled at consciously navigating the issues which will inevitably arise. I wish us peace along the way. Livestreamed: 3/24/26

Following up on, "I love myself and my whole being." The big villain is our self-condemnation. Look at all the amazing qualities we have cultivated. Nurturing a place of connection and "okness." Tapping into our divinity. Livestreamed: 3/20/26

"You and I were trained to be dissatisfied with ourselves. This is where all evil comes from psychologically." Examining our tendency to pull from the past and push towards the future, taking us out of the present. We recreate what we expect rather than open to the moment. Be the river. Livestreamed: 3/20/26

Poking out of the chrysalis. Grateful for the nicer weather. Change is renewal; death and birth are happening at the same time. Inevitable. Do not worry about them. Death is always there for something else to emerge. And this too. Livestreamed: 3/10/26