What Is Sadhana? Building a Practice That Fits Your Real Life
You start a practice with real devotion. For a week or two, it feels wonderful. Then life happens. The problem is almost never willpower. The problem is design.
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Notes on practice, consciousness and the inner life.
Essays and reflections on consciousness, psychology, spirituality, embodiment, dreams, and what happens after the practice. New essays twice a month.
How Twenty Years of Practice Changed What I Thought Yoga Was
Yesterday, my son started talking to me while I was on my laptop, and I closed it. That's the whole moment.
When the Life That Fit You No Longer Fits
Around four o'clock most afternoons, my body gets ready to leave for a studio that isn't there anymore.
Your Dreams Are Speaking in Symbols: A Jungian Starting Point
I had my first lucid dream this year, while I was taking a graduate course called Consciousness of Sleep and Dreams. I'd like to say that was a coincidence.
What Happens When We Become Quiet Enough to Notice?
Lately I've been trying something that sounds too simple to write about. I sit down and don't do anything.
Yoga Nidra for Beginners: What It Is and How to Practice
It's one of the practices I recommend most to people who tell me they can't meditate. You lie down and follow a voice.
Heart Openers and the Parasympathetic Shift: Expanding Beyond Fear
Backbends are more than postures. They are an invitation to deepen the breath and shift into a state of openness and trust.
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Design Your Sadhana
Sadhana is a Sanskrit word for personal practice: the small, steady act of coming back to yourself each day. Most of us don't struggle to find a practice. We struggle to keep one.
This free workbook walks you through six gentle steps to build a daily practice around your actual life, energy and intention. You build it in three sizes, so it survives busy weeks and hard days.
- ArriveReflect honestly on your relationship with practice so far.
- MapSee the real shape of your day and your energy.
- IntendChoose one intention and connect it to a sankalpa.
- DesignBuild your practice in three sizes from a menu of options.
- PracticeTry it in your body and refine it by how it feels.
- CommitSet your forty days and plan for the days you miss.
Includes a practice menu with guided practices you can do with me, a practice card to keep, and a tracker for your forty days.
Ready to take it into practice?
Reading can help us understand an idea. Practice gives us a chance to encounter it for ourselves.