Today it is dark and cold here in North Carolina, and I don’t feel like going out for my walk. The messages from the earth seem loud and clear - hunker down indoors, hibernate, or at least send your most tender parts deeper into the earth for protection. Stay quiet, undetected. Rest. Protect and rebuild … Continue reading Transitions at the New Year
Last week I had the great honor of teaching a 3-day program, “Awaken the Voice, Quiet the Mind,” at the Sivananda Yoga Ashram in the Bahamas with over 100 participants. It felt like a true full-circle moment, coming back to my yoga roots where my fascination with Ayurveda was first sparked over 20 years ago - not … Continue reading The Entwined Paths of Ayurveda & Yoga
Are you feeling the weight of the world’s crises on your shoulders? If you have been marinating in uncertainty, outrage, or fear (or a combination of all three), it takes a toll on the psyche and the body. To keep our physical and mental containers strong, so we can be alert and responsive to the … Continue reading 3 Revolutionary Examples of “Self Care” for Our Time
I’m on my way home from India, suspended in time somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, and wondering what reality I will find on the ground when I get back to the U.S. It’s hard not to jump ahead to the future in this shifting social and political landscape we find ourselves in. Based on what … Continue reading Staying Present & Resisting Urgency
This morning I awoke in the dawn-grey light to the most striking, luminous full moon setting in the west over the Jemez Mountains here in Santa Fe, where I'm visiting with family for the holidays. Oddly, a low-hanging cloud was covering the top half of the full moon as it set, so it looked like … Continue reading A Path through Confusion and Despair
Ivy Ingram, MA, AP 