Everyone in your life, without exception, is there to show you the path to your freedom. The more vexing the situation or the person, the more clearly your path is being illuminated for you. Will you see it?

There are going to be real moments when vexation compromises any semblance...

Recently I got some news that -- in relative terms -- felt as though my world was crumbling. Everything I've said and taught for the past 12+ years was immediately called into play, and I was left with two options.

I could engage the process of draining my own...

Awakening is a process of bringing your fullest attention to the moment; nothing more complex than that. But the moment we awaken, we glimpse an evolving, comforting balance within ourselves, and with that balance we can serve - in our families, our love, our work, and our world. This week...

In the past few years I have begun practicing Pranic Healing, a very particular form of healing that has served me in a cumulative, profound way. It involves becoming aware of the field of energy that surrounds each of us, and how that field has been affected - either...

What is possible -- and what is happening -- through your yoga practice?

And for teachers, how can you best serve your students by showing them efficaciously and efficiently your own experiential understanding?

Thanks to an astute observation from a dear colleague, it's come down to two terms: FORM...

Confession: I wasn't present with my son the other day.

We had an entire morning at home, a rare event. Usually on adventures [or errands that become adventures]- we're rarely just home together. And the entire morning, instead of chilling and enjoying, I was completely distracted. He kept trying to...

"What's great is this diversity of positions, since as long as there is contradiction and negation there is also confirmation of a reality." -Lygia Clark to Helio Oiticica, in Participation

It took a long while (15 years and counting), as well as committed study of several traditions to understand...

This week I propose cultivating a state of radical forgiveness to experience true intimacy. The following is really a tried and true recipe for my own nourishment; I hope it's useful.

1. Practice full, unbridled acceptance, particularly in the company of people toward whom you feel an aversion. The...

For years teachers and inspiring colleagues have referenced the heart as the key to inner peace, abundance, and health. Over the next few installations I'll explain how your heart holds your highest potentiality for consistency, as well as every current answer to any ancient question regarding what is possible in...

1. This is not about purification or denial of your emotions. This is about using your attention, your only real tool, to cultivate your most essential capacity for inner consistency.

To be consistent emotionally, less reactive (raise your hand if that's desirable to you!) the starting point is a simple...

What you will not find in the Art of Attention posts: overly haughty, unattainable spiritual references, additives or claims of perfection.

What you will find: authenticity, humor, references to the darkness and the consequent opportunities for observation, transformation and editing; refinement.

Welcome.

The Art of Attention is an invitation...