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Your Humanity is Your Greatest Gift
During pandemic, time felt like it slowed down, at least a little bit. As the world opened back up many of us made efforts to be intentional about how to spend time and how much to schedule in a single day, while also prioritizing self-care, slow food, and meaningful conversations. At some point, however, perhaps mysteriously and unbeknownst to most of us, life seemed to amp back up again. Have you felt that, too? It’s like we are now speeding past even the ridiculous tempo s

CoCoBean
Jan 42 min read


Tending to Your Interior Life (first written in late fall, 2021)
Have you been tending to your Interior Life? Or have you also been recognizing that the exterior life with its tasks and responsibilities is so consuming that it’s possible to largely ignore the subtleties and complexities of this inner world? Lately I’ve been realizing, yet again, that settling into this vast and deep inner space provides nourishment that feeds the hungry soul. Checking items off a “To Do” list feels satisfying, perhaps because there is a sense of achievemen

CoCoBean
Nov 10, 20252 min read


Come Back to Yoga, Come Back to Yourself, Come Back to Life!
Yoga and meditation, in my experience, are less about creating a preferred experience and more about discovering what is so. We often struggle so much with the present moment. We compare it to our expectations, judgements and demands and find it somehow inadequate or insufficient. Consider that for a moment: we measure what actually is against our imagination and fantasy about how we think it should be or how we wish it were. We become dissatisfied with life as it is because

CoCoBean
Jan 14, 20252 min read
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