What is it with our culture and its seeming attachment to emotional dishonesty? With all the cliche talk about the virtues of honesty, there’s still the penchant toward lying.  Take for example the lying that can go on in personal relationships.  Telling the other what you think they want to hear.  Lying about who you are [...]

One of the new edges in the treatment of psychological trauma is Yoga.  A gentle and subjective approach that guides the practitioner into becoming more sensitive to their felt experience.  One that is less focused on the cultivation of the perfect ‘outer body’, and more interested in connecting with the ‘inner body’.   It’s an approach to Yoga [...]

Today is Mother’s Day.  It’s a time to remember mothers, one’s own as well as those around the world, who love their children the best way they know how.  Moms do the best they can amidst the stresses they encounter, both intrapsychically as well as from the world around them, in the course of raising their [...]

I met Karen* on the shuttle between the Yoga Centre and the Albany airport.  She was wearing a faux leopard skin coat.  It caught my eye immediately.  ‘I love those coats’  I thought, although I don’t have the guts to wear one.  I’ll be seen.  And I would rather blend in with the sea of [...]