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A note from Erin: Good morning! This morning I’m thinking about maitri.  Do you know this word? It’s one of my favorite words in any language. It’s from Sanskrit and it is often translated as something like “unconditional friendliness” or “unconditional warm welcoming.” I remember a powerful point from a teaching given by Pema Chodron in…

A note from Erin: Hello! I hope this note finds you well and enjoying the season. A few things I want to share with you this morning. First, tomorrow will wrap up my first e-course, the Embody Gratitude Project, and it’s been wonderful! I’ve gotten great feedback at how these simple practices can be so powerful in…

A note from Carl: This morning over a beautiful breakfast on the porch, (thanks Erin!) I was talking with Philip Shepherd about the topic of his talk tomorrow night, “Recovering Our Senses in the 21st Century.“ As we spoke, I was was reminded of a favorite poem from Hafiz: First the fish needs to say…

A note from Erin:   I am writing from a dear old Feldenkrais friend’s sunny dining table at her lovely home in the Mission district of San Francisco. Mesa is happily running around blasting things with lego planes along with Michela’s boys and the smell of a frittata is wafting through the air.    Yesterday,…

A note from Carl Some days, it’s best just to leave it to Rumi… I heard this poem read on a drive today, and it landed as though Ihad never heard it before. (as poems will do when we let them) Two Kinds of Intelligence There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired, as a child in school memorizes facts…