COURTNEY ROHAN YOGA

Recently, Boston , my son, left his bag in the backseat of his friend’s car. The bag contained some most important items, his phone and ipad charger. When my husband called him the night he left the chargers, I am told that Boston did not even say hi when he answered the phone. No. The most important thing he needed to say upon answering the phone was, “Dad, my phone’s on 1 percent!” He texted me with the same message along with a desperate, “Call me!” There are several things that are really keen about this situation. Would you agree? I mean, when did it matter so much to be in constant contact with everyone? When you went to your friend’s house as a kid, that was it. You were at your friend’s house and if your parents wanted to reach you, they’d call that house. And, if you’re old enough, you remember when the phone at your friend’s house did not need to be charged. Times have changed. From analog to digital, our interactions and connections have become brand new. And we rely o...

 I love spring. It is one of those times of year where everywhere you look is hopeful. The trees are budding, wildlife is multiplying, people and animals, stretching their arms and legs and waking from their winter set. There is this feeling of everything being light, and the time change helps everything stay light longer during our daily, waking hours. So that helps. But spring, even without considering daylight savings time as part of the equation, is a pleasant passageway to a simple, light truth. There are a lot of things to learn from each season. In spring, when the air feels cleaner and light, when love feels nearer and hopeful, like all you see around you, that is the time to begin moving. One would think that fall would be the time; however, fall would be the last of the movement and scurry, the tail end, the last drop. Winter is sitting, subtle movement, and summer is surrender and passion, movement in the thick, which can be fast or slow depending on the day and wha...

Click here to register! There is always something to experience, some new whisper of a thing or interaction in the now to keep us going. Our calenders can get full all too quickly at times, and then there is this something inside life that sparkles and dims at times, too, on top of it all. We enjoy or cry with this, if we choose, and we wonder, possibly, as it unfolds, how to work it all out. It can be a true stretch to make sense of it all.  But, it really is all good, and that is more than enough to know. By golly, we could experience the full range of emotion, sometimes in moments :). Let us focus though on emotional health and emotional heart smarts instead. I am not just referring to the heart beating in your body, but the one that surrenders and creates consciously that which we hope to see. To fully experience life, we must take the time to seek ourselves more fully.This will breed emotional heath, make your intentions clearer and your heart smart; it will connect kn...

Each quality acts in its own turn at different times. All the three qualities cannot operate at one and the same time. When one quality asserts itself or predominates by overpowering or suppressing the other two, it produces its own effect.   Sattva   produces knowledge and happiness;   Rajas   action;   Tamas   veiling of knowledge, inertia, error, indolence, sloth and sleep. When Sattva is in the ascendant in a man, he is endowed with discrimination. Sublime thoughts roll in his mind. He has pure understanding. His mind turns away from sensual pleasures and moves inward towards the Self.”                                     - Bhagavad Gita (14.10), Swami Sivananda We are constantly teetering between having balance and seeking balance. It is true, as soon as we acknowledge ha...