COURTNEY ROHAN YOGA

I’ve never been a morning person until now. Never scheduled classes or anything before 9, if I could help it. But there is something special about the morning, before sunrises, which can not be overlooked. In the darkness of this part of the day, what is seen is bright and available. Before our bunch of thoughts start merging and converging and feet get to stepping, the world and the energies of peace do their thing. On Monday, I started my first ever donation class at 6:30am in California at the Windsor Yoga Haus . Everything about that statement is new for me. I am binding the habit of telling myself that I am not able to function in the early morning. The easiest way for me to do this is to get up and into the day, in seva, selfless service. Rising to create and harvest unity of body, mind and spirit  instills a purpose. To be able to present an offering at this hour is precious. With the sun rising as class begins, the sky and hearts alight and align; I am moved. We are a...

I love Thanksgiving! It is hands down one of my favorite holidays. I love the idea of gatherings happening across country and a time of eating. Though we could work out that aspect of things in a healthier way, collectively, since there really are many things to eat that are healthy! ( Be sure to check out how to curve this pattern of overeating below. ) If you know me, you know I love to eat! And it excites me that giving thanks is more than gathering and eating. This holiday happens to fall strategically in the middle of a season of contemplation, when many things that once were transform. It is a sacred time of becoming something else to give The One glory.  We all know this transformation. We have done it before in various ways, big and small, seasonally, cellularly, egotistically, spiritually. The beauty of the outdoors during this time of year pricelessly shows us how wonderful and beautiful the process of transformation can be.  And with these big brains of ou...

Relationships can feel like delicious treats or deplorable tricks, and the song that we hear each Halloween begs us to make a choice: “Trick or Treat?” Relationships and Halloween both full of choice. And, it has always been this way.  The origins of Halloween being about the dead and our relationship to them long before there was a song to wield in which to gross candy. Beginning in the seventh century with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off roaming ghosts the day before the Celtic New Year. This was a very superstitious time, “when the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31, it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future. For a people entirely ...