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One way we deepen our appreciation and love for this earth is through travel and seeing its infinite variety of landscapes.

We can do the same for our heart.

Through yoga and meditation, we can travel and view the heart-scape. As a heart-traveller, we deepen our experience of life, our love and compassion, our peace and tranquility, and our evenness of mind especially during difficult times.

But most importantly, we realize our greater unity with all of life–we deepen our connection with this totality of life with which we are one.

There’s a popular expression, “Home is where the heart is.”

I prefer a reversal of this to explain a marvel of yoga and meditation: The heart is where home is.

As we do the practices more, we come more frequently, easily, and more deeply into the heart space–this place of tranquility, joy, love and compassion, and bliss.

When in this space of the heart, we feel at home. It is the natural root, source, and resting place of the mind. It is, if you will, our inner home that is with us for all our life. There is no feeling comparable to this inner home.

Yoga and meditation are a marvel in that they can can take us there, to our inner home.

Practice, my friends, and find your way home!

Hansel and Gretel were lured in by the candy house.

Imagine something sweeter, way so!

This is the lure of yoga and meditation.

During yoga and meditation, as the mind relaxes, it can repose in the heart like a sunbather in a chaise lounge. Ahhhhh!

As we practice our yoga and meditation, our more relaxed and quieter mind, being more at ease, drops into the heart like a child going down a slide… happily!

Practice, and drop in sometime!

As we do what feels good in yoga–to our body, to our mind, to our emotions and feelings… energetically–as we feel these good things, we naturally let go.

We do not and cannot force ourselves to let go. When we feel love, we quite naturally let go… freely!

Do what feels good in yoga, and let go to love!

“I’m feeling so good I’m going home and treating my husband nicer,” remarked a newcomer to yoga at the end of class.

Remarkable, right?!!

As we practice yoga, we realign our body physically and energetically in poses; we focus on the breath while harvesting good (or better!) feelings and thoughts (in addition to firmer abs!).

Often unbeknownst to us, as we practice, we align our self more with the universal Self and it loving, compassionate energy, and we harvest love; we vibrate more with it.

Like the hippies made famous in the Summer of Love, we share this most freely with our family, friends, colleagues at work, and even with mere acquaintances.

Let this be your Summer of Love! See at yoga!

When I meditate and do yoga, this well-known song’s lyrics ring especially true.

Yes, yoga is poses, breath work, meditation, self-reflection and self-study, but the practices are also about so much more.

As we practice and the mind starts to get quieter, it naturally settles more in the heart. We grow calmer, more settled and centered in a universal love that resides in the heart of all beings.

Our practices, with practice, can become a veritable love fest! We can become hooked, literally strung out; we may even succumb and become a frequent “user.”

Yes, love is the drug…

See you at yoga!

As a yoga teacher, I feel a lot like a Jewish momma at the dinner table offering what she’s cooked up with a wanting smile, “Try it, you’ll like it!”

When I teach, I offer or teach poses and practices i.e. breath work and meditation techniques, and my students try them in class.

But do they help? Do they improve health and well-being? How do they help? Which practices help with what? This experimentation and reflection is the key to continued practice and benefiting from practice.

“Try it, you’ll like it!”… at least some of it… that which helps.

And that, my friend, is why I teach yoga!

Can you hear the flowers shouting for joy as they open?

Such joy and freedom as they twirl in the sun, motionless.

Such is the meditation energy we can discover in our yoga and meditation practices.

Such wonder pervades the opening of our hearts.

Care to take a twirl with me in that sun?