Full Circle Yoga & Healing Arts 

Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time in the garden. Whether watering my recent succulent transplants or pruning back overgrown herbs, I like to spend at least a little time each day communing with the plants and letting their energy nourish my spirit. As I was cutting back my abundant yarrow patch, overflowing with feathery green leaves, I began pondering what to do with it all. I’d already made plenty of fresh yarrow tincture, infused it into coconut oil for making salve

Struggling Morning Meditation 5am. The house is dark. I light a candle and find my seat. My ankles itch. I’m cold. I get a blanket and wrap up inside it. I pull it like a cloak around me and over my head. I cannot disappear from myself. I watch my thoughts wander around. I point one out, See! A thought! What's it doing? I make it sit down and be quiet. Then comes another. Then another. Mental space gets thinner and opens up like a predawn sky I see light. The light has no inn