Ciao and Sacred Sunday to you: As always, I hope that your week was filled with peace, joy, and love. I have a lot to share with you today. The most heart-wrenching, my little daimon of the past four years, Bandit, passed away this week. To make it even more poignant, it was my husband’s birthday. We knew…
Ciao and Sacred Sunday to you: I hope this finds you well and receiving the generous gifts that the summer season provides. Recently I’ve reconnected with a former yoga student. When I think back on the many years of teaching, and the number of students I’ve had the honor of sharing yoga with, my heart…
“For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.”Michelle Obama, BECOMING Ciao and Sacred Sunday to you: I hope you’re feeling well and continuing to bathe in the…
Maddalena Bellino Stramaglia My Mother August 1980 Capri Italy “There is no end. There is no beginning.There is only the infinite passion of life.”Frederico Fellini, filmmaker: from Sass, Smarts, and Stilettos Ciao and Sacred Sunday to you: Right after my husband and I moved into our new home, I received in the mail a gift…
Ciao and Sacred Sunday to you: Years ago, I participated in a yearlong study with Paul Muller-Ortega, Ph.D., “the founder of Blue Throat Yoga, an internationally recognized meditation teacher, and one of the world’s most highly respected academic scholars in the field of Indian Religion and Hindu Tantra”. It was at the completion of the program that I…
Ciao and Sacred Sunday to you: Recently I read this quote, author unknown: “Improvement isn’t inevitable. Change is.” I read it, then read it again, “Improvement isn’t inevitable. Change is.” Of course, this pithy quote took me on an inward journey. As a coach I’m in the business of improvement, self- improvement, and that of…
Rushing river sounds Laughter floating on a breeze One white butterfly Ciao and Sacred Sunday: I hope this week finds you well and thriving. For those of you in Arizona I’m wishing you gentle rain and an ease from the intense heat. For us, it’s officially glamping season. This week we loaded up the dogs…
Rogue River Valley, Oregon “Prayer is the medium of miracles.”from A Course in Miracles Ciao and Sacred Sunday to you: Here in Southern Oregon, day officially begins to break around 5:30am. Yet, if you watch closely night starts to give way to dawn much earlier. The black void of the sky, scattered with brilliant stars…
Ciao and Sacred Sunday to you: Sometimes I feel that writing Sacred Sundays is a little like when I was a kid and going to weekly Confession. You enter a room about the size of a broom closet – close the door behind, kneel on a cushioned step in the darkened space, speak to a silhouette;…
Ciao and Sacred Sunday: Some days I have no words to describe the anger, sadness, and grief I feel. The utter disregard for human life that’s demonstrated daily in this country is horrifying. And let’s not forget about the brutality that’s happening in Ukraine and other war-torn countries. Yet, here in the United States of…
