Breathing fast and slow

Imagine the whole world laughing...or learning to laugh a little more. Find out the secret when you listen to Jeffrey Briar, founder of Laguna Beach Laughter Yoga Club, in conversation with me today on Out on a Limb . Here is a link to this latest episode of the Out on a Limb podcast. It will make your diaphragm feel jolly. Promise. http://kx.onelaguna.com/podcasts Experience laughter yoga for yourself by attending class with Jeffrey and his fellow mirth-making yogis in Laguna Beach, on the beach below Heisler Park, Sunday through Friday at 8 a.m. or Saturday at 10 a.m. Follow this link to his website and share the ananda , the bliss: http://lyinstitute.org/ Time moved too quickly today for the following announcements of upcoming yoga happenings. Sangita Yoga: The yoga of music Open House, Saturday, April 12, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Back Bay Center 2675 Irvine Avenue, Suite 100 Costa Mesa, CA  92727 Enjoy a live presentation of the sacred music of India with Naren K. S...

A word about Out on a Limb : With every new endeavor, I become the earnest student again. I am a pilgrim on a new path, traveling always toward that place of greater awareness. I do believe it is a sacred realm because in that place we discover who we are meant to be. The truth, however, is that beginnings are humbling tasks. I must learn one more time that before awareness expands in a new direction, it first must shatter. What shatters inevitably brings fresh resolve and, not only a renewed focus, but new eyes. Still, it's a process, and the learning curve has its own arc that I must bend with. And so, I would like to thank all of my early supporters of Out on a Limb and all those who continue to agree to join me in weekly conversation as both guests and listeners. Thank you for your willingness to extend to me a little bit of faith in a project that is quickly taking on a life of its own. Last week: Sunday, March 23 If you missed last Sunday's  live broadcast of Out o...

It may be when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.         --Wendell Berry Sometimes, life runs smoothly. I sleep well. I get my work done. I feel good about myself, my family, our life, the dog. Like Goldilocks sitting in baby bear's chair, life is just right. So good, in fact, that I attach myself to those good feelings and that smooth running life. Sometimes, life simply runs, as in it gets away from me. Events don't go as planned. Feelings of helplessness set in, occasionally a sense of hopelessness follows. Finally, I feel foolish for thinking that I ever had any of it under control. Once again I'm like Goldilocks, this time complaining that things are too hot or too cold and not at all exactly right. It's odd, but I get attached to those feelings as well. The truth is, I lose heart as often as I accept a challenge. I feel compassion f...

Andres at rest with his art. If you missed yesterday's live broadcast of Out on a Limb , click on the link below to hear me in conversation with Earth Scape Artist Andres Amador. Our theme today: Impermanence and Sacred Geometry. Here is the link to today's podcast at KX @ One Laguna: http://kx.onelaguna.com/podcasts/ Here is the link to find Andres Amador and learn more about his art: http://www.andresamadorarts.com/ Next week: Sunday, March 23 at 2 p.m. Join me for live conversation with Lobbyist Roger Faubel. We will talk about how yoga and mindfulness have transformed this one lobbyist's approach to doing business with Orange County's political and corporate movers and shakers.

If you missed today's live broadcast of Out on a Limb , click on the link below to hear me in conversation with Ashtanga yoga teacher Diana Christinson of Pacific Ashtanga Yoga in Dana Point. Our theme today: Gratitude. We talk about learning how to tune in to the present moment to cultivate gratefulness in our lives, which, like our yoga practice, is an art, a practice, a dance. Listen as Diana gives instructions for how to conduct and navigate our own "Google Search" of our lives lived daily. Here is the link to today's podcast at KX @ One Laguna: http://kx.onelaguna.com/podcasts/ Here is the link to find Diana Christinson and her shala Pacific Ashtanga in Dana Point, CA: http://www.pacificashtanga.com/ Finally, here is the link to Brother David Steindl-Rast's website: http://www.gratefulness.org/ Next week: Sunday, March 16 at 2 p.m. Join me for live conversation with Earth Scape artist Andres Amador. We will talk about the "sacred geometry...

I have to remind myself when our youngest daughter comes home from school with a fresh from the front report about some eighth grade injustice she experienced that day to give her story time to settle around her before I offer any comments. It is her story, after all. I haven't been in eighth grade for a long time. Even though I like to think I know what hasn't changed all that much in the life of a 13-year-old, there is some truth to that claim of hers she'll occasionally toss my way if I offer advice too soon--or too apparently dated. You just don't get it . True enough, I'll admit. And in the next instant, I'll recognize--appropriately, with a touch of melancholy--that I am now on the other side of that invisible but undeniable line that Louis Armstrong acknowledged in his song What a Wonderful World : I hear babies cry, I watch them grow, They'll learn much more, Than I'll ever know.  This is the toughest part of being a parent, the part t...