Are You Collecting Tools or Living Your Practice?

“A good tool improves the way you work. A great tool improves the way you think.” — Jeff Duntemann

If you're in the yoga or health/wellness world very much, you'll hear the word "tools" used to describe tricks of the trade that aim to help you feel better when you need it. I appreciate the use of this word, as I have indeed collected dozens and dozens of "tools" over the years to help me foster balance, remain calm more often, and enjoy life. It's kind of a passion of mine.

But I think the word "tool" has limitations. It sounds like it's something you use once and toss back in the toolbox for the next time you need it. And this may also be true for some health and wellness tools. However, it has been my experience that the vast majority of these tools need time and attention for them to truly show you what they offer.

I prefer the word "practices." Why? Because they require us doing them. Not thinking about them, or using them, or even perfecting them. Practices, when done with intention over time, change us in sweet and subtle ways. 

For example, one practice I love is reciting the Welcoming Prayer, by Mary Mrozowski and Father Thomas Keating. If you've ever been on a retreat with me or made it to chakra seven in Chakra Savvy: Reset Your Life Game Plan, you've practiced it with me before. 

Starting every day welcoming everything that comes because "you know it is for your healing," means that over time, things don't upset you like they used to.

You surrender to what comes, building faith in the steps on your path, the Spirit that supports you, and the encounters on your journey. You begin to recognize the roadblocks, the frustrations, the mishaps, disappointments, and even the tragedies, not as cosmic punishment or catastrophe, but as "grist for the mill" of your enlightenment.

This is my intention with

Practice Through: Contemplative and Therapeutic Yoga Practices for Challenging Times. 

Over the course of 15 weeks I will introduce you to 11 of my favorite practices for body, mind, and spiritual balance and healing. They are simple, yes, but they are deeply profound. 

Try it once, and it's a tool for your toolbox. Practice for a week, and see what shifts. Practice for a year and you will become new. 

So please join me and learn my tools! Some you'll love, some will be meh, but I am confident you will walk away with several tools that you'll want to continue to practice because, well, you feel better. 

All the session recordings will be available for you to keep in your library.

Like a toolbox. 

So yes, I use the word tools, but now you know it's so much more. 

Much love