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Love & Sacrifice

Welcome to the Yoga Church Sunday Sermons. {psst: this email is jam packed, so be sure you make it all the way to the bottom!} Love is a word that means SO many different things in our culture. It can be utterly casual—almost to the point of meaninglessness. But it's also a word powerful enough to change our lives. Sometimes it's the word we deeply need to hear. Sometimes it's the word we're terrified to say. I know that we all need love. I know that we want to be loving people. And I think the vast majority of us ... (Continue Reading)

By | 2018-10-20T18:33:33+00:00 October 21st, 2018|Art, Books, Creativity, Meditation, Nature, Practice, Relationships, Religion, Scripture, Spirituality, Yoga, Yoga Church Sunday Sermons|1 Comment

The Yoga Church Community

Welcome to the Yoga Church Sunday Sermons. Three years ago, while backpacking high up in the mountains, I turned to my husband and said: “I want to start a church.” It sounded like a crazy thing coming out of my mouth, but the dream had been shouting so loud in my heart that I couldn’t hold it back any longer. Unfortunately, the dream wasn’t the only thing shouting within me. So was fear. Lots of it. I don’t know what your inner fear voice tells you, but mine was saying things like: “What kind of person says they want ... (Continue Reading)

By | 2018-10-13T08:22:16+00:00 October 14th, 2018|Creativity, Embodiment, Nature, Practice, Relationships, Retreats, Spirituality, Yoga, Yoga Church Sunday Sermons|1 Comment

The Middle Ground Between Love & Contempt

Welcome to the Yoga Church Sunday Sermons. After listening to the sermon “Who, or what, is God?” a few weeks ago, Pam wrote: “As soon as you asked what opposites I feel in my life I thought of the command to love everyone and yet I find myself disliking our country’s leaders. Without getting political, how do we feel love towards someone who we don’t respect? For me this is a constant push and pull struggle. How do I reflect God’s love in my life if I have contempt for someone?” These are important personal reflections and wise questions. Thank you ... (Continue Reading)

By | 2018-10-05T16:52:28+00:00 October 7th, 2018|Art, Embodiment, Meditation, Nature, Practice, Relationships, Religion, Scripture, Spirituality, Yoga, Yoga Church Sunday Sermons|9 Comments

Keeping Time (fall equinox part 2)

Welcome to the Yoga Church Sunday Sermons. As promised, here's part 2 of the fall equinox sermon. Last week we rooted ourselves on the ground. And this week we explore the practice of keeping time. One of the ways we mark time at our house is by greeting every new season with a morning fire. We take a moment out of regular life to pause and notice the energetic shifts happening in the natural world and to notice how these shifts are showing up in our own lives. We reflect on the intentions of the past season and set new ... (Continue Reading)

By | 2018-09-30T09:13:29+00:00 September 29th, 2018|Art, Books, Creativity, Meditation, Nature, Practice, Relationships, Religion, Scripture, Spirituality, Yoga, Yoga Church Sunday Sermons|6 Comments

the Ground of all Being (fall equinox part 1)

Welcome to the Yoga Church Sunday Sermons. Yesterday—in the northern hemisphere where I live—was the fall equinox and it was my full intention to offer you a sermon in celebration of the season change. But when I sat down to write, something else entirely poured out of me... The fall equinox feels like a very earthy thing and apparently something inside of me needed to root us on the ground before I could actually begin writing about the season change. So you're getting the fall equinox sermon in two parts over two weeks. And similarly, as I worked at my art ... (Continue Reading)

By | 2018-09-22T12:52:42+00:00 September 23rd, 2018|Art, Books, Creativity, Embodiment, Meditation, Nature, Practice, Relationships, Religion, Scripture, Spirituality, Yoga, Yoga Church Sunday Sermons|4 Comments

Transformation Begins with Deep Noticing

Welcome to the Yoga Church Sunday Sermons. This week, we turn our attention toward the idea of transformation. All sermons include something of the preacher in them, but this one asked a bit more of me than usual. In my personal practice the last few years I've been working to become more comfortable with the reality of vulnerability (I call it a reality because even though many of us do our best to be invulnerable, we will always fail). So this week I share some of my own transformation with you... Even in the artwork, which is a page from ... (Continue Reading)

By | 2018-09-20T12:10:41+00:00 September 15th, 2018|Art, Nature, Practice, Relationships, Religion, Scripture, Spirituality, Yoga, Yoga Church Sunday Sermons|10 Comments

Who or What is God?

Welcome to the Yoga Church Sunday Sermons. As you know spiritual study, practice, and community are my favorite things to think about, talk about, do, and build. For many years I felt spiritually homeless and I've spent the last decade searching for spiritual answers. I went to seminary. I took multiple yoga teacher trainings. And I dove deep into the ancient scriptures of Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, and yoga. I still have big questions, but they're different now, and I'm at a point where my heart feels full and my spirit feels calm. I no longer feel spiritually homeless, but I ... (Continue Reading)

By | 2018-09-13T11:16:52+00:00 September 9th, 2018|Art, Nature, Religion, Scripture, Spirituality, Yoga, Yoga Church Sunday Sermons|16 Comments
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