Have you ever wondered why most New Year's resolutions go by the wayside before January is over? Most of us are unaware of the resistance we face when we attempt to change our lives. This workshop will help you identify an intention that reflects your heart's deepest desires, as well as uncover the obstacles to its realization. We will begin the practice by spending some time in meditation, self-reflection and writing to develop an intention (sankalpa) for something we want t

I grew up thinking. I was going to say, I grew up thinking that thinking was my identity, but I may as well stop at "I grew up thinking..." I certainly remember valuing thinking over feeling, and becoming excited when I first heard Descarte's assertion, "I think, therefore I am." I was my thoughts. What I thought, I was. I had no objectivity or distance from my thoughts. If I thought I was worthless, I was worthless. I drank at the altar of knowledge. I consumed information (

Even as large portions of the world’s population are starving, people in wealthy industrialized nations are either eating to excess or furiously dieting to eliminate weight. Our insatiable appetites and our relationship with food and weight have risen to the level of unsustainable obsessions. Being “fat” (i.e. not unduly thin) in a “thin world” – a world that demands we are “fashionably underweight” to meet cultural standards of beauty -- oppresses men and women every day. Tr

Interoception is the perception of body sensations as they relate to physical or emotional cues that inform and form our internal sense of self. Dissociation from bodily experience, leading to a chronic disregard of the body’s needs and psycho-physiological experiences, is a hallmark of these disorders regardless of where they fall on the spectrum – starvation in anorexia, binge-purge cycles in bulimia, or binge eating in the other extreme. Recent research shows that persons

EMBODY. If the warfare of unmet needs, disowned emotions and disenfranchisement from cultural norms is waged in the body, and if low interoception is associated with poor mental and physical health, the first step in this process would be to become more embodied. Body-oriented approaches to healing could be critical in restoring body awareness to increase interoceptive capacities and to restore self-regulation. The use of mindfulness and somatic practices that increase body a