by David Schlussel | Aug 12, 2023 | blog, featured
You know that classic scenario – someone just wants to be heard, and the person listening is trying to go in and problem solve, throwing in advice before the story is fully revealed? It leaves the speaker so frustrated. A skilled listener can listen in a way...
by David Schlussel | Feb 23, 2023 | blog, featured
“If you want to be on a spiritual path, you’d better get used to living in paradox.” – Godfrey Devereux Paradox is when two seemingly opposite things are true at the same time. Much of the process of a spiritual path is reconciling what we...
by David Schlussel | Jul 13, 2022 | blog
July 3, 1988 was a warm, beautiful, sunny day in Birmingham, Michigan. It was a few weeks into the summer after my highschool graduation, and as a fit, healthy, 17yo college bound kid, my future looked bright. I borrowed my dad’s red convertible Mustang 5.0, and...
by David Schlussel | Apr 14, 2022 | blog
“Your body is your soul, as perceived by your senses” – William Blake I love the way William Blake invokes a sense of our vastness. Just like ultraviolet is outside the visible range, there are aspects of us that are outside of the sensory realm,...
by David Schlussel | Mar 14, 2021 | blog
It’s 3/14: Happy Pi (π) day! π is a fascinating number, often rounded off to 3.14, that is instrumental in determining the relationship between the width of a circle and the circumference of that circle, the area of the field the circle surrounds, and the...
by David Schlussel | Sep 16, 2020 | blog
How is emotional development connected with Surya Namaskar? I saw this question on Quora.com, and felt inspired to answer. The emotional benefits of any of the yoga forms, including the sun salutation surya namaskar, are that when we have trouble with some of our...
