the Zen of Jen

Have you wanted to step onto the yoga path but felt overwhelmed?  Do you hesitate to join a public class because you feel you might not be able to keep up or understand the instructions?  Does your body have some quirkiness or special needs that you want to honor and...

Years ago I confronted a person who had been giving me stink-eye for years.  I had been avoiding him because of the negative energy I felt from him.  In a flurry of courage, I asked "Why don't you like me?"  He unfolded a story of deep misunderstanding and mistaken...

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The word Ho'oponopono breaks down into three parts; Ho'o meaning to make or to be like, Pono meaning harmony, and then Pono again, meaning harmony. So what does it mean to make harmony harmony?  One might say the idea is to make harmony outside of us by making harmony...

Have you ever felt sucked into a negative cycle that feeds on itself?  Someone is mean to you and you have a defensive knee-jerk reaction and you are mean back.  The anger intensifies on both sides until a circle of misery begins to flow.  Each person is sure the...

Look around you right now; the room you are in, the clothes you are wearing, the shape of your body, the places you dwell, how did this all come to be?  Consider the relationships of your life as they are now.  Consider your bank account.  They did not suddenly appear...

Yantra literally means tool or form.  It is a symbol that helps us understand how energy becomes form so we can participate more consciously in the unfolding of our physical life.  All form rises from unseen energy.  There are layers of manifestation that energy moves...

Translated from Japanese Hara simply means belly, but Hara refers to gut instinct and is related to the first and second chakras.  Just like chakras, Hara is an energy center that relates to the enteric nerve plexus in the lower abdomen.  When we think of saying like,...

A man got his face smashed in a car crash. Doctor's used his ear cartilage to reconstruct the nose, but over the years, the nose would grow back toward the shape of the ear. He had to have his nose redone every few years. How did that tissue know it was meant to be an...

Modern science has shown very clearly that all form rises from a shared energy field.  Whether you call this field God, Shiva, or Dark Energy matters not.  It is the invisible vibrational source of all we experience.  It is the web that connects us to all life and our...

The most powerful and accessible tool we have to transform our lives is our breath.  In the book How Yoga Works, the yoga teacher Friday tells her first student, "If there is anything about our outside physical body that most affects the inner winds [flow of life...