Apprenticeship to Love

SLOWLY I BECOME ALL THAT I DESIRE

Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, November 27, 2023 • Today’s questions: What do I need? What do I want? How can I begin to give myself this thing I want? How can I begin to share with others this thing I need from others? • Today's

TO TRUST THIS TESTING

Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, November 22, 2023 • Today’s questions: What do you need? What do you want? Can you tell the difference? And, can you give yourself this thing, exactly this thing that you belive you most deeply need? • Today's suggested practice: Day

TO PENETRATE DEEPER... Part II

Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, November 13, 2023 ★ FREE for all Premium & Premium+ subscribers: Wednesday, November 15 I'll be hosting "Men & Dating," as the Apprenticeship to Love Virtual Workshop for November. My guest will be men's coach Leroy Gordon. Register here • Today’s questions: What

TO PENETRATE DEEPER THAN HER STORMS, HER CALMS, Part I

Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, November 9, 2023 • Today’s questions: Is there confusion or mis-alignment in your heart, your mind, your body? Can you feel deeper, into a still place that will hold your confusion? Do you want to be held while you find

TESTED, I AM GRATEFUL

Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, November 9, 2023 • Today’s questions: What's your hurry? • Today's suggested practice: Day 1 of this month's practice, to breathe and receive (see my "Short Practice,” below) • My practice today: 5am: 60 minutes: yoga, mantra, and Mala Japa meditation. • My

THIS WEEK … after TangoMayaFest

We arrived at Cancún on October 31, the evening of TangoMayaFest 2023. For the next few days, until we left yesterday morning, November 6, we soaked it up. Not just the sun and sand (and rain!), not just the vacation experience, but mostly the wisdom of the body, by way

MY ORACLE, WHEN I SURRENDER…

Apprenticeship to Love: Chapters on a Path to Authentic Relationship, October 30, 2023 • Today’s questions: If you can feel Her, the presence of the larger-than-life feminine in and around you, are you willing to surrender, to cultivate your relationship with Her, without demand or expectation or even a goal

GOING WITHIN

Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, October 27, 2023 • Today’s questions: What is your inner voice saying? What is your inner truth guiding you towards? Are the ravens calling you to attend to yourself? • Today's suggested practice: Day 29 of this month's practice, to notice

SIN EXPECTATIVAS, SIEMPRE

Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, October 22, 2023 • Today’s questions: What are you expecting from this moment? From this day? From this conversation? What happens when, knowing your expectations, you put them aside and allow the moment or the person to give you what

FEEL INTO THIS MARRIAGE & LET IT HURT

Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, October 19, 2023 • Today’s questions: Consider this, even if you are not "married," to what are you wedded? To what are you deeply committed? And how have you weathered this commitment in a life and a world that is

SIN EXPECTATIVAS

Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, October 17, 2023 • Today’s questions: What are you expecting from yourself, this moment, those near you? What might happen if you were able to suspend these expectations, even for an hour, a day, a week? • Today's suggested practice: Day

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LESSONS & HOMEWORK, WEEK 15

What I see: Yoga+Tango for Lovers students are progressing more deeply into the their tango than students who do not prepare with this kind of "nervous system training." It's a beautiful thing to witness.

LETTING THE ENTRAILS SPEAK

Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, October 15, 2023 • Today’s questions: Are you feeling the currents of today? Whether in the events of the world or the events of your body, are you able to fully feel these currents, and allow yourself to be the

SHE SHOWS ME, EVERYTHING

Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, October 12, 2023 • Today’s questions: Is there another who leads you with your tenderness? Are you willing to feel your own tenderness, and let this lead you through the confusion and the happiness and the pain of this life?

SHAKEN. I BREATHE, & I ALLOW

Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, October 9, 2023 🎁There's an "Easter Egg" in today's chapter for three Premium or Premium+ subscribers... 😊 • Today’s questions: Are you able to feel yourself trembling, shaken to your roots, and still stand? Still stand with your heart open? • Today's

IT IS ALL A RISK, DISCOMFORT THE ONLY PROMISE

Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, October 7, 2023 • Today’s questions: How are you protecting yourself from the risk of tenderness to feeling everything life —love!— is offering you? And what would happen if you accepted the risk, besides, of course, the falling apart of

MASTERING TIME & SPACE

Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, October 5, 2023 • Today’s questions: Am I "stepping up" into my mastery, for myself, for others? Am I afraid to "step up?" • Today's suggested practice: Day 5 of this month's practice, to notice & receive while in motion (see my

I WAS SURPRISED. NOW, ALWAYS, AMAZED…

Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, October 2, 2023 • Today’s questions: What qualities do I allow, when I discipline myself with practice and patience? What qualities do I deny, when I collapse into habitual appetites and ways? • Today's suggested practice: Day 4 of this month's

PRACTICE, TO RECEIVE HER

Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, October 2, 2023 • Today’s questions: Who am I when I slow down? Who am I when I do not slow down? How do I experience myself, and others, fast or slow? • Today's suggested practice: Day 3 of this month's

HUSBANDRY & GARDENS & TENDERNESS & YES, TANGO

Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, October 1, 2023 • Today’s questions: As I slow myself down, how does the sensation of this moment change? What do I feel more of, as I slow down? And, What am I afraid to feel, if I slow down?

MARRIAGE & HER VICISSITUDES

Today’s questions: What needs do I lay at her feet, that I am afraid to fill myself? What tenderness do I feel myself too frail to hold, demanding this of another? And what commitments do I make —and keep!— in return? * Today's suggested practice: Day 27 of this month's

THIS MOMENT OF FALLING THROUGH BALANCE, INTO...

Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, September 25 • Today’s questions: How do I allow myself to fall through this moment of not-in-balance, allowing myself to feel it all, and hold myself, somehow knowing and trusting my inner compass to guide me through? • Today's suggested practice:

THERE IS SOMETHING HERE IN THIS MOMENT & IN THIS MARRIAGE. I ALLOW IT TO BE HEARD

Apprenticeship to Love: Daily Meditation, Inspirations, and Practices for Authentic Relationship, September 19 • Today’s questions: How am I listening to the Soul of this moment? How might I better hear it speak? And, What then? • Today's suggested practice: Day 18 of this month's practice, to practice to receive (see

GUIDED BY TEMPTATIONS

Apprenticeship to Love: Daily Meditation, Inspirations, and Practices for Authentic Relationship, September 17 • Today’s questions: How am I being tempted, and what is this temptation teaching me? How is it teaching me to be true to who I am as a man? • Today's suggested practice: Day 17 of this

IT IS BY OUR CROOKED WAYS WE FIND HER TREASURES

Apprenticeship to Love: Daily Meditation, Inspirations, and Practices for Authentic Relationship, September 13 • Today’s questions: How do I experience the chaos around me —as disturbing, as not of significance, as a source of nourishment? • Today's suggested practice: Day 13 of this month's practice, to practice to receive (see my