by Havi Brooks | Apr 22, 2016 | my personal practice
Reflecting on both the hard and the good in the week that was… Hello, week: we are here. {a breath for being here when we get here} Thank you, week! This is the 404th week in a row we are chickening here together! Or “checking in”, if you prefer to...
by Havi Brooks | Aug 1, 2012 | stuff I think about
Hmm. I do not remember when this was. Twelve years ago? That seems about right. Summer. On the beach. Maybe 6pm, going on 7. Warm, sun-drenched. But not heat in the way that afternoon is heat. Sitting in the sand. Watching the water. The best water, because this is...
by Havi Brooks | Dec 7, 2011 | stuff I think about
This would be about eight or nine years ago. I’m not sure exactly — time is being slippery that way. I worked as a yoga teacher in a studio in a northern suburb of Tel Aviv. The studio occasionally sponsored workshops by various famous teachers, and this...
by Havi Brooks | Mar 2, 2011 | not hating on yourself
It’s story time today. Ten years ago this May. I don’t want to write about this. And definitely not in the mood to go into all the details. So. Ignoring the mechanisms, the how and why of my world falling apart, some relevant pieces: In May of...
by Havi Brooks | Nov 18, 2010 | calm techniques
The other day, Kris asked how I’d managed to not go into my victim stuff while getting pulled out of the line again at the airport. It’s complicated. And it’s worth a few posts, but in order to talk about it, I need to explain about safe rooms. A...
