Author: Kris Evans

Recently I have been having a hard time feeling secure. Secure in my relationships, my job, and my life. The world is pretty crazy right now on so many levels and I believe this has something to do with me feeling so unsettled. What I thought was going to be a smooth transition into slowing down has not been possible. I am determined to create more space in my life and teach more. Continue reading →

Nothing is more frightening to me that change. Nothing. And yet I look for it at every turn. I have never had a full-time job in all the years I’ve been in my profession. Six or seven months was probably the longest project I worked on. And I loved it. But recently the change has been more and more in me not my job. I have not been satisfied with what has been around me. I have started to look for silence in a world that seems to be constantly chattering. The verbal, the sound of typing from the computer, the TV, the traffic or whatever it is I am in the middle of at the moment. More and more I am looking toward the sound of my breathing during meditation or yoga. That inner peace that doesn’t want or need to change. Continue reading →

Patience has always been a tough one for me. I mean really tough. Even just getting in a car to drive somewhere can make me crazy. Nothing seems to be moving fast enough. Even with all of the obvious things I’ve done. Meditation, yoga (I mean, forty years of yoga!), running, breathing, listening to music. Even talking to myself. But that voice in my head and the anxiousness in my body sometimes seems to cast all good intentions to the wind. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t like being impatient. I don’t like being around me when I lose my patience. I have really tried to understand why I let things get to me. Why all of it should be so important. Why I should be able to see the humor in my silly behavior.
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