Last Friday, I took my camera on an adventure to the Magic Lantern Festival near McCormick Place in Chicago. For months I had been driving past these boldly colored larger...
Yesterday was the last class in my latest series of Contemplative Photography classes taught in Berkeley. The students made some wonderful work and discoveries as we explored the different elements...
I gave my sister, a fellow writer, a chapter draft from the interactive book I am writing on contemplative art practice, to read this weekend. She pointed out what she...
I spent this afternoon with fellow contemplative photographers wandering around the Sunday brunch scene on 4th Street in Berkeley. While most folks were busy eating, shopping and schmoozing, I settled...
The Stress of Achievement Orientation I’ve been working on a marketing program for two weeks now to find new clients. In the program we are encouraged to set a goal...
Sunday afternoon I took a walk around Old Oakland, near Manifesta Salon on Broadway, where I will be leading a two Sunday workshop later this month. I had camera in...
It began with the afternoon light on an orchid, this practice of looking. I felt as fragile as this flower just two weeks after my heart surgery. I was captivated...
“In a sense, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s work as an artist was among the most revolutionary parts of his teaching. He truly believed that art can change the world. In this...
This past weekend I attended a Level II – Miksang program at the Shambhala Meditation Center in San Francisco, led by the director of Nalanda Miksang, Miriam Hall. In 2007,...
We go through life so often caught in our own story, filtering out anything that does not confirm our view of our world. But as I tell my students, our...
The_Beauty_of_Impermanence_sound from Rebekah Younger on Vimeo. I created this video to demonstrate how to format slideshows in Adobe Lightroom for one of my classes, using recent work. I am...
The Diagnosis – January 12, 2016 So last Monday I received a call from the neurologist’s office saying they had a cancellation and could see me that afternoon. My wait...
