November! AKA best month

Dear Ones,

Well, I'm a week into November, doing a November-themed newsletter, but given that it is my birthday month (Nov 30!), I just had to give this beauty of a month her due. Growing up in LA, November was the windiest month, when fall weather started with just the barest nip in the air. Now living on the East coast, it is COLD and the leaves are exploding off the trees in the colors so vibrant, I walk around in near-continual awe and amazement and delight. I mean, check out these babies:

WHAT I'M READING

--> Aside from two books about book promotion (thinking ahead), I am re-reading Koshin Paley Ellison's beautiful book, Untangled, in anticipation of hosting him for my new series on Youtube, Dharma and Desire. It is such a stunner. Check out these verses,

"What I need for my own body is attention. I need to learn how to slow down and actually feel into my own body. Lying on the floor and moving and getting curious and seeing what it needed - this was a way of getting interested. One of my teachers used to say "interesting" comes from "to be between," which is really beautiful."

--> I'm also ALWAYS reading and loving Jessica Angima's monthly newsletter, Slowly, Slowly on substack. I recently hosted Jessica for Dharma and Desire and you MUST listen to our conversation to feel the magic of the erotic light you up through the screen. Jessica's substack is a poem, an gentle investigation, and a sense-bath, all rolled into one.

WHAT I'M LISTENING TO

--> I'm always interested in the subject of time, and how we get it so very wrong, so much of the time, leading to so much suffering. My friend James sent me this podcast episode on the subject and it is SO. GOOD.

--> Speaking of time, this is such a pretty song: All in Good Time by Iron and Wine and Fiona Apple

--> The amazing Yoni Stadlin shared the slogan (that maybe he made up?): "The ISness is my BIZness" this past weekend, and all I can say is, YES.

How about you? How are you meeting this moment in time? What is lighting you up this November?

Love,

Yael

PS: I'm so excited to invite those of you in the NYC area to my conversation and workshop with the amazing Dr. Sheikh Faiyaz Jaffer: Goals with Soul, on November 17 at 5:30pm at NYU. Would love to see you there!

Yael Shy is the CEO and Founder of Sefira Wellness with over two decades of supporting others in uncovering their inherent worth and capacity for deep joy through mindfulness. She is the author of the award-winning book What Now? Meditation for Your Twenties and Beyond (Parallax, 2017) and teaches at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service. You can find her on Instagram at @yaelshy1.

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