Feathered Pipe

08/07/2025

The Feathered Pipe season is still in full swing! We have a range of fun, fulfilling, and challenging retreats coming up-

Check out the link below for more details 🌲✨

Book your dream yoga retreat and mindfulness, health and wellness travel experience at North America’s finest retreat center deep in the heart of Big Sky Montana's pristine nature.

08/07/2025

The reason I was able to reframe the energy problem was there was no place you could study it. And I didn’t know that much about it, so I had nothing to unlearn. Therefore, I was able to practice, and I’ve cultivated ever since, what in Eastern tradition is called Beginner’s Mind, Original Mind, Child’s Mind—where you let go of all assumptions and preconceptions, and therefore can take a completely fresh view. In those days, for example, the energy problem was thought to be, “Where do we get more energy? More of any kind from any source at any price.” I started, instead, at the other end by asking, “What do you want energy for?”

Physicist Amory Lovins is Cofounder and Chairman Emeritus of Rocky Mountain Institute, an independent, non-partisan, nonprofit organization working to transform the global energy system to secure a clean, prosperous, zero-carbon future.

08/06/2025

“And what you do is you just start flipping and taking what you’re given and start to work with it. In other words, your karma defines your dharma. That means what you got is what you work with. I mean, like, my baldness is my karma. I mean, it’s my genetics, it’s everything. Now, it becomes my dharma. Now, I can use it in order to become free of being bald, or being not bald, or whatever.” – Ram Dass

In this recording from a 1992 retreat, Ram Dass talks about dealing with change, using the stuff of your daily ... More...

08/06/2025

"Where the bluebirds call,
And the sunbeams fall,
And the daisies lure,
The soul to be pure."
-Alexander Posey

📸Keith Levit

08/06/2025

"Because our body is always in the present moment, we stop thinking when we anchor our mind in our body. You can pick where to anchor your awareness, such as in the flow of your breath or in what your hands are experiencing right now. When you’re showering, anchor in the sensation of the water hitting your skin. When you’re gardening, anchor in the feeling of your hands touching dirt, stems, leaves, roots.

When you’re driving, you can come back to the constantly changing vibrations of the tires as they ride along the road. Are you safer driving a car while thinking about problems at home, at work, or in the world, or are you safer if your mind is clear and your awareness wide?"

Jan Chozen Bays explores the essence of mindfulness—what it is, how to practice it, and the transformative power of unifying body, heart, and mind.

08/04/2025

Baba ganoush is a sumptuous, savory, creamy, and smokey dish- Try out our Feathered Pipe spin on this classic!

Baba ganoush is a sumptuous, savory, creamy, and smokey dish. The basis of baba ganoush is just a few simple ingredients: roasted eggplant, tahini, olive oil, lemon juice, and salt.

08/04/2025

"Read your way from one sympathy to another… Follow your own intuitive feeling about what you need."

Born in Iran and raised in Zimbabwe, Doris Lessing (October 22, 1919–November 17, 2013) was fourteen when she dropped out of school and eighty-eight when she won the Nobel Prize for smelting …

08/02/2025

When we show up to our yoga mats, it is easy to feel the profound benefits from our practice. The more challenging task is to carry the insights gained on the mat with us into our hurried lives.

So often the rigor of our day to day schedules leaves us with little time to reflect on how we are spending our precious energy. For many of us it is hard to create space for this reflection but the clarity it brings is immeasurable.

On this retreat, set amidst Montana’s majestic Rocky mountains, we will practice daily vinyasa yoga, meditation, group inquiry, and additional workshops that support mindful living . Join for a week of rest, renewal, and exploration of what it means to "be here now."

Find out more about On and Off The Mat from August 23-29 here: https://featheredpipe.com/feathered_retreats/lauren-lewis-yoga-practice-mindful-living-2025/

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08/01/2025

So much community across generations gathered for the 50th anniversary, filling many hearts with joy, love, gratitude, and a deep sense of connection that words can’t ever fully convey. These next few weeks will have many a many photo dumps from the 50th and what better way to begin than with all the amazing people who came to celebrate? Huge Huge thank you to for all these amazing photos and memories captured in stills Can’t wait to share more✨

08/01/2025

"How can we find compassion for our darker corners?

Lauren Lewis, walks listeners through her journey navigating an eating disorder while learning to cook from the heart as a nutritionist and chef, guiding others to healing as a yogi, feeling at home in her body through dance and wake surfing, and how she seeks out love and self-compassion."

Lauren will be at Feathered Pipe from August 23-29 for On and Off the Mat! Find out more here: https://featheredpipe.com/feathered_retreats/lauren-lewis-yoga-practice-mindful-living-2025/

On The Ampersand, we love to highlight stories of people who bring together their widest interests, research and making. In most cases, these disparate facets of being shine from our brightest sides—but how can we find compassion for our darker corners? Today’s guest, Lauren Lewis, walks listene...

08/01/2025

"It is not strange that the sweetest moment in any life, pleasant or dreary, should be when Nature draws near to it, and, taking up her neglected instrument, plays a fragment of some ancient melody, long unheard on the earth… Nature has at times this peculiar effect on us, restoring instantaneously the old vanished harmony between organism and environment."

It must be encoded there, in the childhood memories of our synapses and our cells — how we came out of the ocean 35 trillion yesterdays ago, small and slippery, gills trembling with the shock…

07/30/2025

"When we spread our awareness to the body parts that don’t seem to be crucial in any given pose, we discover how seemingly minor and usually forgotten alignment details can transform a pose, and—more crucially—can also transform your mental experience of that pose, that moment.

In this way, your yoga practice becomes a laboratory in which to practice reducing your reactivity. And with enough practice, your growing ability to be less reactive will spill over into the rest of your life."

Our minds have the tendency to be overly reactive, to zero in on what appears to be the most pressing thing at any given moment, to the exclusion of everything else.