Give Yourself a Break and Make Your Best Friend Your Meditation

July 17, 2018 by Sarah Nattrass in Reflections

As many of you know, the fundamental goal of meditation is to keep you focused on the present moment. This way you can be free from regret about the past or anxiety about the future, and you can just BE. Ideally, the people and noise and distractions around you slowly fade away so that you can maintain sole focus on your breath or mantra or whatever else you've decided to make your focal point for the exercise. Easy, right?

Changing Lives with a Little Passion and Perseverance

November 14, 2017 by Sarah Nattrass in Reflections

Last year, a few months into my new role of Admissions Associate at my old boarding school, I realized that I was feeling totally disconnected from the study body. There I was, surrounded by hundreds of teenagers, yet my job in administration provided no direct interaction with any them. The students had no institutional reason to be in contact with me, yet I so desired to engage with them.