It was damp and cool when I woke up, one of the first mornings that really felt like fall. I...
September 2023 I have been really enjoying the end of summer. Mine is a late August birthday, so I try...
August, 2023 I’ll keep this short and sweet, and I promise not to talk about fall too much yet – we still have several weeks of summer left! In fact, I invite you to savor summer with Lori’s upcoming Lavender Farm Day Retreat, and…file away in the back of your...
July 2023 “You do not have to do just one more thing before you will be worthy of the refuge...
June, 2023 Creativity and Renewal: Summer Retreat with Erin Joosse Harmony Hill Retreat Center July 22nd-24th For more than...
May, 2023 As a yoga instructor who has been teaching since I was 25, and who prefers a slow and gentle pace of movement, I have often been younger than many of the students in my classes. At times, I have been the youngest in the room by a couple of decades....
April 2023 “This is one way of speaking about mindfulness, or being present: coming home to ourselves. When we bring...
March 2023 Yoga is a practice of embodiment. Which makes perfect sense to most of us when much of our...
February, 2023 “The heart opens. The heart closes. This is the systole and diastole of human life. We may imagine that we want our hearts to stay open, but full-hearted generosity – with others and with ourselves – is all-inclusive. It is not a command. It is an invitation...
January, 2023 In January, I usually write some version of my (gentle) rant against the “New Year, New You” marketing that...
December, 2022 “Doing those deeply unfashionable things – slowing down, letting your spare time expand, getting enough sleep, resting –...
November 2022 It’s a roller coaster, isn’t it – being alive during this time? It’s true that things are always changing, uncertain, unpredictable. But it does feel like we are in a time where SO MANY things are precarious all at once. It is a time that is...