July 2022 “WE WERE MADE FOR THESE TIMES… Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at...
I invite you to bring Beginner’s Mind to your practice and to your life this month. What would it be like if you didn’t have to get it right? If you didn’t have to be perfect? What if you allowed yourself to be a beginner, to make mistakes, without self-judgement and self-criticism? What if you could approach anything from a place of being brand new?
The longer I teach and practice yoga, the gentler my teaching and practice become. I tell my yoga friends, “pretty soon we will just be doing Savasana for 90 minutes!” That might be an exaggeration, but for me (and for many teachers I know), there is a broader movement towards...
I was recently reading through some of my past blog posts, and I came across one that I wrote right...
I’ve meditated at the pool with my kids, believe it or not. (Don’t worry—they are old enough to swim on their own, around lifeguards.) Several times this summer, I was at the wading pool and sat quietly in the water. Closing my eyes, listening to the water falling around me, the sounds of the water splashing, feeling the sunlight warm on my eyelids. Swaying gently when other kids are running in the water around me. I’ve meditated at the wave pool, and it’s a beautiful image now, the ruffled waves coming into and crashing, the pull of the water as it receded. I’ve even taken time to meditate on the ferry. Those seconds stretch into minutes, the minutes into time without measure.
“It takes boldness, even audacity, to step out of our habitual patterns and experiment with a quality like kindness – to work with it and see just how it might shift and open up our lives.” – Sharon Salzberg Mindfulness for me is like a grand experiment in...
“I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.” Mark Twain As I went...
What a year this has been. And yet, I find we are adapting. In my house, we have adapted to work and school...
June 2020 “It is the willingness to offer our best, claim responsibility for our worst, and fold it into the continuous moment-to-moment practice of simply being present to what is that promises to deliver our future.” Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Radical Dharma Picking up my phone to read the news the...
So, we have been hard at work over the last weeks in preparations for welcoming you back into the studios...
Erin and I have been collectively running Source Yoga for almost ten years sharing yoga, friendship, and business together. We...
January 2022 “Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.” – Etty Hillesum Why do you practice yoga? For me, a few different answers arise in response to this question. My yoga asana practice offers me the gift of knowing and being...
