Photo courtesy of Liz Gill Where can you pause? For me, it started in the fall. I had just dropped...
So, we have been hard at work over the last weeks in preparations for welcoming you back into the studios...
I completed my first yoga teacher training in September, 2000, at Ghost Rach, New Mexico. This was an intensive training, a few weeks in the desert, immersed in yoga and meditation. One of our last mornings, after a 5 am meditation, I stood outside, under a spectacular sky of stars,...
This holiday season, the words I kept repeating to myself were “good enough.” Good enough, as in, who needs perfect? I recently read Big Magic, by Elizabeth Gilbert, about living a creative life. In one section, she writes about her creative process
This Monday, I dropped my daughter off at her first day of kindergarten. Weeks before she stepped into her new...
Normally, I’d be all about the homework. I am one of those people who’s ridiculously happy to be a lifelong student. I have 2 grad school degrees, for goodness’ sake. I miss taking classes besides yoga. But I have to admit that the MBSR homework is a struggle.
April 2023 “This is one way of speaking about mindfulness, or being present: coming home to ourselves. When we bring...
February, 2023 “The heart opens. The heart closes. This is the systole and diastole of human life. We may...
Hello Source friends, Have you picked up the newly printed Source Yoga Journal? This is a collaboration between me, Tamiko Nimura, who brought her skilled editing, Burcu Koleli, who brought her amazing design expertise, and a few other community members who generously shared their essays, art, poetry, and thoughtfulness in...
August 2020 I learned a new word recently – a word that perfectly described something I was doing that...
When we first begin to meditate, we might notice that there is very little space inside our minds. It might...
Today is a day off for me. I worked all weekend, leading Yoga Teacher Training. One of my self-care practices is to take Mondays off after teaching on the weekend. After dropping the kids off at school, the whole day loomed ahead of me…the sun was shining, not a cloud...