March 2023 Yoga is a practice of embodiment. Which makes perfect sense to most of us when much of our...
Only a week later, my inner yoga teacher shows up again; she too, has gone on retreat. She reminds me of the definition of the word mindful, as used by Jon Kabat-Zinn, the originator of MBSR in the West. Mindfulness is about paying attention in a non-judgmental way. I can pay attention mindfully, I like to think. I have a much harder time paying attention without judgment. So my inner yoga teacher says: What if your discomfort isn’t something for you to analyze away? What if you don’t need to do anything about your discomfort? What if you just noticed it?
I was recently reading through some of my past blog posts, and I came across one that I wrote right after the holidays a couple of years ago. It was about a practice I took on that holiday season of things being “good enough.” Here’s an excerpt from the post:...
December, 2022 “Doing those deeply unfashionable things – slowing down, letting your spare time expand, getting enough sleep, resting –...
Beautiful views and lush gardens framed our summer Harmony Hill Retreat – join me for our fall retreat – learn...
Over the years, I have had students ask me if we would offer a Yoga Teacher Training at Source Yoga, and my answer was always no, not right now. And it was a clear no. It was actually more of a no way. I was 100% clear that was not...
November 10th, 2021 My biggest wish for you and for me during this holiday season is to have it be...
November 2nd, 2020 There has been a tension in my belly most days this last couple of weeks. A jitteriness, a tightness in my...
May 2020 As we are facing this global pandemic and its impact on all areas of life, I have been thinking about resiliency. For most of us, this is one of the most difficult things we have collectively faced. It takes a lot of resiliency to get through the day to day, through the stress that we are...
A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece about 5 reasons I love to slow down in my yoga practice. There are many different ways we come home to ourselves in our yoga practice, and each person’s practice is uniquely their own. What I love about yoga may not be what you love about yoga, so I wanted to get the voices of some other yoga practitioners about what they love. I started by inviting Source teacher Kristin Davidson to share her “5 reasons…”
I am very new to yoga and still have so much to learn. Yoga is still very challenging for me,...
By Kate Fontana, Source Yoga community member and teacher Dear Friends, What do you do with a holiday once you realize it’s racist? I’ve sought to deepen into sacred days and seasons by looking with a kind and critical eye at the traditions and “sacred” things of my family,...