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 –...
July 2023 “You do not have to do just one more thing before you will be worthy of the refuge that is rest…You were born. You breathe. The first inhale certified you as worthy of rest.” ~ Octavia Raheem Octavia Raheem is a Restorative Yoga Teacher and author...
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...
April 2023 “This is one way of speaking about mindfulness, or being present: coming home to ourselves. When we bring our mind back to our body, we come home. We could consider this state as our true home. This home inside of us is a home no one can take...
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...
January, 2023 In January, I usually write some version of my (gentle) rant against the “New Year, New You” marketing that we see everywhere, but this year I can’t seem to muster the energy. Let me give you the TL;DR version – you are enough as you are, and there is no resolution...
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...
October 2022 Recently I read 2 novels that were written since the start of the pandemic. I recommend both – The Sentence by Louise Erdrich, and Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout. Two very different books, both by Pulitzer prize winning authors, recreating the early days, months, and the...
